Don’t tell a story that you think somebody else could tell better.

Fewer words are always better.

Be ready to get rid of your favorite shot during editing.

Each shot should be different enough from other shots to justify its existence and to maximize editing choices.

Where the picture changes but the audio continues.

A change from one scene to another without any transition effects in between.

Where the sound of the next scene precedes the picture.

Two or more sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly if at all. There is an implied passage of time.

Drama

Romance

Horror

Western

Both things change.

The camera position changes, and the shot stays the same.

The camera position stays the same, but the shot size changes.

A line drawn between two people dividing 360 Degrees around them in half. The line is used as a guide that establishes which side (180 Degrees) the camera will move to capture coverage.

The camera shot size (may or may not) change, but the camera position changes at least 30 degrees.

As the camera moves closer toward the eye line the shot sizes get smaller.

Rule of Thirds

30 Degree Rule

180 Degree Rule

A line drawn between two people dividing 360 Degrees around them in half. The line is used as a guide that establishes which side (180 Degrees) the camera will move to capture coverage.

As the camera moves closer toward the eye line the shot sizes get smaller.

The camera shot size (may or may not) change, but the camera position changes at least 30 degrees.

Subjects physical moving during a shot.

New Subject enters and changes line.

Moving shot that crosses the line.

Shoot directly on the line.

Extreme High Angles.

A Cut Away/Inserts.

Don’t let them lay tracks before you’ve actually looked through your viewfinder.

The position of objects or people in a space.

The dimensions of height, depth, and width within which all things exist and move.

A continuous area or expanse that is free, available, or unoccupied.

The pulley weight system required a team of specially trained circus folk to operate

The reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.

Establishes the spatial relationship of the characters to each other.

To have as one's intention or objective.

The "Hiddy Ho"

The “Boxer Stand Off”

The "Wet Fish"

30 Degree Rule

3/4 of the foreground character.

180 Degree Rule.

Nothing in front of the subject.

Less than half of the subject in front.

When shot sizes are all different.

Matching the same angle and shot size for each actor so that they are the mirror opposite of each other.

The projected image was too small to be seen in large movie houses.

Changes occur within the frame (not by changing shot size or camera position)

Only one actor in the frame that the shot is designed to feature.

Place the non-speaking character into a shot.

A two shot that favors one character over the other allowing you to fill the negative space from behind the character that is not the focus of the shot

Only one actor in the frame that the shot is designed to feature.

A two shot where you can see a bit of another character in frame, usually out of focus.

A two shot with more than 3/4 of the foreground subject.