Shot Size And Angle Language

Use this skill when framing precision matters.

Source Basis

• StudioBinder shot size and camera shot guides.

Standard Vocabulary

Use standard abbreviations when useful:

• ECU: extreme close-up
• CU: close-up
• MCU: medium close-up
• MS: medium shot
• MFS / MW: medium full / medium wide
• FS: full shot
• WS / LS: wide / long shot
• EWS: extreme wide shot

Selection Rules

• ECU/CU for micro-expression, object significance, realization, fear, obsession.
• MCU/MS for dialogue readability and neutral dramatic exchange.
• FS/WS for body behavior, blocking, environment relation, threat scale.
• EWS for spectacle, isolation, geography, or scale reset.

Angle Rules

• low angle: power, myth, threat, grandeur
• high angle: vulnerability, surveillance, exposure
• eye level: neutrality, realism, plain confrontation
• overhead: pattern, helplessness, tactical relation
• canted: instability or rupture

Coverage Rules

• Change shot size to change information priority.
• Avoid random shot variation; every shift must have dramatic logic.
• Preserve continuity of screen direction when cutting between angles.