Camera Shots

• Extreme long shot (ELS).
• Used in scene setting, establishing shots.
• They normally show and exterior.
• Meant to give a general impression rather than specific information.
• Establishing shot (ES).

Long shot (LS)

• Shows the image as approximately ¨life¨ size (corresponding to the real distance between the audience and the screen in a cinema).
• Includes the full shot showing the entire human body, with the head near the top of the frame and the feet near the bottom.

Medium or mid shot (MS)

• Shows a figure from the kness/waist up and is normally used for dialogue scenes, or to show some detail of action.
• Background detail is minimal.

Close-up (CU)

• Shows very little background, and concentrates on either a face, or a face, or a specific detail of mise en scène.
• Everything else is just a blur in the background.
• This shot magnifies the object and shows the importance of things, be it words written on paper, or the expression on someone´s face.

Extreme close-up (ECU)

• An extreme version of the close up, generally magnificalling beyond what the human eye would experience in really.
• An extreme close-up of a face, for instance, would show only the mouth or eyes, with no background detail whatsover.
• This is a very artificial shot, and can be used for dramatic effect.

Over-the-shoulder shot

• Shot established to get a view of a shot from the shoulder of an actor.

Aerial shot

• A shot taken from a rat, helicopter or a person on top a building. Not necessarily a moving shot. The main source of light is behind the subject, silhouetting it, and directed toward the camera. 

Shot reverse shot

• Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.

Master shot

• A master shot is a film recording of an entire dramatized scene, from start to finish, from an angle that keeps all the players in view.
•  It is often a long shot and can sometimes perform a double function as an establishing shot.
•  Usually, the master shot is the first shot checked off during the shooting of a scene—it is the foundation of what is called camera coverage, other shots that reveal different aspects of the action, groupings of two or three of the actors at crucial moments, close-ups of individuals, insert shots of various props, and so on.

Wide shot

• A video or film recording made with the camera positioned to observe the most action in the performance.