TECHNICAL ELEMENTS - SHOT TYPES

When I was looking at different types of font types I look at clips and trailers from the film of Step brothers and from love actually. I choose these two different films to look at trailers and clips from, because love actually was the film that i choose to do as my inspiration for my main film and the reason that i choose to do step brothers because I needed to look at how comedy genre films incorporated shots to make the films look funny, by looking at these shots in step brothers it helped me when I was thinking about putting comedy into my work.

 I focused on ten different shot types, that when I was watching the clips and the trailers I looked for the certain shots and then screenshot them. Underneath the images that I print screened I have put images that I drew of the screen shots. I used youtube to find all of the videos that I got my shots from;

Step Brother Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgqBtquItHM&safe=active
And some of the images I took myself for the shots that I could not find in the trailer.

Extreme Wide Shot 

This is a extreme wide shot, which can also be called a establisihing shot, in this shot it shows a wide shot of an area. Normally goes over a city, like New York.

Wide Shot/ Long Shot

The point of the long shot is to show the audience what is around them and show a long shot to make them get the full feel of what is in the room and the propp's that are being used.

Medium Shot

This shot focus' mainly on the actors facial features so that the audience can engage with the actors and build a bond with them.

Medium close up 

Medium close up shots are normally used to show the actors expression, the shot is known to only focus on the actors head and shoulders. This type of shot is normally used in all type of film genres.

Close Up

Close up shot shows the characters and actors emotions. 













Low Angle shot 

The low angle is taking looking up at the character, sometimes from someone else's perspective. 












High Angle Shot 

This is a high angle shot looking down on the characters/actors from above them. 












Over the shoulder shot 

Over the shoulder shot makes it look like the people are having conversations mostly used for turn taking conversations. The genres that this shot is normally used in is comedy or romantic films.  

Two Shot 

Two shot focuses on both characters or two characters which is normally used when two characters are having a conversation. Two shot gets both of the characters in the shot and focus' mainly on both of the characters profiles. This shot is used alot in comedy because comedies normally have more than one main character.