In photography , filmmaking and video production , a wide shot (sometimes referred to as a full shot or long shot ) is a shot that typically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings. These are typically shot now using wide-angle lenses (an approximately 25 mm lens in 35 mm photography and 10 mm lens in 16 mm photography). However, due to sheer distance, establishing shots and extremely wide shots can use almost any camera type.
27-515: (Redirected from Longshots ) [REDACTED] Look up long shot or longshot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Longshot or long shot may refer to: a contender (such as a racehorse ) that appears to have little or no chance of winning Long shot in photography and cinema, an image or scene filmed with a long lens Characters [ edit ] Longshot (Marvel Comics) ,
54-470: A 1959 Canadian current affairs television series Long Shot (Niven) , a spacecraft from Larry Niven's Ringworld series "Long Shot" ( The Professionals) , an episode of the television series "Long Shot", a season 3 episode of The Casagrandes Project Longshot , a design for an interstellar spacecraft "Long Shot", a short story by Vernor Vinge Long Shot , a memoir about former Major League Baseball player Mike Piazza Longshot CS-6 ,
81-536: A 1986 comedy film directed by Paul Bartel Longshot (film) , a 2000 film starring Hunter Tylo The Long Shot , a 2004 Hallmark Channel film, starring Julie Benz The Longshots , a 2008 film starring Ice Cube and Keke Palmer Long Shot: The Kevin Laue Story , a 2013 documentary film by Franklin Martin Long Shot (2017 film) , a documentary directed by Jacob LaMendola Long Shot (2019 film) ,
108-691: A 2006 Nerf blaster released under the N-Strike|N-Strike series Longshot CS-12 , a 2014 Nerf blaster released under the Z.E.D Squad sub-series of the Zombie Strike series a variation of the Hookshot in the Legend of Zelda series Longshot , the name of a single-player game mode in Madden NFL 18 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
135-500: A Marvel Comics superhero Caine the Longshot, a character in the anime series Trigun Longshot, member of "The Freedom Fighters" led by Jet, a character from the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender Film [ edit ] Long Shot (1939 film) , an American film directed by Charles Lamont Long Shot , a British film of 1978 Longshot (1981 film), a film starring Leif Garrett The Longshot ,
162-555: A film starring Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron Music [ edit ] The Longshot (band) , an American rock band Long Shot , a 1969 album, or its 1968 title song, by the Pioneers "Long Shot" (Aimee Mann song) , 1996 "Long Shot" (Baillie & the Boys song) , 1988 "Longshot" (Catfish and the Bottlemen song) , 2019 "Long Shot" (Kelly Clarkson song) , 2008 "Longshot",
189-469: A song by Common Rider , 2001 "Longshot", a song by John Fogerty from Revival , 2007 "Longshot", a song by Waking Ashland from I Am for You , 2004 "Long shot", a song by Mayu Maeshima, opening music for Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World , 2021 Other uses [ edit ] Long Shot , an atomic weapons test, carried out on Amchitka island in 1965 Long Shot (TV series) ,
216-516: A variety of ways of framing that are considered as being wide shots; these include: Many directors are known for their use of the variety of wide shots. A key example of them is the frequent use of establishing shots and very wide shots in Peter Jackson 's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, showing the vast New Zealand landscape to instil awe in the audience. In the 1993 film Schindler's List , there
243-463: A wide angle layout as it was the best way to keep everything visible for the viewer. Once motion pictures became more available in the 1890s, there were public screenings of many different films only being around a minute long, or even less. These films again adhered to the wide shot style. One of the first competitive filming techniques came in the form of the close-up, as George Albert Smith incorporated them into his film Hove . Though unconfirmed as
270-475: Is a running image of a small girl trapped within a concentration camp wearing a red coat (the only colour in the film). She is frequently pictured in a wide shot format as a way to display both her and the horrific surroundings to build a disturbing contrast. In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz , a very wide shot is used that keeps all the protagonists on screen with the Wizard's palace in clear view. The Wizard of Oz
297-510: Is stranded on Mars and the film contains many wide shots. These are used to show the Martian landscape and give the character the sense of isolation that the film would want. Vernor Vinge Vernor Steffen Vinge ( / ˈ v ɜːr n ər ˈ v ɪ n dʒ iː / ; October 2, 1944 – March 20, 2024) was an American science fiction author and professor. He taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University . He
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#1733104253004324-766: The Hugo Award (tying for Best Novel with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis ) with his 1992 novel, A Fire Upon the Deep . A Deepness in the Sky (1999) was a prequel to Fire , following competing groups of humans in The Slow Zone as they struggle over who has the rights to exploit a technologically emerging alien culture. Deepness won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2000. His novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High and The Cookie Monster also won Hugo Awards in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Vinge's 2006 novel Rainbows End , set in
351-573: The June 1965 issue of the British magazine New Worlds . His second, " Bookworm, Run! ", was in the March 1966 issue of Analog Science Fiction , then edited by John W. Campbell . The story explores the theme of artificially augmented intelligence by connecting the brain directly to computerized data sources. He became a moderately prolific contributor to SF magazines in the 1960s and early 1970s. In 1969, he expanded
