link to CAMERA SHOTS 2
Videotape these
in this order:
1. Wide Shot
2. Medium Shot
3. Close Up
4. Point of View Shot
5. Two-Shot
6. Over the Shoulder
7. High Angle
8. Low Angle
9. Pan
10. Tracking
11. Tilt
WIDE SHOTS (also Establishing Shots)
left: Once Upon a Time in America; above: Field of Dreams
above: Last Picture Show; right: Cool Hand Luke
MEDIUM SHOTS above: sometimes a medium shot can be an establishing shot
left: Maltese Falcon; above: The Graduate
some of these medium shots can also be called 2-shots
left: JFK; above: The Godfather
CLOSE UPS
left: Clockwork Orange; above: The Godfather
left: Apocalypse Now
below: Vertigo
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
yes, it is possible to have two people in a close up. MORE FROM HITCHCOCK