Medium shot
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In film, a medium shot is a camera angle shot from a medium distance. The dividing line between "long shot" and "medium shot" is fuzzy, as is the line between "medium shot" and "close-up". In some standard texts and professional references, a full-length view of a human subject is called a medium shot; in this terminology, a shot of the person from the knees up or the waist up is a close-up shot. In other texts, these partial views are called medium shots. (For example, in Europe a medium shot is framed from the waist up.) It is mainly used for a scene when it is desirable to see the subjects' facial expressions in the context of their body language.
There is no evident reason for this variation. It is not a distinction caused by, for example, a difference between TV and film language or 1930s and 1980s language.
See also
- Bird's eye shot
- Bird's-eye view
- Camera angle
- Camera operator
- Mise-en-scene
- Close-up
- Dutch angle
- Establishing shot
- High-angle shot
- Long shot
- Low-angle shot
- Over the shoulder shot
- Point of view shot
- Two shot
- Video production
- Videographer
