medium shot

Noun

Meaning

medium shot (plural medium shots)

(photography, cinematography) A shot (snapshot or series of film exposures) taken from enough distance to show a character from the waist on up, wider than a close up but tighter than a medium long shot.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

kinescope

Examples

Prawer, p. 28 These shots, starting with a medium shot and culminating in two close-ups of the Monster's face, were repeated by Whale to introduce Griffin in The Invisible Man and the abusive husband in One More River. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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