Eduqas GCSE Film Studies · C670

Cinematography: shots, angles and camera movement

Film form

What you need to know

Shot types from extreme close-up to extreme long shot, and what each typically shows and makes us feel.
Camera angles (high, low, canted, aerial) and camera movement (pan, tilt, tracking, dolly, hand-held and Steadicam), with their usual meanings.
How cinematography presents characters and settings and guides our response, with examples from the set films.
Writing about a shot precisely: naming the technique, describing the example and explaining its effect.