Media Language- use of the camera

Basic Camera shots

• Extreme Long Shot (ELS/EST)- A view from a considerate far distance in which makes the person look as if they are small dots. The Majority of the time it is used as a scene-setting from a minimum of  a mile away.

• Long Shot-  A picture of scene of a person where the whole of the body, head to toe is displayed.

• Mid shot-  A shot which displays the waste to the top of the subject           

• Two Shot- A scene/photo which contains two people in the shot

• Close up- A closeup in still images, films and/or TV production is used to tightly frame a person or object which it is shooting.

• point of view (pov shot) - Brief film of what the character(the subject) is looking at.

• Extreme closeup- Although it is used to show extreme detail, It is not used to show general reactions or emotions except in dramatic scenes.

Basic Camera Movement

• Tracking (in/out)- a shot in which is moving along with the object it is recording. In high budget films the camera is put on a railroad and then pushed across to make it more steady.

• sideways tracking (crab)- Like tracking but the camera is instead moving sideways of the object.

• Tilt (up or down)- A camera shot is shot on a roll axis so that the spectacle is composed with vertical lines. It can only move up or down not sideways.

• Zoom-  The camera is zooming into the subject being filmed .In films this is normally used to create a dramatic scene or to capture somebodies emotions in more detail