Camera shots and moves

Camera Shots :

A Wide Shot: set's the scene. The subject will be small in frame.

A Long Shot: The subject is shown from head to toe.

A Medium Shot: The subject is shown from the waist up.

A Medium close up: Is where the subject is shown from the chest (or pecks) up.

A Close up: The subject is shown only head and shoulders.

A Big/Extreme close-up: Forhead - Chin is shown

In all shots excluding the Big/extreme close-up) there needs to be a decent amount of headroom. And also the subject's eyes have to be on the top third of the frame.

Camera movements:

Pan - Panning is the horizontal movement, you can pan a camera left and right.

Tilt - Tilting is the vertical movement, you can tilt a camera up or down.

Ped - Pedding is moving the camera pedestal vertically. Either up or down.

Tracking - Tracking is moving the cameras pedestal which is usually on wheels up or down.

Crabbing - Crabbing is moving the cameras pedestal left to right.