Thursday, 9 September 2010

Shot reverse shot

Shot reverse shot is a filming technique.
Basically, the camera frames one of the characters speaking usually from the point of view of the charater they are speaking to or behind the shoulder, and as each speaker talks the shot changes from character to character depending on who is speaking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqzO_Bf76VQ&feature=related
This example shows two girls having a heated comnversation for the first 7 seconds of the video. And as you can see Shot reverse shot has been used as a technique.

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