medium shot

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English

Noun

medium shot (plural medium shots)

  1. (photography, cinematography) A shot (snapshot or series of film exposures) taken from enough distance to show a character from the waist on up, wider than a close up but tighter than a medium long shot.
    • 2014, Jennifer Fleeger, Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz, page 81:
      The film then cuts to a medium shot, not of Marguerite but of Faust looking in the girl's direction with the devil posed somewhat artistically behind him, and the two begin to sing.