Camer Shot Size
Camera Framing
Shot Focus
- Rack Focus / Focus Pull: focus changes between subjects during a continuous shot
- Shallow Focus
- Deep Focus: front to back focus in an image
- Tilt-Shift
- Soft Focus
- Split Diopter (two focal lengths, half the lens nearsighted and half the lens farsigheted)
Rack Focus (two focuses in one shot, moving from one to other)
Shallow Focus (blur in background, vignetting)
Deep Focus (no clear fore-, mid- and background, all focused)
Soft Focus
Tilt-Shift Focus
Split Diopter Lens (half lens nearsighted, half lens farsighted)
Camera Movement
Shot List in alphabetical order
- arc shot /180 degrees
- camera upside down
- Camera shake
- crane up/down
- crab dolly
- crash whip/tilt/pan/zoom or whip tilt/pan/zoom
- dolly in/out
- Dolly shot
- dolly in and zoom out
- dolly out and zoom in
- Dutch shot (tilted on x-axis)
- fast motion
- orbit /360 degree
- overhead shot
- pan left/right
- pedestal up/down
- roll left/right
- slider shot left/right
- slow motion
- steadycam tracking
- sweeping drone shot (establishing shot)
- tight framing (subject fills out the frame)
- tracking shot
- truck in/out
- trucking
- zoom in/out
- wire/zipline shot
Long List
- 360 orbit shot (full orbit): rotate slowlyhalfway around a man standing in the rain
- arc shot (180 degrees)
- boom shot or crane shot, pedestal shot (vertical camera movement)
- bullet time (freezing time while moving around the object)
- crane / jib / pedestal shot: vertical rising of the camera
- crash zoom (moving fast to the character)
- cut away shot
- Dolly Shot
- dolly in and zoom out
- dolly out and zoom in)
- drone shot
- Dutch shot or Dutsch tilt (tilt on X-axis)
- Film still (photograph taken during production): fixed lens, static shot, lock off, close-up on...
- FPV (first person view: slow FPV over a calm lake, follow the eagle soaring above the mountains
- floating shot
- flyover shot
- God's Eye Angle (aerial view)
- handheld or GoPro shot
- insert shot (to focus viewer's attention to a specific detail, extrem close-up)
- Limbo shot (character against black background)
- over-the-shoulder shot
- Pan left or right (horizontal axis): camera pans left across the bustling market, pan from talbe to the door
- nodel pan (
- POV/point of view shot (camera acts as the eyes of the character)
- Pullout shot / zoom out
- roll left or right
- slow motion
- sniper vision shot (circle of aim, sniper point of view)
- split screen shot (screen is split up into two or more areas)
- speed ramping
- tilt up and down: tilt down from the castle towers to the drawbridge below
- tracking shot (camera follows character)
- Crab Shot (following sidways)
- tunnel vision shot (blurred edges)
- weeping
- Wire Shot (cam moving on a wire or zipline)
- Whip pan / Swish Pan (pan left or right at high speed)
- Whip Tilt (tilt up or down at high speed)
- zoom in or out: zoom in on her eyes slowly, zoom out from a window to show the entire house
Editing Transitions
- Defocus Cut (blurring the image)
- Dissolve Cut (gradual transition from one to next)
- ripple
- fade (black screen)
- wash (frame is in a certain color)
- iris
- invisible cut (one-shot take, long takes)mu
- Match cut (one elements moves from one scene to the next)
- graphic
- action
- sound bridge
- Jump Cut (jumps into different time zone, time of life)
- Whip Pan (fast rotation of camera on x-axis with blur effect)
- Eyeline Cut (view of face in between scenes)
- Morph Cut
- Cross Cutting (switchung between two scenes)
- Cut away (showing supporting information)
- Contrast Cut (juxtaposition)
- Eye Trace Cut (follow the subjects view)
- Hard Cut (complete change of image, music and shot type)
- Split Edit (L-cut or J-cut: either sound or image changes first, the other later)
- intellectual montage (unrelated scenes put together)
- Cut on action
Camera Shot Angles
Special Angles
- Arc Shot (180 or 360 degrees around the subject)
- Body Cam Shot (mounted on clothing)
- Breaking the 4th Wall Shot (character speaking directly to the camera)
- Bullet Time Shot (camera slows down to a standing still)
- Camera Shaker Movement (shaking the image to show an earthquake or ground shakes)
- Car Rig Movement (to film within a car)
- Chroma Key or Blue/Green Screen Shot (character is filmed in front of colored backdrop)
- Circular Iris Shot (imitating a telescope or looking glass)
- Diffusion Shot (diffusion glass)
- Doggy/Buggy Cam Movement Shot (a buggy with a cam)
- Dutch Angle Shot (Horizont is not leveled)
- Fallen Camera Shot (crash cam falls to floor)
- Fast Motion (shooting at lower FPS to speed up the scene)
- Fish Eye Shot (with Fish lens)
- Frozen Frame Shot (zoom in and freeze, last shot of film)
- Helmet Camera Movement (mounted on a helmet)
- Glamour Shot
- Limbo Shot (shooting against a jet black background, showing introspective conversations)
- Jib Shot (mounted on crane)
- Rack Focus Shot (shifting from one focus to next in one shot without moving the cam)
- Robot Arm Movement Shot (for action scenes, cam is mounted on robot arm)
- Slow Shutter Shot (shot with low shutter speed, motion blur)
- Slow Motion
- Sniper Vision Circular Frame Shot with crosshairs overlaid (two circles with black surrounding)
- Binocular View: binocular view composed of two overlapping circular black frames, solid dark fill of background, with night vision effect, snow-capped craggy mountain peaks, dark backdrop, digital tactical overlay with corner brackets and crosshair, monochromatic green night vision aesthetic, GPS coordinates overlay, high contrast rocky terrain, photorealistic military equipment view
