Elements of Media: Composition

 Types of Shots and their effects:

• Look room: Is the space that is left in front of someone's face on the screen; gives the impression that the person is looking at or talking to somebody just off the screen [by not leaving enough look room the subject may appear to be confined].

• Negative space: the empty space around & between the subjects of an image.

• Positive space: Refers to the subject or the interesting areas. I.e; a person's face or figure.

• Rule of thirds: The four interesting points on the grid, important for the placement of subject.

• Depth of field: It is the distance between the nearest & the furthest objects that are in acceptably sharp focus in a image captured by a camera. There are two types;

    ~ shallow depth of field: small amount of           the image in focus.

    ~ wide depth of field: to have a large                   amount of image in focus.