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Cinematography Intro: Camera Angles & Shots

Author: James Carlson

Ways to Frame a Shot

These include descriptions for various different ways to frame a shot. Of course you can use these in combination with other shots.

Angles

How you can use camera Angles to spice things up.

Specialty Shots

Some of the simple and complicated tricks

Over the Shoulder (with Rack Focus)

Panning

Vertigo

Straight Up Rack Focus

Dutch Tilt

Cut Away

Cutting to Grandpa Chip's wordless reaction to What Walker says (I'm narrating because there's no sound) is the cut away.

Tilt

Pedestal

Zoom

Dolly

This is actually a video of a guy making a dolly shot with a camera on the tracks. I pretty much think it demonstrates the idea just the same.

Point of View

Truck