Week 7 Article Review

Film Studies 101: The 30 Camera Shots Every Film Fan Needs to Know

This article focused on the 30 most common camera angels used it the movie making industry. The article provided videos with examples of each of the different angels so we as the readers could see what the angel looked like. The list of Angels are listed below with examples of movies they show up in:

Aerial Shot - The opening of The Sound Of Music (1965). Altogether now, “The hills are alive..."

Arc Shot - The shot in De Palma's Carrie (1976) where Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) and Tommy Ross (William Katt) are dancing at the prom. The swirling camera move represents her giddy euphoria, see?

Bridging Shot - The journey from the US to Nepal in Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981).

Close Up - Falconetti's face in The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928).

Medium Shot - Any John Ford film (i.e. The Searchers), the master of the mid shot.

Long Shot - Omar Sharif approaching the camera on camel in David Lean's Lawrence Of Arabia (1962).

Cowboy Shot - The three-way standoff in The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966).

Deep Focus - Thatcher (George Couloris) and Kane's mother (Agnes Moorehead) discussing Charles (Buddy Swan)'s fate while the young boy plays in the background in Citizen Kane (1941).

Dolly Zoom - Police Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) sees the Kintner kid (Jeffrey Voorhees) get it in Jaws (1975). Not the first but the best.

Dutch Tilt - The beginning of the laboratory scene in Bride Of Frankenstein (1935).

Establishing Shot - The first glimpse of the prison in The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

Handheld Shot - The pool hall fist fight in Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973).

Low Angle Shot - Darth Vader stomping around the Death Star corridors in Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope (1977).

High Angle Shot - Andy Dufresne throwing his hands up into the rain having finally escaped from Shawshank prison in The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

Locked-Down Shot - Ike (Woody Allen) and Mary (Diane Keaton) walk in and out of shot whilst flirting.

Library Shot - Every shot of an animal in a black and white Tarzan movie.

Matte Shot - The final shot of 1968's Planet Of The Apes.

Money Shot - The White House blowing up in Independence Day (1996).

Over-The-Shoulder Shot - The opening of The Godfather (1972).

Pan - Brian de Palma's Blow Out (1981) — a 360 degree pan in Jack Terry (John Travolta)'s sound studio.

POV shot - The opening of Halloween (1978) told from the point of view of the child Michael Myers (Will Sandin).

The Sequence Shot - The 3 min 20 secs opening of Touch Of Evil (1958) in which Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) and Susie (Janet Leigh) cross paths with a car carrying a ticking bomb.

Steadicam Shot - Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) taking his new girl (Lorraine Braco) through the Copa by the back entrance in Goodfellas (1990). If you have the time, also see Russian Ark, a 99 minute Steadicam shot.

Tilt -The last shot of Robert Altman's Nashville (1975).

Top Shot -The camera moving over the carnage left by Travis Bickle at the end of Taxi Driver (1976).

Tracking Shot - The dolly shots in the trenches during Stanley Kubrick's Paths Of Glory (1957).

Two-Shot-Quiz Kid Donnie Smith (William H. Macy) and Thurston Howell (Henry Gibson) discuss love in Magnolia (1999).

Whip Pan-Any one of a dozen sequences in Hot Fuzz (2007).

Zoom- The slow descending zoom that picks out Mark (Frederic Forrest) and Ann (Cindy Williams) out of a crowd in The Conversation (1974).

Crane Shot - Gone With The Wind (1939).

There are many great examples and movies that used the examples I’ll have to re – watch some of these movies to see if I can pick up on the different camera angels used.

Here’s a link to the article: https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/film-studies-101-camera-shots-styles/