camera angles and shots

Camera angles
1) Bird’s-eye view:
A Bird’s-eye view shows a scene from overhead. Overhead of your character or even to show the setting but the shot doesn’t show anything as clearly as you may think it is. This camera shot makes the audience feel like ‘God’ as God watches over everything that happens over our heads. People would look as tiny as ants and that also makes the audience feel tall and proud.
2) High Angle:
This angle is similar to the Bird’s-eye view but not as high up. The camera is slanted in the action, hovering over the sides of the heads. This makes whatever you are trying to focus on smaller and insignificant. This action becomes part of a wider scale.
3) Eye Level:
The eye-level shot is placed in level with a character’s face as if the audience is watching in level with the focus.
4) Low Angle:
Low angles are mainly used to give an effect of how small you are to the world. Low angles shots give a sense of powerlessness and makes you feel useful in the scene and this type of camera angle would be useful for short actors like Danny Devito or Tom Cruise.
Camera movements
1) Pans:
This movement scans a scene horizonatally. Strange? Nope. The camera has to be placed on a tripod because soft shake’s of a movement is very sensitive and the audience would be able to access that mistake. The camera is turned to the side to often show a moving object in the middle of the frame.
2) Tilts: 
This can be similar to a ‘Pan’ shot although it scans the scene vertically.
3) Dolly Shots: 
This is sometimes called a ‘trucking’ or a ‘tracking’ shot. The camera is usually placed inside a vehicle or a plane, or mounted anywhere that creates movement if the director wants a complicated dolly shot. The dolly shots generally follow a moving object. The dolly shot is good for following the movement of a human or an object showing the journey from one end to another.
4) Hand-held Camera Shots: 
Hand held camera shots are moved by us, humans. This brings the audience to see as if they were inside them movie, witnessing an event that takes place. For instance, if a person is running in front of you and the hand-held camera shot is moving in a jerky unstable way focusing on the person running that may mean that that you are eyeing  chasing after them, watching every movement the person is doing in front of you. This type of camera angle is denotating reality when you are running behind another person rather than having a solid, boring camera angle.
5) Crane Shot: 
Crane Shots are similar to a dolly shot although it moves left, right, centre, up, down, diagonally etc. but in the air by using a large metal stand as you can see on the left here.
6) Zoom Lenses:
A zoom lense is use to change the magnification of an image by either using a close-up shot or a long shot in a camera (photographer) but the photographer standing a metre or two away. A zoom could be played out when the camera focuses on an object burried with other things but then zooms in quickly to face the main subject the director is trying to concentrate on. A zoom lense can be used with a trypod to stabalize.
7) Aerial Shot: Aerial shots are usually taken from a helicopter and is similar to a ‘Crane Shot’. You would usually find an ‘Aerial’ Shot in the beginning of a film to establish the setting and movement. This one is more exciting!
Camera shots

• EWS (Extreme Wide Shot)

The view is so far from the subject that he isn't even visible. Often used as an establishing shot.

• VWS (Very Wide Shot)

The subject is visible (barely), but the emphasis is still on placing him in his environment.

• WS (Wide Shot)

The subject takes up the full frame, or at least as much as comfortably possible.
AKA: long shot, full shot.

• MS (Mid Shot)

Shows some part of the subject in more detail while still giving an impression of the whole subject.

• MCU (Medium Close Up)

Half way between a MS and a CU.

• CU (Close Up)

A certain feature or part of the subject takes up the whole frame.

• ECU (Extreme Close Up)

The ECU gets right in and shows extreme detail.

• Cut-In

Shows some (other) part of the subject in detail.

• CA (Cutaway)

A shot of something other than the subject.

• Two-Shot

A shot of two people, framed similarly to a mid shot.

• OSS (Over-the-Shoulder Shot)

Looking from behind a person at the subject.

• Noddy Shot

Usually refers to a shot of the interviewer listening and reacting to the subject.

• POV (Point-of-View Shot)

Shows a view from the subject's perspective.

• Weather Shot

The subject is the weather. Can be used for other purposes, e.g. background for graphics.