From the course: Essential Technical Aspects of Animation

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Long shot, medium, and close-up

Long shot, medium, and close-up

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Long shot, medium, and close-up

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- [Instructor] This is a quick introduction to the most common types of shots that you will deal with 'cause you hear a lot of people talking about establishing shot, long shot, medium shot. So it's a good idea to have a simple idea of what they are. I've seen sites out there that have lists of 50 shots: too much. The basic vocabulary of shots is fairly straightforward. Most of these images are from a previous course I did on storyboards. Storyboarding isn't relevant to everybody, but shot type should be known by everybody. So this is a typical establishing shot. It could have been even further out, but this was nice enough because I wanted to see the three figures here. This is just a quick sketch of our three characters so we get to see them in context. They're in a park, beautiful city, maybe San Francisco. We know where the action's about to begin. This is more of a long shot. We can see the full figures of the…

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