Micro Elements - Cinematography

Cinematography is the framing and camera shots of a film. Cinematography includes camera shot, movement and camera angles. We should be considering the point below when thinking about camera for our music video to get a variety of shots and macro elements:

Camera shots

• Extreme close-up
• Big close-up
• Close-up
• Medium close-up
• Medium shot
• Medium long shot
• Long shot
• Very long shot
• Extreme long shot
• Two shot
• Over the shoulder shot
• Point of view shot
• Bird's eye view

Camera movement

• Pans
• Dolly
• Zoom (in or out)
• Crane
• Handheld
• Tilt
• Tracking shot
• Crab

Camera Angles

• High angle shot
• Low angle shot
• Dutch angles