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Understanding Cinematic Framing: Long, Medium, and Close-Up Shots

This guide explores the fundamentals of cinematic framing, focusing on the three main shot types: Long, Medium, and Close-Up. Learn how each shot influences viewer perception and narrative. Long Shots set the scene and context, Medium Shots offer neutral framing for character interactions, and Close-Ups emphasize emotions and important details. We’ll cover camera angles—Low, High, Eye Level, and Dutch—and their effects on storytelling. Discover how lighting, particularly Low-Key and Neutral, shapes mood and atmosphere in film.

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Understanding Cinematic Framing: Long, Medium, and Close-Up Shots

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  1. Cinematic Level

  2. Framing • How the object in the shot will be positioned and filmed. • How much of the frame of the screen the object will occupy • Similar to cropping in photography • 3 main types

  3. Long Shot • Object on screen appears small or far away • Oftentimes used as an “establishing shot” • To show where the film takes place • Location, time • Objects and characters may seem unclear or indistinct because of a lack of detail

  4. Long Shot Enemy of the State

  5. Effects of a Long Shot? • Show where the action will take place. • Force the viewer to focus on one or two things in focus • Those must be important • To show that something is weak or powerless • It’s so small physically and power-ly!

  6. The Graduate

  7. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  8. Fargo

  9. City Slickers

  10. Psycho

  11. Close-Up • Object in focus takes up about 80% of the screen space • Object appears very large • Forces viewer to look at ONLY what the director intends

  12. Close-Up The Graduate

  13. Effects of a Close Up? • Object in frame is to be seen as important. • Often used as foreshadowing. • Can show characters’ reactions. • Can show emotions. • Can create tension since only a small portion of “the real world” is on screen (while other stuff must be happening!)

  14. Mission Impossible

  15. Cool Hand Luke

  16. The Departed

  17. Slumdog Millionaire

  18. Medium Shot • From about the waist up • The most common and most naturalistic framing choice • A “neutral framing” • Seems comfortable and unobtrusive • What does unobtrusive mean?

  19. Medium Shot • Effects? Dodgeball

  20. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

  21. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

  22. Camera Angles • Where the camera will be placed in relation to the subject • There are 4 main angles directors use

  23. Low Angle • Camera is below the subject being filmed The Graduate

  24. Effects of a Low Angle? • Framed item is seen “from below.” • Item looks large = powerful • Item can be seen as • Powerful • Dominant • Important • Could just be about location – looking UP at something!

  25. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  26. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  27. Apocalypse Now

  28. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

  29. High Angle • Camera is above the subject being filmed Fargo

  30. Effects of a High Angle? • Framed item is seen “from above.” • Item looks small = weak • Item can be seen as • Weak • Powerless • Inferior • Could just be about location – looking DOWN at something.

  31. The Graduate Psycho Mission Impossible

  32. Psycho

  33. Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World’s End

  34. The Shining

  35. The Untouchables

  36. Eye Level • Camera is at the same level as the subject being shot. • This is a “neutral camera angle”

  37. Dutch Angle • Object in the frame is “canted” or angled The Shining

  38. Effects of a Dutch Angle • Object in frame is “tilted.” • Object is literally “off kilter” • Could imply that the scene is emotionally off kilter or imbalanced. • Situation is unstable

  39. Do the Right Thing

  40. Do the Right Thing

  41. The Departed

  42. The Departed

  43. Lighting • The principle source of light for filming • 3 main types

  44. Low-Key Lighting • Much darkness • Many shadows Double Indemnity

  45. Effects of Low-Key Lighting • Many shadows are created • Ohhh….scary! • Suspense • Uncertainty • Doubt

  46. Shakespeare in Love

  47. Enemy of the State Psycho

  48. Compare the Two – From the Same Scene! Neutral Lighting Low-Key Lighting

  49. Raiders of the Lost Ark

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