For example, a shot of a zombie getting its head cut off may, for instance, start with a view of an axe being swung through the air, followed by a close-up of the actor swinging it, then followed by a cut back to the now severed head.

There are more exact terms to use when the new, inserted shot is another view of actors: close-up, head shot, knee shot, two shot.

The dividing line between " long shot " and " medium shot " is fuzzy, as is the line between " medium shot " and " close-up ".

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.

In the opening scene, wherein Joe shoots an unarmed man: Joe's revolver is shown in close-up, when he rolls a cigarette, when Dude pours a shot of whiskey back into the bottle ; and a close-up of a beer glass where a drop of blood falls in, alerting Dude to a gunman in the bar waiting above him in ambush.

Most notably, apart from a few brief shots ( a close-up of Lennon lip-synching and a shot of the group under a tree miming playing their instruments ) the " Rain " clip virtually abandons any pretense of performance and has no obvious narrative structure.

Of particular note in this film is the fact that there is only one close-up of a face-the “ I am thinking about the design ” shot.

The spot ends with a close-up shot of a small white paper bag, presumably filled with Jack in the Box food, dropping forcefully onto a table ; the bag is printed with the words " Jack's Back " in bold red print, then another bag drops down with the Jack in the Box logo from that period.

McKenzie is presented as the first and greatest innovator of modern cinema, single-handedly inventing the tracking shot ( by accident ), the close-up ( unintentionally ), and both sound and color film years before their historically documented creation.

* March 23: D. W Griffith shows the first major close-up shot on film with the successful release of The Lonedale Operator proving his ever growing mastery of how to utilise film.

A close-up shot of rock in the mountains surrounding Queenstown

" Each program was shot in real time with two cameras: a medium shot of Ross and his canvas, and a close-up shot of the canvas or palette.

In August 2007, a Singaporean pub, Loof, sent an electronic direct mailer ( e-flyer ) to at least 1, 500 members on its mailing list featuring a close-up shot of the crotch of a female model wearing a red swimsuit or pair of underpants bearing the crescent and five stars of the national flag.

Four panels are seen, and the camera moves in a clockwise motion so that all of the frames can be seen in close-up.

Full reading glasses are more suitable for people who only need them for close-up reading while half-eye reading glasses can be used to read at smaller or larger distances.

This can be seen in the close-up picture, full draw, the archer has the ' long side ' of the cam.

The wild dogs can be viewed close-up from a glass-fronted viewing pavilion.

After Carnage removes Joker's chip, the two psychotics briefly enter into an alliance before their differing methods of murder cause a clash ; Carnage favors numbers and actually seeing the death of his victims close-up in his murder sprees while the Joker prefers the artistry of his usual traps and tricks, Carnage dismissing the Joker's methods as slow while Joker sees Carnage as an amateur as anyone can just go out and kill people.

Sleight of hand is mostly employed in close-up magic, but it can also be used in stage magic.

Several close-up lenses may be used in combination ; the optical power of the combination is the sum of the optical powers of the component lenses ; a set of lenses of + 1, + 2, and + 4 diopters can be combined to provide a range from + 1 to + 7 in steps of 1.

It is currently ( with very little fuss ) in an exhibition on Relics in the British Museum until early October 2011, where it can be seen well-lit and close-up.

Other bottom filled hummingbird feeders can be attached to one's window to provide a close-up of the birds.

In another type of performance setting, a close-up coin magician ( or ' coin worker ') will use a large video projector so the audience can see the magic on a big screen.

You can get a sense of how many scenes had to be altered, by how many times this close-up drawing was used.

His main arsenal is a blaster, while players can also melee close-up enemies and use a limited numbers of grenades.

Customers can view products in precise detail from different angles and use a SuperZoom feature to get an exceptional close-up look at the details of each item.

The sequence begins with a close-up on Larry and Balki on the back of a tour boat heading east down the Chicago River, then zooming out to show them traveling under the Irv Kupcinet Bridge ( the Wrigley Building and the now-demolished Sun-Times building can be seen in the background ).

