Camera shot types

1. A long shot tends to show the whole body,
they are used in situations where it is
portraying the size of someone, for example
in the bottom right photo they have edited
it so that it looks like Florence is larger than
some of the monuments of the world. They
are also used in magazines where the main
artist in the image may be holding a prop,
they would use long shot then as you can
get the whole prop in the photo, this is
shown in the image on the left where the
artist is holding a guitar. They are also used
where the artist is in a weird pose where it
needs to be a long shot photo to get the
whole pose in, this is like the image in the
top right with Jessie J.

2. Medium shot is the most used
camera shot for front covers of
magazines, this is because you can
see the persons body language,
facial expression and what their
clothing/accessories are. In most
medium shots they will look
straight at the camera, this makes
it look like they’re staring straight
at the reader. Medium shots can
also involve props like on the NME
Magazine cover, the clothes they
wear represents the genre of the
Magazine strongly.

3. Close-up shots focus on the subject’s
face. Many of them gain the viewers
attention because you don’t normally
see a person’s face that close up in real
life unless you are standing right in
front of them, it makes you feel like
you are close to the artist, the artist is
also looking right at the reader. They
display the most detail but they do not
show the subject in the broad context
of its surroundings.
Music magazines would not
really use Extreme close-up
photos, this is because they are
normally used to show detail
within the eye or parts of the
body, but they would not be
used for music magazines.