Camera shots.

Camera shots

• Extreme long shot: A extreme long shot is usually taken from quite far away and is used to set the scene. It will more often than not be showing an exterior such as a landscape or outside of a building, these scenes do not really show to much detail as they are more about given a general impression rather than showing specific information.   

• Long shot: A long shot shows the audience the character from head to toe. Even though the main focus of this shot is on the character there is still usually a fair amount of background detail.     

• Medium shot: A medium shot shows a character from then waist up and is normally used during dialogue scenes. There are two variations of this shot, these are a two shot and a three shot containing two or three people anymore than this then it is usually known as a long shot. There is not a lot of detail in this shot as the location has probably already be established in another scene.

• Close up: A close up shot shows very little if any background and usually focusing on a face or a specific object, anything other than the main focus of the scene is blurred. This shot shows the focus of things for example the expression on a characters face or important information on a document.

• Extreme close up: This shot magnifies beyond what the human eye can see. An extreme close up may be of a characters face and would only show their eyes or mouth and has no background what so ever. This shot is used for dramatic effect.