Sources
The vocabulary and the two-person dialogue recipe follow these. The other coverage recipes are arrangements of the same building blocks; check them against Katz.
Vocabulary
- StudioBinder: 50+ types of camera shots, angles and techniques All four categories on one page, with clips and free shot list downloads.
- Shot sizes, camera angles, camera movements One deeper StudioBinder page per category.
- Shot list abbreviations The short codes Take One uses.
The line and coverage
- StudioBinder: the 180-degree rule With examples of breaking it on purpose.
- Wikipedia: camera coverage The master scene method, with textbook references.
- Wolfcrow: how to master coverage in 3 ways Hollywood system, BBC system, one take. Seven to ten shots for a two-person scene.
- PremiumBeat: shooting a dialogue scene Short and practical.
Books
- Steven D. Katz, Film Directing: Shot by Shot (25th anniversary edition) The standard text on staging and coverage. Read the Workshop chapters first.
- Blain Brown, Cinematography: Theory and Practice (4th edition) Vocabulary, coverage and lenses in depth.
- Gustavo Mercado, The Filmmaker’s Eye One shot type per spread, with a frame and why it works.
- Judith Weston, Directing Actors Not about shots. About the two people in front of the camera.