Chapter TwoBasic Motion Media Shot Composition

DOI: 10.4324/9781003257356-2

  • Headroom

  • Shooting Style: Subjective versus Objective

  • Look Room/Nose Room

  • The Rule of Thirds

  • Camera Angles

  • The Two-Shot

  • The Over-the-Shoulder Shot

  • The Power Dynamic Two-Shot

  • The Three-Shot/Group Shots

Composition, as we are applying the term, is the purposeful arrangement of artistic parts selected for the “art form” being practiced. You can compose notes in music, steps in a dance routine, figures in a painting, elements on a web page, subjects within a film frame, etc.

Chapter One helped us understand how the traditional shots of film language depict the purposefully selected, varying magnitudes (proximity) of persons, actions, or events in a filmed “story.” Now, ...

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