In film, each scene is made up of shots to build coverage to edit together a final scene. There is a language to film, and if we think of it in terms of actual language, then we could think of a scene as a sentence. In this case, camera shots would be words, coverage would be the collection of words we’ve chosen to use to form that sentence, and editing would be the organization of those words to form the final coherent and hopefully emotionally impactful visual sentence. Before we can build our visual sentence, we must first understand all the words (shot types) we can choose from.

My name is Isaac Albert, welcome to this course The Art of Visual Storytelling with Framing Sizes and Camera Lenses in Cinematography. With years of knowledge in filmmaking and training film students all over the world, I am confident that you’d be well equipped with the fundamentals of cinematography to get you started in your filmmaking journey. Camera shots are the essential aspect of filmmaking and video productions. By combining different types of shots, angles, and camera movements, the filmmakers can emphasize specific emotions, ideas, and moments for each scene.

I created this course in response to some of the biggest questions I get asked all the time which are:

• What camera shots sizes can I use?
• Why and when should I use them?
• What camera Lenses should I use for a different shot?
• Why should I use them?

Amateurs will just point a camera at a bunch of actors and record the scene. But experienced filmmakers don’t just make recordings. They tell stories visually. And there’s a big difference.

framing a scene from a different camera point of view can help you give the viewers multiple perspectives of what they are looking at. It can help them understand the scene and pull the viewers into the story world.

When it comes to shot types and framing sizes, there is a great deal of confusion out there by hundreds of online courses, filmmaking blogs, tutorials, and filmmakers’ programs. Many of them refer to shot sizes differently causing beginners to mix up the actual concepts and theories of cinematography. For example, making it difficult for beginners to understand that shot size, shot types, framing sizes, and camera sizes all mean the same thing in filmmaking. All these gaps and many more puzzles will be solved along the primary goal of this course. To train you heavily on the use and craft of cinematography basic tools for professional narrative storytelling. Whomever you want to be in the screen industry, you need the basics. Take this course as a solid foundation for becoming a professional filmmaking cinematographer.