The shots are the footage of the exact things that must be decided by the director, in the film, particularly with regard to sizes of these images, knowing that it is divided into three types:
1 - long shot, 2- medium shot, 3 - The distant close shot or what is called CLOSE UP.

- The long shot: In this shot, the subject of photography is shown in a large and clear way related to the surrounding in general, or with the surrounding environment, and this shot is usually used for the establishment of a Camera, or camera movements or physical activities, including dancing, skating.

- The Medium shot: Which is used when the person or an object moving is about to stop, and its close to the lens to show the expressions and features of the subject of photography, the process here is to show the body aimed to get close to the objects, to get to know how do they look like, and to reflect the most accurate and detailed features.

- The highest near shot: Or the CLOSE UP, which is a screenshot showing the body from the shoulders to the top of the head, and aims to demonstrate the gestures and insinuations made by the body and puts us close relationship of the subject, and that is used by directors to show the critical moments in the story.

Try to test these observations, and we hope that the outcome satisfies you, and do not hesitate to request further more instructions in other times, because you are the directors. Professor Claude Corvine, a professor of filmmaking at the Academy.

If we have the camera above the eye-level, and we look to the bottom, in the sense that the camera was the highest, shall be subject to photography, this shot shows the vulnerability of the person the subject of photography.
But to make the camera above the eye-level and we look to the top, it gives the status of power and control, or that the personal control of the scene.
This shows that we can use the footage as a worthy scene, and in the manner that serves the delivery of the idea of the scene, and can be considered as a suggestive shot, or to provide in a clear and obvious image view.
Often this decision is usually taken in the script, which separates the grounds of the scene here, and exit options become clearer on how it aims to tell the story is visible or not.
You could use the previous three images in any film project that you would like to direct, to consolidate.

Professor Claude Corvine, The professor of filmmaking at the Academy:

Claude illustrates in this film the most important decision that the director has to make, which lens that must be used? The choice of which depends on the nature of the photographed scene, and the dimensions that have to be shown. This is the center of what we are talking about today.

Claude says that the difference between the lens and the other is the size and dimensions of the figures that will appear in the picture; there are 3 types of lenses. Regular and large lens and the telephotographic Lens

1 - Regular lenses: The name is surprising to some of us, but it was named that way because in case we used one eye to see through it, and used the other to see with without a lens, the objects appear the same size with the same dimensions we could see by both eyes.

2 - If we wanted to enlarge the image in the eye of the camera, it requires the use of telephotographic lens; it is also called the distant lens.
3 - In case we wanted to minimize the things that could be seen by the naked eyes, using the wide lens is required.

However, these three lenses, as is common, couldn’t control the image more, techniques have been added to the video cameras which offer this process, through adding the ZOOM, a technique placed in all video cameras, and that what distinguishes the zoom, this technology will enable us to bring or remove the objects as we wish, ZOOM IN makes the objects closer while the ZOOM OUT moves the objects away. And show it smaller than real sizes.

Even though, the ZOOM technique is not what matters still, there are other things to distinguish between these lenses, and make the choice of any one of which could increase or decrease the quality of the film. This is to replace the spaces, and to make sure, it can apply the following example.

This will be done through the cooperation with the Academy, and Mary Roberts and Matthew Morhi, so we would take the images by the previous three lenses to see if there is any difference among them all.

Mathieu will stand behind Marie, a distance of 25 feet far, and we will take a shot from a regular lens, as the distance you can see between them appears closer than you would expect, and to maintain the dimensions of Mary’s face in the picture, with changing the distance between Mary and Matthew, where it appears too distant than the previous one, then the use of the broad lens is considered a must, where it is shown through applying that example. In this case, we have to move the Camera closer forward.

While through using the telephotographic lens, or the distant lens, in order to ensure the dimensions of the face of Mary in the picture, I have to attribute the camera backwards, where Mathieu seems very close to Marie, and even closer to her than in reality. The distance did not change.

