Transcript Film Study

Film Study
Camera Shots
Low Angle Shot
The camera looks
up at the subject.
• This makes the
subject seem
important, powerful
or larger than the
viewer.
High Angle Shot
The camera looks
down on the
subject.
This makes it look
smaller – gives the
audience a sense
of power or the
subject a sense of
hopelessness.
Eye Level Angle
The audience sees
things from the
characters eye level.
It makes them feel
more comfortable.
Over the Shoulder Shot
The camera shoots
from behind a
character’s
shoulder, and is
used mostly during
conversations.
Allows the audience
to feel more
involved.
Establishing Shot
(Extreme Long Shot)
Contains a lot of
landscape and gives
important
information about
the setting and
atmosphere at the
beginning of a
scene.
Long Shot
Contains a lot of
landscape or
background and
figures in the scene
are recognisable as
being human, male
or female.
Medium Shot
Person is seen from
the waist up.
If there are two
people in a shot it is
called a ‘two shot’,
three people are a
‘three shot’.
Close Up
Contains no
background,
focuses on the
entire object or a
persons head and
shoulders.
It may reveal human
emotions or private
information.
Extreme Close Up
Focuses on one thing in great detail, it
is even closer than a close up.
DIAGETIC SOUND
A sound that other characters would be able to
hear.
For example: A song on a radio, for instance,
as a character drives down the highway,
would be a diegetic sound, as would someone
coughing audibly during a scene.
NON-DIAGETIC SOUND
Any voice, musical passage or sound effect
that comes from outside the world of the
movies;
For example: like background music, for
instance or a voice over.
If the characters can't hear the sound, it's nondiegetic.
Time to test how much you
remember…
Close Up
Establishing
Shot
or
Extreme Long
Shot
High Angle
Shot
(close up)
Long Shot
Low Angle
Shot
(close up)
Medium Shot
Low Angle
Shot
(close up)
Establishing
Shot
or
Extreme Long
Shot
Long Shot
High Angle
(long) Shot
Long Shot
Over-theshoulder
shot