shot distances and examples

True grit 2010 (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen) close up of Josh Brolin, Showing the audience his dry skin and injuries which gives the film a sense of context and shows off the minor details in the film. It also allows the audience to emphasise with the character because of the emotion in his face.

This close up runs through all the iron man and avenger films, these shots help the audience to appreciate Tony Stark as being a person not a machine, and to remind us there is an actual human inside the suit.

Long distance shot in Dunkirk (2017, Christopher Nolan) of a man walking into the sea. the long shot emphasis him leaving the beach behind.

This is a medium distance shot of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) This shot involves getting not all the body in the frame but most of it to get a sense of what the character is doing. if this was a close up we would have no idea that she is holding a bow but a long shot wouldn’t capture her emotion.