There are basic camera shots/angles and movements that is used in most movies:
Camera Shots
Extreme Wide Shots : Acts to establish the area.
Wide Shots : show the entire person or area. They’re great for establishing the scene and allow for good action of the characters. Sometimes this is known as the long shot.
Medium Shots : Frame the subject from the waste up. This is the most common shot and allows for hand gestures and motion.
Medium Close Ups : Shots show the subject in more detail and are often framed from just below the shoulders to the top of the head.
Close Ups: Show a particular part of your subject. For people this usually means the shot frames just the head!
Extreme Close Ups : are much tighter close-up shots in which you get detail greater than the human eye might be able to normally perceive. An example of this shot might be of the mouth and eyes together
CAMERA ANGLES
1. The Bird's-Eye view
This shows a scene from directly overhead, a very unnatural and strange angle. Familiar objects viewed from this angle might seem totally unrecognisable at first. The bird's eye view shot allows audience's to feel powers as they are looking down on the action that is taking place. This can make characters look very Small in the eyes of the audience, therefore the audience can find a way to relate with the characters. Hitchcock alongside other directors like like Brian de Palma fonded this style of shot.
A cameraman, raised above the action, gets a high angle shot
2. High Angle
High Angle is not as extreme as a bird's eye view. The camera is elevated above the action using a crane to give a general overview of the action taking place. High angles make the object photographed seem smaller, and less significant or scary. This makes the objects or characters often look like they are getting swallowed up by the setting in which they are in and this allows them to become part of the wide picture within the setting.
3. Eye Level
The eye level is fairly neutral/normal shot; where the camera is positioned as though it is a human actually observing a scene sort of like a point of view shot, so that the actors' heads are in level with the main focus. The camera are always placed approximately five to six feet from the ground.
4. Low Angle
Low angles helps give a sense of confusion to the audience and also a scene of powerlessness within the action happen within the scene. The background of a low angle shot tends show just skies or ceilings, the lack of detail about the setting adding to the disorientation and confusion of the audience. The added height of the object or character in the scene, allows it to create a fearful image or thought thought the audience and may cause insecurity and uncomfortableness.
5. Oblique/Canted Angle
With a oblique/canted angle,sometimes the camera is tilted to show unbalance,transition and instability of the character in the scene. This technique is used to suggest point-of view shot, where the audienece xcan see thing in the perceptive of one particually character.
Camera Movement
1. Pans
A movement which scans a scene horizontally. The camera is placed on a tripod, which helps it to operates as a stationary axis point in which the camera can be turned. This movement is often used to follow a moving object which is kept in the middle of the frame, therefore the audience can clearly understand what they are looking at.
2. Tilts
A movement which scans a scene vertically, otherwise similar to a pan.
3. Dolly Shots
Dolly shots are sometimes called TRUCKING or TRACKING shots. The camera is placed on a moving vehicle and moves alongside the action and the character in the scene,cacuaslly following the objecvt/character. A dolly shot may be a good way of portraying and showing off a great movement, for example a jounery of the character from one place to another. It can also be used for a long-shot close up on an character, scene of object, this allows the auidence to focus on a particular object or character.
4. Hand-held shots
An hand-held shot allows the camera to be stabilized so it moves independently with the character or object in question. An hand held cameras denote and shows a certain kind of gritty realism in the scene and of the character. It allows audiences to feel that they realte or connect with whats is happenning in the scene.
A crane in use, following the path of a balloon floating into the sky
5. Crane Shots
A crane-shot is bascially a dolly- shot being filmed in the air. The camera operator and the camera are counter-balanced by a heavy weight, and trust their safety to a skilled crane operator.
6. Zoom Lenses
A zoom lens contains a mechanism that changes the magnification of an image in the scene. On a still camera, this means that the photographer who is taking the pictures can get a 'close up' shot whilsrt being placed in a future distance from the character or object in question. A video zoom lens can change the position in which the audience is in, either very quickly or slowly, without moving the camera an inch, which allows the audience to feel that they are there within the action.
7. The Aerial Shot
An aerial shot is a exciting variation of a crane shot, and is usually taken from a helicopter. This is often used at the beginning of a film, in order for the audience to establish setting of the film that they are about to watch.
This information was collected from http://www.mediaknowall.com. I used trhis site and the information they offer to understand the different types of basic camera angles and movement. This that i was able to summaries my understand od camera shots, angles and movments.
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