Close up film

Requiem for a Dream (ass to ass)

Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in…

This still film shot using 'Extreme close up' and using 'Shallow depth of field' is a very clever technique. Using the reflection of the persons eyes shows the audience what they are looking at, why they are coming across in that way through emotion.

Nema-ye Nazdik (Close-up), Abbas Kiarostami (1990)

What It Is: Psycho Screenshots Why I Like It: It depicts prominant scenes within Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' that suit the genre of 'suspense'. The camera shots used within the film made it stand out amongst other horror films, therefore making it unique and memorable. For example, extreme close ups are extensively used for effect.

One of the first things students are taught in film school is the nomenclature of the basic types of camera shots. This common language is essential…