What’s on the Shot Sizes poster
A 6-row table: Shot · Frame holds · Use.
Named sizes, from widest to tightest.
- Extreme wide — Landscape, figure tiny — Place
- Wide — Whole body, some space — Geography
- Medium — Waist up — Dialogue
- Medium close — Chest up — Interview
- Close-up — Head and shoulders — Emotion
- Extreme close — Eyes, hands, detail — Emphasis
Change size by at least two steps between cuts on the same subject, or the edit reads as a jump rather than a new view.
Questions about the Shot Sizes poster
- What’s on the Shot Sizes poster?
- A 6-row table: Shot · Frame holds · Use. Named sizes, from widest to tightest. Extreme wide — Landscape, figure tiny — Place; Wide — Whole body, some space — Geography; Medium — Waist up — Dialogue; Medium close — Chest up — Interview; Close-up — Head and shoulders — Emotion; Extreme close — Eyes, hands, detail — Emphasis. Change size by at least two steps between cuts on the same subject, or the edit reads as a jump rather than a new view.
- Who is the Shot Sizes poster for?
- Shot Sizes belongs to the Communications & Media section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning production can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Shot Sizes poster?
- On set, when the director asks for coverage and means these. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Shot Sizes belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Shot Sizes?
- Coverage, Framing a Shot and Recording Levels sit alongside Shot Sizes in the Communications & Media section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.CoverageFraming a ShotRecording Levels
- Is the Shot Sizes poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Shot Sizes downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Communications & Media section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Shot Sizes poster print at?
- Shot Sizes is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Shot Sizes loses nothing.Printing guide
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