Camera distances and angles
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The document discusses camera distances and angles used in filmmaking. It defines various camera distances from extreme long shots, which show the entire environment, to extreme close-ups, which isolate small details. It also identifies different camera angles like eye level, low-angle, and high-angle shots. The purpose is to understand how camera distance and angle can be used to achieve different expressive effects in shots.
Camera distances and angles
- 2. Subject- Camera Distance in Days of Heaven
- 3. The human body is the measure of subject- camera distance. What matters: The expressive results of (apparent) camera distance on screen.
- 4. Extreme Long Shot (environment dominates)
- 6. Long Shot (figure can be seen in context)
- 7. Medium Long Shot (knees to head)
- 9. Medium Shot (waist to head)
- 10. Medium Close-up (shoulders and head)
- 12. Close-up
- 13. Extreme Close-up (isolates a small detail)
- 14. Camera Angle and Height in Days of Heaven 14
- 15. Eye Level
- 16. Low-Angle
- 17. High-Angle
- 18. Bird’s-Eye View
- 20. Dutch Angle / Dutch Tilt / Canted Angle
- 21. Point of view
- 22. Notorious Quiz Identify the subject-camera distance and camera angle. What is the expressive effect of camera distance and angle in each shot?
Editor's Notes
- #5: Extreme long shot (XLS) – establishing shot, wide view of a location.
- #6: Extreme long shot (XLS) – person not recognizable (except from context)
- #7: Long shot (LS) – full body and some of the surroundins.
- #8: Medium long shot (MLS) – from the knees up, often used for two characters in conversation.
- #9: MLS
- #10: Medium shot (MS) – waist up, proximity without intimacy.
- #11: Medium close-up (MCU)
- #12: Close up (CU)
- #13: Close-up (CU)
- #14: Extreme close-up (XCU)
- #16: Eye-level. Normal.