What is a Camera?

A Guide to Creativity

Power Rules Review

1. Use a Tripod• A tripod will give stability for

beautiful steady footage

3. Lock and Roll• Lock it: frame your shot then do not touch the

camera.

• Roll It: record and let run it for at least 10 seconds.

Place points of interest on the lines or intersections.

2. Rule of Thirds

2. Rule of Thirds

• Zoom in on your subject

• Focus

• (If it is a person, focus on their eyes)

4. FOCUS

SHOT TYPE REVIEW

ELS: Extreme Long Shot•Use this shot to establish the

area

LS: Long Shot•Show the entire person or subject

MS: Medium Shot• Frame the subject from the waist up

CU: Close Up• Show a particular part of your subject. For people this

usually means that the shot frames just the head and shoulders.

ECU: Extreme Close Up•Much closer than the CU. Details.

For a person this could be the eyes and mouth only.

CAMERA ANGLES

Child’s EyeThe camera is positioned so that the child’s eyes

are level with the lens of the camera.

Eye LevelA fairly neutral shot; the camera is positioned to

be at the eye level of the subject.

High AngleCamera is placed above eye level, looking

downward. This shot makes the object look smaller, confused, or more childlike.

Low AngleCamera is placed below eye level, looking

upward. This shot makes the object look bigger, stronger, or more noble.

Bird’s Eye ViewThis shows a scene from directly overhead, a very

unnatural and strange angle.

What’s our angle?

What’s our angle?

What’s our angle?

What’s our angle?

What’s our angle?