A. Some different shots to try. Use them IF they fit the mood of your movie.

Shot Techniques

1. 1. Tilt - Use this to show the height of something. The camera will pivot either up or down from a stationary point.
   2. Camera Height - Show the lower part of something or someone (or the midsection such as someone holding an object) and then cut to the top to reveal what or who it is you are filming. It builds suspense.
   3. Extreme Angles - A bird's-eye or a worm's-eye shot.
   4. Tilted Horizon - Tilt the camera a bit to bring suspense or tension to the scene.
   5. Staging - There are no edits in a long "staged" scene.. Use this to show the action as it would be seen in a live theater.
   6. Split Scene - Something is going on both in the foreground while something else is going on in the background. The two should be related.
   7. Discovery - Start with a scene away from the action and then move towards it.
   8. Pull Back - To reveal the full scene start close on a subject and then slowly zoom out to reveal the entire scene. Use it to reveal the location of someone in a new situation.
   9. Spin Around - The camera is in the center and moves around in a circle to revel the entire 360 degree surroundings. Don't move too fast - you can make people dizzy.
   10. Spin Around - The camera starts on someone, shows them looking back and then spins to what they are looking at. Takes the place of a cut.
   11. Object Point of View - the camera is the still or moving object in a scene.
   12. Voyeur - The camera is the person but in this case we can see the hand or part of what they are holding as the camera looks at what they are looking at. Cut back to the face or eyes of the viewer.
   13. Shadow - Shoot the shadow of a person who is sneaking around or doing something mysterious. It builds suspense.
   14. Whip Pan and Cut - From a stationary shot the camera pans VERY quickly to another stationary shot. It is in a sense a transition shot.
   15. Search Up - Start low or somewhere close on a part of a subject and slowly move up or around and zoom out at the same time. Very tricky shot.. It builds some suspense or shock.This slowly reveals what we are seeing. Good to technique to intoduce a very important character or object in a movie.
   16. Upward Twist - The camera is pointing up to the sky, a building, a ceiling, etc. and it spins around. A transition used to change to another scene/location in the movie.
   17. Angle Change - The camera shifts (cuts) to various angles of the same subject. Used to build suspense.
   18. Match Cut - When action occurs in a shot (probably a LS or MS) cut to a c loser view that continues or finished the action.
   19. Quick Cut - a very fast cut to reveal something someone is looking at. Cut back to the person looking.
   20. Cross Cut - Cuts that move back and forth from separate pieces of action and location going on at the same time.
   21. Cut Away - Cut to a closer shot of something in the scene and then back to the scene. It draws attention briefly to the object. Use it for example as a transiton from MS to MCU.
   22. Freeze Frame - Just hold on to a shot for a length of time to emphasize the moment.
   23. View and Change - The actor looks at something, the camera cuts to what the actor sees, and then back to the actor. BUT the facial expresson has changed because of what the actor saw or heard.
   24. Multiple Takes - The same action is shot over again from different angles or views. Use to view a piece of action that went fast and needs to be seen again. Hard to do with actors so just use objects in the action.
   25. Cut Zoom Cut - Start with a LS or MS, cut to a closer view and then cut again to a yet closer view. Scene cuts should be quick. Use to show surprise. Do the opposite (stare close and cut out) to show where someone or something is located. Good for transitioning to another scene.
   26. Montage Sequence - Show pieces of someone doing something but each scene is in a different location. For example, a football player going through different phases of training in one day.
   27. Block Out Reveal - An actor walks toward the camera until they fill the screen and then there is a cut to a new scene. Do the same with a wall or other large object. The camers moves with an actor who walks out the door. The shot moves from part of the door filling the frame to another scene.
   28. Still Camera Shot - Takes action and breaks it up into single frames as if a photographer is taking still pictures. You need a camera shutter sound for each shot.
   29. Still Shot to Action - Used at the begining of movies, dissolve from a still shot of something to the same item in motion.
   30. Different Speeds - Slow up or speed up a scene to give the effect you want. Fast motion scenes show passage of time while slow motion cuts time.

   Source of some material: Setting Up Your Shots by Vineyard. Micael Wise Productions

2. Look at this online list of shots.