1. Assignment 3: CAM SAMC
Noor Naoum
12 Stephen

2. Low shot
A low angled shot is a shot
positioned vertically on the
ground and is tilted upwards.
This makes the object appear
bigger which shows it is either
powerful or large.

3. Establishing shot
An establishing shot is a shot
which includes the whole area
such as buildings, cars etc.

4. Long shot
A long shot is a shot taken
from a distance to show
how large the building is.
Long shots could be taken
for flowers, buildings, cars
etc.

5. Close up
A close up is a type of shot
which frames a person or
an object. Close ups are
mainly used alongside of
medium shots and long
shots.

6. Extreme close up
Extreme Close Up is a shot
that is so tight and close that
only the small detail could be
seen in the object such as the
middle of the flower.

7. Medium close up
Medium Close Up
lies half way
between a mid
shot and a close-up
shot. Usually the
medium close up
tends to cover the
subject's head and
shoulders.

8. High shot
A high angle shot is
usually taken from
above. In movies or
pictures the high
shot represents
that object as
being vulnerable,
innocent and small.

9. Wide shot
A wide shot shows large info
of the whole image. Like a
panoramic photo which
captures all of the scene.

10. POV (point of view)
Shows the persons point of
view in the image. E.g. Hands
are showing whilst riding a bike
and filming. So this portrays the
photographers point of view.

11. Over the shoulder
This implies that 1/3 of the opposite is
showing and the main focus is on the
opposite person. The persons head and
shoulder is blurred so that the main
focus would be on the opposite person.

12. Two shot
A two shot camera angle
contains two people in
the same scene. These
two characters could be
having a conversation or
even arguing.

13. Over head shot
An overhead shot is
from a birds eye view
where the camera is
positioned above a
person or an object.

14. Canted/oblique
Camera angle that makes a shot
appear tilted which would allow
the audience to tilt their heads
slightly.

15. pan
A source of panorama is used to
capture the whole scene so the camera
movement is coordinated with the
movement of the body

16. Tilt
A tilt Is an image or a scene which
is slightly tilted. This would allow
the viewers to also tilt, so this
engages the viewers.

17. Track
A track is used to
move around the
scene with the
characters moving. Its
called a track because
the camera is moving
on a track whilst the
camera is in a steady
position.

18. Zoom
A zoom moves in onto the
object or person who the
main focus is on and slightly
blurs the background to
represent this focus.

19. Reverse zoom
A reverse zoom is a zoom out
which doesn’t have a main focus
all of what's captured is focused
on.

20. Dolly
A dolly is used for the movement of the
camera. The tripod is placed onto it and the
dolly could be pushed anywhere around
whilst the camera is steadily positioned on
the tripod.

21. Crane
An overhead crane is used to
show an over head view of the
scene. This would show the
detail in the scene and the
amount of people/objects.

22. Steadicam
The Steadicam stabilises
the camera in place it is
shown as a smooth shot
and moves smoothly
with the focus’
movement. It is used
when a tripod cannot be
used at a high angle so
this will keep it steady.

23. Symmetry
Symmetry is when
both sides are
symmetrically
equal. This building
is equal because
both sides of it are
the same.

24. Asymmetry
When the two sides are not
equally symmetrical. (they
don’t look the same) this is
called asymmetry.

25. Rule of thirds
The rule of thirds is a table which
measures out the way the image is
viewed. This is supposed to portray
that the scenes objects are almost
equally in line.

26. Depth of field
Depth of field is the distance
between the nearest and the
furthest objects that mainly show
a focus on the camera.

27. Shallow focus
A shallow focus mainly
focuses on the object and
blurs the rest of the
background. The focus
could be on one character
in front of the camera. The
focus could also be on
people standing in the
background and person in
front of the camera is
blurred out.

28. Deep focus
Everything has an importance in
this picture because everything is
focused.

29. Focus pulls
Focus pulls maintains image
sharpness in order for the
image to stand out