| A | B |
|---|
| CLOSE UP | Head and shoulders are in the frame. Used if the director wants to focus our attention on one particular thing. This is often character's facial expression |
| EXTREME CLOSE UP | Focuses the audience's attention on small details and these shots are often used more for artistic effect |
| LONG SHOT | Shows us the whole character |
| EXTREME WIDE SHOT | The view is so far from the subject that he isn't even visible. Often used as an establishing shot. |
| POINT OF VIEW | When we |
| MID SHOT | When we see the character from the waist up with partial view of the setting in the background. Used so we can focus on the dialogue between two characters |
| MEDIUM LONG SHOT | When we see the character from the knees up with partial view of the setting in the background |
| BIRDS EYE VIEW | When the camera looks down on settings of characters from high above. This shot does |
| LOW ANGLE SHOT | The camera is placed below a subject looking up |
| HIGH ANGLE SHOT | When the camera looks down on a person or object |
| OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT | Looking from behind a person at the subject. |
| TWO SHOT | A shot with two people |
| CANTED ANGLE | Sometimes the camera is tilted |
