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  2. 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 ...

  3. Shot (filmmaking) - Wikipedia

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    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, the medium close-up, where more of the shoulder is visible than in the close-up, the close-up, where the shoulder line is visible, the extreme close-up, where the frame stops at the subject's chin and ...

  4. Medium shot - Wikipedia

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    Medium shots are also used when the subject in the shot is delivering information, such as news presenters. [2] It is also used in interviews. [3] It is the most common shot in movies, [6] [7] and it usually follows the first establishing shots of a new scene or location. [7] A normal lens that sees what the human eye sees [8] is usually used ...

  5. Close-up - Wikipedia

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    An extreme close-up from the 1901 short film The Big Swallow. There are various degrees of close-up depending on how tight (zoomed in) the shot is. The terminology varies between countries and even different companies, but in general, these are: Medium Close Up ("MCU" on camera scripts): Halfway between a mid shot and a close-up. Usually covers ...

  6. Glossary of motion picture terms - Wikipedia

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    Also called a 3/4 shot. A translation of a phrase from French film criticism, plan américain, which refers to a medium-long ("knee") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera. The usual arrangement is for the actors to stand in an irregular line from one side of the screen to the other, with the ...

  7. Cinematic techniques - Wikipedia

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    Extreme close-up A shot framed so closely as to show only a portion of the face or of some object. Extreme long shot A shot in which the human figure would be extremely insignificant compared to its surroundings. A panoramic view photographed from a considerable distance and made up essentially of landscape or distant background. Fade in/out

  8. Proxemics - Wikipedia

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    Analysis of camera proxemics typically relates Hall's system of proxemic patterns to the camera angle used to create a specific shot, with the long shot or extreme long shot becoming the public proxemic, a full shot (sometimes called a figure shot, complete view, or medium long shot) becoming the social proxemic, the medium shot becoming the ...

  9. Wide shot - Wikipedia

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    An extreme wide shot in the trailer to the 1963 film Cleopatra gives an expansive view of the set.. In photography, filmmaking and video production, a wide shot (sometimes referred to as a full shot or long shot) is a shot that typically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings. [1]