Frame

When filming someone or more then one person, there are many different types of frames that are used for each shot which are important in their own different way.
For incidence, we have the Wide Shot, or you could call it the Full shot. This is a frame that captures the character’s full body so you then get to see what the person’s body language is. And it also catches the background of where the scene is taking place. This lets the audience know where about the character’s whereabouts are or may give a clue to where the character could be. Also in the wide shot, you could involve more then 1 person so that you could see perhaps 2 people or more talking to another, plus there is always a chance that if the shot is taken in a busy place for example, you could also see more people in the far background who look just like everyday people which makes the movie look a little more realistic.

But be aware, staying on just one frame can get boring after a while, making the audience loose interest. That is when we move onto another frame, like the medium frame. The media frame is a close up shot of the character which takes a shot from the waist to the head. So you then get a shot of half the body of the character, but it would mean less background, yet more emotion coming towards the facial expressions.

But once again, the audience will start to loose interest into the frame shot after a while, so we then change it to another frame shot. We then have the close up shot which is….you guessed it, a close up frame that shows a shot of the person’s face. T his doesn’t bring to much attention to the background because it focuses more on the facial expressions of the character. You can then see a good view of what the character’s emotions are going to be, like sad, happy, shocked, angry, Joy, est.

There is also another frame which is often done in America and mostly in cowboy movies. I present to you the Cowboy shot. Why is it called a cowboy shot? Well, that is because the cowboy shot is a frame that captures the shot of the character from the knees to the head which that frame shot is often seen in cowboy films.

But the real point of the frames shots are that you must make sure that you keep on changing the fames around for if the frame just stays on one frame shot, then it’s audience will start to loose interest and get bored, so the frames must always change after a little while.