Shots (Movie shot, Film shot)
by Milos Itic on February 6, 2011
Movie techniques – Shots
In film and movie, a Shot is a continuous strip of motion picture film, created of a series of frames, that runs for an uninterrupted period of time. Shots are generally filmed with a single camera and can be of any duration.
A shot in production, defined by the beginning and end of a capturing process, is equivalent to a clip in editing, defined as the continuous footage between two edits. Frames, shots, clips, scenes, and sequences form a hierarchy of units fundamental to many tasks in the creation of moving-image works. Shots are usually described in relation to a particular subject.
They are:
- Extreme wide (long) shot
- Very wide (long) shot
- Wide (long) shot
- Medium close up shot
- Close up shot
- Extreme close up (Italian shot)
- American shot
- Full shot
- Cut In shot
- Cutaway shot
- Two shots
- Over the shoulder shot
- Noddy shot
- Point of view shot (POV)
- Wheather shot
- Aerial shot
- Bird’s eye shot
- Worm’s eye shot
- Eye level shot
- High angle shot
- Low angle shot
- Master shot
- Freeze frame shot
- Insert shot
- Reverse shot
- Establishing shot
- Selective focus shot
- Soft focus shot
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