Ultimate Guide to Camera Shots: Every Shot Size Explained [The Shot List, Ep 1]
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This video explains nine essential film shot sizes from establishing shots to extreme close-ups, detailing their storytelling purposes and compositional rules with examples from various movies.
From the video
Answers: What are the different film shot sizes and how do you use them?
- Establishing shot
- Master shot
- Wide shot
- Full shot
- Medium full shot
- Medium shot
- Medium close-up
- Close-up
- Extreme close-up
What it concludes
- An establishing shot is crucial for establishing geography, time of day, scale, and transitioning between scenes.
- A master shot confirms the location, geography, and spatial relationships of characters in a scene.
- A wide shot positions subjects far from the camera to visually represent their relationship to their environment.
- A full shot is composed head-to-toe to communicate a subject's physicality and posture.
- A medium full shot frames subjects from the top of the head to just below the waist, often called a cowboy shot.
- A medium shot captures subjects from the waist to above the head, providing a neutral framing similar to real-life interactions.
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