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Discover LudwigThe phrase "medium shot and" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a sequence of shots in a movie, television show, or other visual media. For example, "The next scene began with a long shot of the beach, followed by a medium shot and a close-up of the protagonist."
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Everything is in medium shot, and the actors have to compensate for the size of the space, their voices more strained, their manner more graphic and frenetic.
These shots, starting with a medium shot and culminating in two close-ups of the Monster's face, were repeated by Whale to introduce Griffin in The Invisible Man and the abusive husband in One More River.
As a very general rule, professional filmmakers shoot each scene in a wide shot, medium shot and close up of important elements.
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Selznick's book begins with a series of pencil drawings that feels like an introductory film sequence establishing shots, medium shots, and closeups.
Selznick's book begins with a series of pencil drawings that feels like an introductory film sequence — establishing shots, medium shots, and closeups.
Chandor begins many of these scenes with wide-angle shots that set the context — on warehouse-lined streets or inside spacious homes — before he moves to medium shots and closeups.
The close-up has its most dramatic impact coming after long or medium shots, and after many close-ups it is a relief to escape to the middle or far distance.
There he grew close to an aging and lonely neighbor, the great Danish film director (and explorer of religious themes) Carl Dreyer — one of the sources, the sculptor says, of this cinematic conception of the stations, which among other things move in and out from wide to medium shots and close-ups.
Those segments that can be glimpsed on late-night reruns betray few signs of an individual directorial style; but then, television by its nature tends to force directors into the overuse of closeups, medium shots, and narrative rhythms that can tell a story quickly and simply.
While interpreters are usually shown in medium shots, and as much as possible not alone but together with the participants whose talk they are interpreting, there are times when the interpreter is made visible through a close shot.
Overhead shots are most commonly used, with some medium shots and a small number of large shots.
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