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Part 1: Shots and shot composition

Part 1: Shots and shot composition

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Part 1: Shots and shot composition

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- Let's take some time and talk about shots and shot composition. One way to understand visual storytelling is that shots are the words that make up your scenes, and scenes are the sentences that tell your story, right? If you're thinking about prose, words make up sentences, sentences combine to tell the story the way you want to tell it, and it's the same thing with moving pictures. Shots make up scenes, scenes combine to tell your story in the way you want to tell it. So, the key, right? Is picking the right shots for the right moment in the right scenes. That is, shots that are appropriate to the scene that you are working on. And in order to do that, it's good to have an understanding of what the elements of a shot are, and how choices about which elements to employ and how to employ them is going to affect the feeling of the shot that it conveys to the audience. So, when you're on set, and describing a shot, shots…

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