Cinematography Terminology

Cinematography - The use of camera shots, angles, movement, depth of focus, composition
Deep Focus - Depth of field is the measure that can be applied to the area in focus within the frame
Shallow Focus - Shallow focus is a function of a narrow depth of field + it implies that only one plane of the frame will remain sharp + clear
Racking focus - The change of focus of the lens to a subject in the background to the foreground
Zoom shot - Changes the focal length of the lens in the middle of the shot
Film Speed - Rate - Standard rate = 24 frames per sec

Angle of framing:
Low angle - Filming from below
High angle - Filming from above
Level of framing - refers to height at which camera is positioned in a given shot

Canted framing - Where the camera is not level but tilted
Following shot/reframing - Follows the character
POW Shot - Where the viewer would image a characters gaze to be
Wide Angle Lens - distort the edges of a frame to emphaize amount of space in shot

Extreme Long Shot - What being seen is tiny
Long Shot - What being seen is small
MLS - what being seen takes up almost entire height of screen
MCU - Large screen shot, takes up most of screen
CU - large, entire screen
ECU - very large, usually part of a face
Crane shot - mounting a camera on a type of crane device
Steadi Cam shot - used for motion tracking shot
Pan - Follows action
Tilt - camera moves up and down
Tracking shot - follows action through space in variety of direction