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 * Shot Distance**s


 * Long shot ||  || A shot taken from a sufficient distance to show a landscape, a building, or a large crowd. ||
 * Medium shot ||  || A shot between a long shot and a close-up that might show two people in full figure or several people from the waist up. ||
 * Close-up ||  || A shot of one face or object that fills the screen completely. ||
 * Extreme close-up ||  || A shot of a small object or part of a face that fills the screen. ||


 * Camera Angles**


 * High angle ||  || The camera looks down at what is being photographed. ||
 * Eye level ||  || A shot that approximates human vision; a camera presents an object so that the line between camera and object is parallel to the ground. ||
 * Low angle ||  || The camera looks up at what is being photographed. ||


 * Camera Movement**

(dolly shot) ||  || The camera moves through space on a wheeled truck (or dolly), but stays on the same plane. ||
 * Pan ||  || The camera moves horizontally on a fixed base. ||
 * Tilt ||  || The camera points up or down from a fixed base. ||
 * Boom ||  || The camera moves up or down through space. ||
 * Tracking
 * Zoom ||  || Not a camera movement but a shift in the focal length of the camera lens to give the impression that the camera is getting closer to or farther from an object. ||

=Camera Speed=


 * Slow motion ||  ||
 * Regular ||  ||
 * Fast forward ||  ||


 * Editing**


 * Cut ||  || The most common type of transition in which one scene ends and a new one immediately begins. ||
 * Fade-out / Fade-in ||  || One scene gradually goes dark and the new one gradually emerges from the darkness. ||
 * Dissolve ||  || A gradual transition, in which the end of one scene is superimposed over the beginning of a new one. ||
 * Wipe ||  || An optical effect in which one shot appears to "wipe" the preceding one from the screen. ||