An Introduction to Shot Types

To begin our Media lessons, we talked about different shot types and learnt what they are. First of all we learnt about the basic shots of extreme long shot all the way down to extreme close up. In this task we found pictures that were examples of these shots. Here is an example of a medium shot:

Subsequently, we progressed onto learning about the 'angle' shots. Which include: worms eye, low angle, high angle, birds eye and canted eye level. These angle shots also create different moods. We then learnt about even more shots. I was really excited to learn about the variation of shots and interested to realise the range of shots that I could be using during filming.

Lastly we then looked at movement shots. Due to there not being many photographs of movement shots we looked up the definitions of these shot types. I was surprised to recognise the movement shots for the definitions given.