Places the audience in the position of a specific character, creating an immersive and personal experience.
2. Reaction Shots:
Captures the emotional responses and reactions of characters, influencing the audience's perceptions and feelings towards the characters and events.
3. Eye-Line Match:
Matches the gaze of a character with the desired object or person. This technique suggests what the character is looking at and directs the audience's focus.
4. Over-the-Shoulder Shot:
Positions the camera behind one character's shoulder, making the audience a participant in a conversation or scene.
5. Two-Shot:
Frames two characters in a single shot. This composition allows the audience to compare the characters' expressions, body language, and interactions.
6. Establishing Shot:
Provides a wide, panoramic view that sets the scene and allows the audience to grasp the overall environment.
7. Long Shot (Full Shot):
Shows a complete view of a character from head to toe, providing an understanding of their physical appearance, posture, and spatial relationship to the surroundings.
8. Medium Shot:
Focuses on a character from the waist up, emphasizing facial expressions, gestures, and upper body language.
9. Close-Up Shot:
Highlights specific features, emotions, or objects by isolating them in the frame. Close-ups create intimacy between the audience and the subject.
10. Extreme Close-Up Shot:
Extreme focus on a tiny detail or a small portion of a character's face, magnifying features and conveying intense emotion.
11. High-Angle Shot:
Captures a scene from an elevated position, making characters look vulnerable, overpowered, or unimportant.
12. Low-Angle Shot:
A shot taken from a lower perspective, which gives characters a sense of authority, confidence, or potential threat.
13. Dutch Angle (Canted Shot):
Tilts the camera on its axis, creating an unsettling atmosphere or symbolizing confusion and disorientation.
14. Insert Shot:
Presents a close-up of an object, document, or detail relevant to the scene, offering additional information or focusing attention on specific aspects.
15. Montage Sequence:
A rapid series of shots that compresses time, captures a variety of events or emotions, or emphasizes a certain concept or theme.
These techniques enable filmmakers to manipulate audience perspective, manipulate emotions, and guide the narrative in a visually engaging and impactful manner.