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Members: Niki Lecher, Luke Marks, Rob McBride, Patrick McCoy For example an extreme close up on an eye. Ultimately this tends to be a small portion showing an element or piece of an object. http://www.redeyerelief.com/news-2/
 * Extreme Close Up (ECU) -A very tight framing method that shows only a tiny part of a subject in great detail. This is usually on a persons face.

Close Up (CU) - In film, television, and still photography a close-up tightly frames a person or an object. Close-ups are one of the standard shots used regularly with medium shots and long shots. Close-ups display the most detail, but they do not include the broader scene.

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 * Medium Shot (MS) -In film, a medium shot is a camera 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.

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 * Long Shot (LS)-In photography, film and video, a long shot (sometimes referred to as a full shot or a wide shot) typically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings

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 * Wide Shot (WS)- A video or film recording made with the camera positioned to observe the most action in the performance

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 * Why and when might a director choose these different shots, how do they effect the mood of the shot? They might use these different distance shots, because not every shot works every kind of scene. Sometimes you need to see a person's face close up when you see this character for the first time in your movie. Other times when your shooting an action scene you want to be zoomed out some to witness all the action and not just some close up shot. People came for explosions not to see a large blemish and a guy's face! The mood can also be affected, because lets say there's a scene where a person is lying on their death bed with someone kneeling beside them. You don't want to be 100 ft away from it! You need to get a close up shot of the scene with the person kneeling next to their dying friend or relative. That's why a director chooses different shots.

__Resources For Definitions__

 * http://www.indie-film-making.com/glossary-of-video-terms/
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Close-Up
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_shot
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_shot
 * http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wide_shot