As a conclusion, the distances between objects and the persons can be altered depending on number of facts, as through downsizing, compressing and expanding.

Remember what you will have to do, in the near future in order to catch something. This technology is not an option, but is the choice of innovation and creative, and helps to improve the quality of the film, which should be the fun part.

The use of video cameras is widespread and overwhelming these days. For this, I would like to give you some advice and guidance to make more of your films appear with a better quality.

The speech will be centered on the basic steps of filmmaking process, and would focus on the “Snapshots”.

The snapshot is termed the moment things that happen are filmed from the minute the director pronounces the word “Action”, up to his portrayal of the word “Cut”.

To simplify the matter, we would address a simple example, to compare between the director and the writer.

Imagine if we had a book, this book consists of chapters, and the chapters consist of paragraphs, and the paragraphs consist of sentences, and sentences consist of words, and words are basically nouns, adjectives and verbs. All the previous combine together and perform the book as a whole.

As well as the film is, a mixture of clips, the clips are made up of scenes, and the scenes as well, are made up of several shots.

Just as is the word to the writer, it is considered the smallest part of the book; the shot is considered the smallest part of the film. Its like the nouns, adjectives and verbs.

As the words to the writer, there is medium- long- and short, shots resemble the words to the director. They meet with each other to create scenes.

In directing a film, choices are not too many, especially that we choose our shots in particular for certain reasons to serve our story and present it in an interesting and attractive manner, and address it visually in a way that brings enjoyment to the viewers through the simplicity of the series presentation.
There are six basic types for a shot (Scene) to be taken:

1 - wide shot: Addresses important information in every scene, when is it filmed, place of filming, it shows the place of action and the doers in their overall general surrounding.

2 - The full Snapshot: The name attests its meaning, and gives a complete picture of the photographed person from head to toe or the objects the subject of photography.

3 -The medium shot: Or we could call it the American shot, the fact that Americans were the ones who innovate it, and they used to use it in the fifties to shoot the cowboy films, or films that were named so-called American West films, to show the guns and weapons, noted that it is frequently used by television channels, which take a medium-range model of the subject photography, or the person.

4 - The medium shot and the close high shot: A mixture of the medium-shot, and the close high shot, as it aim to highlight the facial features as the eyes for example, or to reflect the ideas and feelings that appear on the face of the actor, to deliver the idea in a direct and clear way

5 - The close high shot: Aims to make the scene dramatic and theatrical, and more influential. For that reason its widely used by the directors.

6 - The very close shot: Its too close from the actor and the subject model, so that it is focused on, and is used as a kind of a key influence, but if it was used frequently, it would lose its value as if we draw a line under each word in the text, and we highlight it, it becomes indistinguishable from others without any utility mentioned.

Acting can be traced back to 4000 BC, when it’s believed that Egyptian priests worshiped the dead by remembering them in performances. So while acting may have begun as an element of religion it slowly evolved to become entertainment.
Thespis introduced dramatic impersonation to Athens in 560 BC. 30 years later he won the first dramatic competition and is considered to be the world’s first actor. What was considered very good acting in ancient times—with actors using masks and exaggerated physical gestures to convey emotion—is today considered performance art or even mime. Acting, as we recognize it today, didn’t begin until 16th Century Italy when actors worked together to play out a story. Even then, performances were a far cry from what’s familiar to theatre and movie audiences in modern times.

Back in 1895, Louis Lumiéres changed the craft of acting forever when he introduced the first motion picture to the public. Although the film, La Sortie d’usine, was nothing more than a train moving on its tracks, the impact of his work on the future of acting was momentous. Until that time, it was not possible to capture a performance for future viewing. A great performance could only be experienced live, becoming nothing more than a memory after that.
Theater actors always seek to deliver realistic and moving performances, yet the demand of absolute authenticity on a film actor is so great that most theatre actors find it necessary to hone their craft specifically for the demands of modern filmmaking to deliver good performances in this medium.