- Split Diopter Shot (two things in focus at same time)
- Split Screen Shot (images with two panels)
- Tilt Shift Shot (massive things like toys, with shift lens)
- Out of focus Shot (blurred vision, under the influence of alcohol or drugs)
- Upside Down Shot (subject is placed upside down)
- Point of View Shot (what the character sees)
- Wide Angle Shot / Establishing Shot (with 16 to 35mm lens)
- Table 360 Pan (cam on the centre of table and panning left or right)
- Telephot Shot (with 70 to 200mm lens)
- Timelaps (static camera films over period of time)
- Vertigo Shot / Hitchcock Shot:
- Vignette Shot (edges get darker or lighter) or Tunnel Vision Shot (edges are blurred out)
Prompts for a static front shot
Zoom out
The car is static while the camera starts on extreme close-up of the front spoiler. Smoothly pull back and transition to a wide establishing shot, revealing the logo's context within a larger, expansive scene. Maintain visual continuity as the camera movement gradually unveils the broader environmental setting, transforming from microscopic focus to comprehensive landscape perspective.
Crash zoom in
The car is static while the camera crash zooms into the lower front spoiler
Broad evironmental view
The car is static while the camera starts low to the ground, precise camera movement. Progressively ascending and pulling away from the car, revealing an expansive aerial perspective that transitions from ground-level detail to a wide, sweeping view. Maintain fluid motion and crisp focus while expanding the visual field from intimate proximity to broad environmental context
Crane up
The car is static while the camera starts at the asphalt level, smoothly ascending vertically with afluid camera movement. Reveal a sleek car from directly overhead, showing its entire silhouette, color, and design details as the perspective transitions from ground to aerial view. Maintain steady upward motion with precise, stabilized framing, transitioning from road surface to full top-down automotive perspective in one continuous shot
Orbit
The car is static while the camera orbits fast around the car to show its side.
Paning left
The car is static while the camera pans left slowly across the street to the tree.
Zooming into detail
car is static while the camera zooms in to the left front light
Tilting up
car is static while the camera crawls towards the car and tilts up
Camera Roll ???
Prompts for dynamic front shot
Dolly zoom shot
Camera positioned low in front of a silver Mercedes-Benz EQS on a winding alpine mountain road. As the camera pulls back while simultaneously zooming in, maintaining the car at the same size in frame, the background dramatically warps and stretches, creating a disorienting perspective shift.
Changing lanes
The car drives along the winding road while the camera pulls back , simultaneously zooming in, maintaining the car at the same size in frame. Then the car smoothly changes lanes to pass. As it does, the camera gradually slows down, allowing the car to overtake the camera, leaving the pristine mountain road bathed in sunset light.
Focus on wheels
A silver Mercedes EQS glides along a curved mountain road at sunset. Camera trucks the car, then gradually zooms in on the front wheel, keeping focus on the silver and black wheel design. As the camera closes in on the wheel, transition to extrem slow motion, capturing every detail of the wheels against the blurred mountain backdrop. The wheel is amost static, showing the interplay of light on the rims and tire surface.
Trucking
Camera moves parallel to a silver Mercedes-Benz EQS at matching speed, positioned at three-quarter rear view. Vehicle remains perfectly centered while mountain scenery flows past. Road surface shows subtle motion blur while the car stays crystal clear. Dramatic golden hour lighting creates elegant reflections across the car's metallic paint and glass surfaces. LED taillights glow against the warm sunset. Background reveals majestic Alpine peaks with atmospheric haze, evergreen forests, and sunlit grass slopes. Guard rails lead eye through frame.
"Dutch angle"
A silver Mercedes EQS drives along a mountain road at golden hour. Starting from the front view, the camera smoothly flies over the car in a half-circle motion, moving to the backward of the car. As the camera passes directly overhead, it continues its arc until it's upside down behind the car, now capturing the rear view of the vehicle with mountains appearing inverted in the background. The smooth, continuous motion maintains focus on the car throughout the flip, with the sunset-lit landscape rotating around it.
Elevated view
A silver Mercedes EQS drives on a winding mountain road at golden hour. The camera elevates fast and steadily, rising directly above the vehicle. As it ascends, the perspective widens to reveal the entire curving road ahead, with sunlit golden meadows and pine forests on the slopes. The car continues driving while the camera holds its elevated position, letting the vehicle drive passed the camera. The final shot captures the empty serpentine road cutting through the dramatic mountain landscape, bathed in warm sunset light streaming through the valley.
Tips
- Start out with a close-up image / prompt for a full body-shot: The video zooms out
- Start out with a close-up of feet / prompt for a new detail (tilt up to his face): The video moves up to the head
- Use a style reference image (paperclip symbol) and --sw 15 to set the overall style of your images.
- Use an upscaler like Magnific to get better details of your images.