Shot types

Establishing/Wide shot

A wide shot would usually be shot using a 35mm (wide angle) lens. It would usually depict some form of landscape or wider setting and is used to inform the audience as to where the film of clip is set and give the characters and the storyline a context. 'Set the scene'

Over the shoulder shot

In film an over the shoulder shot is a shot of someone or something taken form the perspective or camera angle from the shoulder of another person. The back of the shoulder and head of this person is used to frame the image of whatever the camera is pointing toward. This type of shit is very common when two characters are having a discussion and will usually follow an establishing shot which helps the audience place the characters in their setting.

Point of view shot

 A point of view shot is a short film scene that shows what a character is looking at. It is usually established by being positioned between a shot of a character looking at something and a shot showing the characters reaction

Close up

A close up is a type of shot which tightly frames a person or an object. Close ups are one of the most standard shots, used regularly with medium shot and ong shots. Close ups display the most detail, but they do not include the broader scene. Moving on to a close p or a way from a close up is a common type of zooming.

Two shot 

A two shot is a shot in which the camera captures a view of two people (The subjects)/ The subjects do not have to be next to each other, and there are many common to shots which have one subjects in the foreground and the other subjects in the background.

There are many types of shots, these are just a few.




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Meaning

Meaning is created by through the choice of camera shot but also by how a shot is constructed. Using the features of a shot: depth, framing and composition  a director can create a set meaning that the audience feels and dictates the way in which they respond.

 In our first media lesson we learnt all the key words you need to use when talking about different shots. We then put what we had learnt into our own picture. Me and Chloe were given this picture from shawshank redemption and our task was to recreate it as best we could. when reacting this shot there was a lot of things we had to take into consideration e.g. the meaning of the shot, the focus, framing and composition. We decided that we thought the meaning do the shot was a mixture of desperation, freedom and weakness, so we tried to create these meanings in our own picture. As you can see the focus of the image is on the boy, the background is soft and he is in sharp, this is the same in our picture. I think we captured the depth of the image quite well (depth of an image is the distance between the subject and the lense). In the original picture from shawshank redemption the depth is very deep as is the depth of our picture. The composition is very plain, in the shot there is just the boy and the floor, no other objects or props.