378-409: The current climate of films, the technical quality of any given shot will appear with much better clarity which has given life to some incredible shots from modern cinema. Also, given the quality of modern home entertainment mediums such as Blu-ray, 3D and Ultra HD Blu Rays, this has allowed the scope and size of any given frame to encompass more of the scene and environment in greater detail. There are
405-400: The dangerous scale of a boulder that is chasing the protagonist. The 2008 film The Dark Knight featured a practical stunt in which a large truck and trailer are flipped nose first. This is shot very far back to give the shot more clarity and to see the flip through its entirety as opposed to cutting midway through. In the 2015 Ridley Scott film The Martian , the protagonist Mark Watney
432-429: The first usage of this method, it is one of the earliest recorded examples. Once the introduction of new framing techniques were introduced, more and more styles were developed and used for the benefits they could provide that wide shots couldn't. In the early 1900s, motion pictures evolved from short, minute long, screenings to becoming full-length motion pictures. More and more cinematic techniques appeared, resulting in
459-401: The same universe and featuring some of the same characters as Fast Times at Fairmont High , won the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novel. In 2011, he released The Children of the Sky , a sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep set approximately 10 years following the end of A Fire Upon the Deep . Vinge retired in 2000 from teaching at San Diego State University , in order to write full-time. He
486-463: The spread of a future libertarian society, and deal with the impact of a technology which can create impenetrable force fields called ' bobbles '. These books built Vinge's reputation as an author who would explore ideas to their logical conclusions in particularly inventive ways. Both books were nominated for the Hugo Award , but lost to novels by William Gibson and Orson Scott Card . Vinge won
513-741: The story "Grimm's Story" ( Orbit 4 , 1968) into his first novel, Grimm's World . In 1971, Vinge received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego , under the supervision of Stefan E. Warschawski . His second novel, The Witling , was published in 1976. Vinge came to prominence in 1981 with his novella True Names , perhaps the first story to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace , which would later be central to cyberpunk stories by William Gibson , Neal Stephenson and others. His next two novels, The Peace War (1984) and Marooned in Realtime (1986), explore
540-468: The title Longshot . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Longshot&oldid=1225121947 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages long shot This type of filmmaking
567-404: The wide shot being less commonly used. However, it still remained as it is almost irreplaceable in what it can achieve. When television entered the home in the 1960s, it was seen as a massive hit to the cinema industry and many saw it as the decline in cinema popularity. This in turn resulted in films having to stay ahead of television by incorporating superior quality than that of a television. This
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#1733104253004594-635: Was Writer Guest of Honor at ConJosé , the 60th World Science Fiction Convention in 2002. Additionally, Vinge served on the Free Software Foundation 's selection committee for their Award for the Advancement of Free Software for most of the years between 1999 and his death in 2024. His former wife, Joan D. Vinge , is also a science fiction author. They were married from 1972 to 1979. Vernor Vinge died in La Jolla, California on March 20, 2024, at
621-423: Was a huge step towards complete motion pictures. It is arguable that it is very basic but it still remains that it was displayed as a wide angle as both the rider and horse are fully visible in the frame. In the 1880s, celluloid photographic film and motion picture cameras became available so more motion pictures could be created in the form of Kinetoscope or through projectors. These early films also maintained
648-433: Was a result of filmmakers trying to retain the sense of the viewer watching a play in front of them, as opposed to just a series of pictures. The wide shot has been used since films have been made as it is a very basic type of cinematography . In 1878, one of the first true motion pictures, Sallie Gardner at a Gallop , was released. Even though this wouldn't be considered a film in the current motion picture industry, it
675-466: Was also one of the first mainstream motion pictures to include colour. The 1962 Lawrence of Arabia contains an enormous number of extreme wide shots which successfully induced the feeling of scale of the lead in his surrounding and aesthetically dwarfed him due to his surroundings making him seem more vulnerable and weak. The 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark contains the use of a wide shot to show
702-408: Was done by adding color, but importantly it implemented the use of widescreen. This would allow a massive increase in space usable by the director, thus allowing an even wider shot for the viewer to witness more of any given shot. Modern films will now frequently use the different types of wide shots as they are a staple in filmmaking and are almost impossible to avoid unless deliberately chosen to. In
729-431: Was the first wide-scale popularizer of the technological singularity concept and among the first authors to present a fictional " cyberspace ". He won the Hugo Award for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and Rainbows End (2006), and novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2001) and The Cookie Monster (2004). Vinge published his first short story, "Apartness", in
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