What are the key differences between full, medium and close up shots? How does this apply to over the shoulder shots? Two shots? How do different lenses affect these shots?
A full shot includes the entire subject's body in frame, from head to toe. A medium shot cuts in a bit closer, cutting off the subject somewhere between the knees and the waist in the frame. Close shots cut the subject off from the chest and up. Lastly, a close-up cuts off a subject from their neckline and up to the top of the head, and zooming in to cut off part of the forehead and neck can be referred to as an extreme close-up. You can do all of these for over the shoulder shots, depending on how far you want your subjects to be from each other in frame. For two shots, you can also use all of these shots, without having to move your subjects too far from each other. Different lenses can affect the depth of field/perspective of the shot, a. For example, if you were to shoot a full body shot of a subject with a 16mm lens, you would only need to go a couple of feet away from them to get their full body in frame. With a 300mm lens, you would have to go very far from the subject, and the objects in the background would appear closer than they actually are if you were to film with the 16mm lens, because the DOF would change.
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