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  2. Medium shot - Wikipedia

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    Medium shots are divided into singles (a waist-high shot of one actor), group shots, over-the shoulders or two-shots (featuring two people). [6] A medium wide shot, or American shot, shows a bit more of the background but is still close enough for facial expressions to be seen, although these facial expressions would be better seen in a waist-high shot.

  3. Camera coverage - Wikipedia

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    After the master shot is taken, a medium shot from the same angle is photographed. The editor can cut back and forth between the two shots. The cut-in or cut-out helps to cover the edit when dialogue is edited out ("compressed"), can be used by the director or editor to choose the best performance by an actor, and can even serve as a form of ...

  4. Cinematic techniques - Wikipedia

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    A shot in which the frame encompasses two people, typically but not exclusively a medium shot. Whip pan A type of pan shot in which the camera pans so quickly that the resulting image is badly blurred. It is sometimes used as an editorial transition and is also known as a swish pan or "flash pan." Whip zoom

  5. Camera angle - Wikipedia

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    Then is the medium shot which emphasizes the character and is about a knees to waist up type shot. Then the medium close up is a shot that has the waist to the chest and up. The next closest shot is the close up which has the shoulders and up or maybe a little tighter on the head. Finally, there is the extreme close up shot which has one body ...

  6. Shot (filmmaking) - Wikipedia

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    the long shot or wide shot (often used as an establishing shot), that shows the environment around the subjects, the full shot, where the entirety of the subject is just visible within the frame, the medium-long shot, where the frame ends near the knees, the medium shot, where the frame stops either just above or just below the waist,

  7. Screen direction - Wikipedia

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    As an example of screen direction in use, if an actor is shown in one shot walking from screen left to screen right and then is shown in the next shot to be moving in the opposite direction (screen right to screen left), the audience will assume that the actor has changed direction and is walking back to where he started (in the absence of ...

  8. Tracking shot - Wikipedia

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    A tracking shot is a blanket term used to refer to any camera shot with movement, with "trucking shot" and "dolly shot" being tracking shot variations. Generally, a "dolly shot" refers to a specific variation of tracking shot in which the camera moves forwards or backwards with respect to the subject.

  9. Shaky camera - Wikipedia

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    Photograph of a tree, sun, and grass while deliberately shaking the camera. Shaky camera, [1] shaky cam, [2] jerky camera, queasy cam, [3] run-and-gun [4] or free camera [4] is a cinematographic technique where stable-image techniques are purposely dispensed with shaking.