Shot

Just as prose has identifiable building blocks, such as word, phrase, sentence, paragraph,story,  so too film has identifiable units of meaning.

These are: frame, shot, scene, act, movie.

A shot is a unit of meaning that is an uninterrupted sequence of frames.

Each shot on its own is as useful as a phrase on its own.

When strung together within the correct order, shots produce a larger unit of meaning.

This section looks at the different shot types available to the filmmaker.