A curious yet amusing visual technique in the game can be observed when facing the various bosses ; when seen in close-up, their faces are blurred with mosaics, and a mug shot of the individual boss has the eyes concealed with a black bar, despite their names still visible.

Stern's hands can be seen in the close-up shots from the movie.

Flair can include juggling, flipping ( bottles, shakers ), manipulating flaming liquors or even performing close-up magic tricks ( also referred to as " bar-magic ").

Low angle shots in medium close-up on a person can point to their power, but it can also point to ridicule because of the distortion factor.

If the effect is featured in a close-up, the designer may also add an " impact sweetener " from his or her library.

Cineaste also credited Beban for his intense performance, commenting on the fight sequence in which Beban's character " seethes with murderous determination " as the camera focuses on his face in an extreme close-up: " Beban's sudden transformation from amiability to wrath recalls the first glimpse of Spencer Tracy after nearly being lynched in Fritz Lang's Fury.

* Faith No More lead singer Mike Patton also showed he was obviously miming a performance by sticking his tongue out of the side of his mouth during close-up shots.

This fictitious document is destroyed during the film's action ; the film also includes a close-up of the real Gwinnett's signature on the Declaration of Independence.

Most of the effects are also live-action ( wires and such ), but one scene of a dinner making itself was done using stop-motion, and was presented in a tight close-up that allowed budding animators to study it for technique.

Since then, the Chinese linking rings have also become a favourite performance item for close-up magicians.

The dinosaur itself was animated by Don Waller, who also had a cameo in the same sequence, reacting to the rampaging creature in a tight close-up.

Nelson, who also appeared in the movie in a minor role, pushed the depiction of the violence to explicit levels, showing nudity during rape scenes, as well as realistic close-up shots of bullets ripping into flesh.

In 1901 James Williamson, also working in Hove, made perhaps the most extreme close-up of all in The Big Swallow, when his character approaches the camera and appears to swallow it.

The band also invited fans to submit close-up shots of their faces in order to make 2, 000 different individual covers for the album.

The first shot of the bullet exiting the barrel of the gun was shot in close-up, with the barrel removed from the frame of the gun locked-off pointing downwards but with the camera also turned on its side, framing the barrel horizontally, but pointing down toward the floor.

They also created separate hands and a chest to film for close-up shots.

Cinematographic techniques are also employed in the novel, with the idea of the montage and the close-up, which effectively combine the comic and grotesque with the dramatic and tragic.

A close-up view of the characteristic spikelet on the blade's tip is also shown.

The similarities occur with strong outlines, unusual angles, including close-up views and also flattish local colour ( not modelled according to the fall of light ).

Japanese gardens also follow the principles of perspective of Japanese landscape painting, which feature a close-up plane, an intermediate plane, and a distant plane.

CRAF was also to provide the first close-up look at how a comet's coma and its tail of dust and ions form.

This would be due to the very same prescription that is tailored for use at a 12-to-20-foot distance also commonly being used for close-up work as well, thus artificially amplifying the focusing stress that would normally be presented to the accommodation mechanisms of the eye at that distance.

* Then there were also the close-up shots of the people in the boat.

Besides some literary cameos in renowned movies ( an example of which is Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, at the start of which an issue of Paris Herald-Tribune is shown in close-up to highlight a column bylined by Buchwald about jewel thefts on the French Riviera setting up the plot ) Buchwald also participated to the English dialogues of Jacques Tati's Play Time.

In 2007 he was voted the 15th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups and again in the updated 2010 list as the 33rd greatest stand-up comic. His controversial style has also influenced a whole generation of comedians and he is widely acclaimed as one of the best close-up magicians in the world.

Many scenes, including fight scenes, also included brief close-up bits of stock footage of the real Bruce Lee from his pre-Enter the Dragon films, often only lasting a second or two.