Media terminology

 Camera/subject distance (through preliminary work) :

• Long shot 

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  Full shot

• Medium shot/waist shot 

• Medium close shot/shoulder shot

• Close up

• Extreme close shot
  

• Extreme long shot

Angle of camera's viewpoint (through preliminary work) :

• Low angle shot

• High angle shot

• Extreme low angle shot

• Extreme high angle shot

• Oblique angle/canted angle/Dutch angle shot

• Over the shoulder shot

• Establishing shot

Number of subjects in a frame :

• Two shot

• Three shot

• Four shot

• Five shot

• Group shot

Focus description:

• Selective focus - selected subjects in focus

• Deep focus - foreground, background and middle ground all in focus

• Soft focus - deliberate appearance of blurring while retaining sharp edges

Lighting :

• High-key lighting

• Low-key lighting 

• Standard lighting

• Dominant back lighting

• No fill/negative fill

• Eye light

• No eye light

• Light from behind the subject 

• Overexposure

• Underexposure

Using shadows :

• Silhouette - lighting the background but not the subject

• Limbo lighting - lighting the background but not the subject 

• Luminescent subject - subject gives off light rather than reflecting light

• Chiaroscuro - juxtaposition between light and dark