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Building Video Literacy: Types of Shots

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What does it mean to be video literate? It means understanding that a video documentary is not a record of real life but a deliberately composed presentation of the author's point of view on the subject. Each part of the video is the result of specific choices made by the filmmaker. This document, developed by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, illustrates the different types of shots filmmakers use and explains the purposes of each.

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All the pictures in this chart are taken from the Wide Angle documentary "Time for School." It is important to notice that the definitions provided on the "Types of Shots" handout are relative rather than absolute, because the camera can potentially zoom in closer or zoom out farther on any shot. The screen-filling image of an eye can be an extreme close-up if it follows a shot of a person's face, and it can be a wide shot if it is followed by a microscopic image of an ocular blood vessel. How shots are sequenced is as important to their meaning as the sequence of words in a written text.

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