This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
Shot Sizes
Establishing Shot |
Establishes Geography, time and scale |
Master Shot |
Confirms location & Establishes chars. & relation |
Wide Shot (WS) |
Positions chars. far from cam |
Full Shot (FS) |
subject compleatly in frame |
Cowboy |
from head to just below their "holster" |
Medium shot (MS) |
from head to just below the chest |
Medium CloseUp (MCU) |
from head to mid chest |
CloseUp (CU) |
arrange around eye level |
Extreme CloseUp (ECU) |
Isolates single area of a subject e.g. eyes |
Framing
Single |
One Char. primary focus |
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Two Shot |
Two Char. both faces visiable |
N Shot |
N char. in fame |
Crowd Shot |
many chars. in frame |
Over the Shoulder (OTS) |
Over the shoulder; one char in focus |
Point of View (POV) |
From the view of one char. |
Insert shot |
Extremely tight on a detail |
Clean: Only the focus subject is visible
Dirty: Includes limited present from other chars.
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Camera Movment
Pan (left/right) (slow/wipe) |
Turn around the Y-axis |
Tilt (up/down) |
Turn around the X-axis |
pull out |
Move away from subject |
push in/forward |
Move towards the subject |
Zoom (in/out) |
Zoom! |
Crash Zoom |
Zoom but quicker |
The dolly |
movment on a track |
tracking/trucking |
Move along subject; Mostly on a track or cart |
Reverse dolly zoom |
zoom in, pull out/zoom out, push in |
Pedestal shot |
Vertical movement up/down |
Boom shot |
Same as Pedestal but with pan/titlt/zoom |
The Steadicam/Gimbl |
Stabilized movement from a camop |
Handheld |
Same as Steadicam but with shake |
Rack focus |
Move focus point |
Dutch Spin |
Move the camera around the Z-axis |
push in/pull out focus |
While pushing or pulling focus on subject |
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