The 30 Camera Shots Every Film Fan Needs To Know (Thirty! Three-Zero!!) - Part One

This is an article from Empire magazine's website (link below) and details 30 different types of shot, citing many examples and providing a few along the way. I've followed their example suggestions and gathered the first ten here.

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Empire: THE 30 CAMERA SHOTS EVERY FILM FAN NEEDS TO KNOW

Aerial Shot

It's over in a flash. You don't have to listen to the song.

Arc Shot

This also includes a tracking crane (pedestal) tilt combo. Given that the dance floor looks impressively crowded, it's a surprise a that they didn't crush any extras. 

Bridging Shot

Meant as a means of signalling a change of location or the passing of time, it's not the most subtle of shots. Other examples? I suppose we could use the hands of a clock whizzing around, a montage of changing seasons or fluttering desk calendar pages. It is a fun shot in Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981) and it feels like a reference to a much earlier film but I can't put my finger on it. A Saturday matinee from around the WWII era? That's going to annoy me.

Close Up

Medium Shot

Spot the medium shots and two shots in this trailer for John Ford's The Searchers (1956). There are loads of 'em!

Long Shot

Omar Sharif arriving from a very, very long way off. Pointedly setting the scene and building anticipation in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

Cowboy Shot

Literally shooting from the hip. You'll see a classic example at around 3 minutes in to the video. Taken from Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966).

Deep Focus

Dolly out from an exterior (extreme?) long shot to an interior knee shot and mid shot, this displays an unforgiving, long depth of field. Every element is in focus with the dark figure of the young boy framed by the window and in stark contrast to the bright snow. Taken from Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941).

Dolly Zoom

A favourite of horror and suspense, the dolly zoom is unsettling, intense and dizzying all in one unnatural movement. I suspect that this would be easier to pull off with a virtual camera than it's real-world counterpart.

 Dutch Tilt

I thought that "tilting" the camera on this axis was called "roll" but a Dutch roll would be something else. You can see an example near the beginning of the clip as Dr. Frankenstein is throwing switches. It's not as extreme as the type of shot you'd get in, say, a 60's era Batman villain hideout, but it is just enough to mess with the normal lines of the set (particularly at 0:21s in).