For this post, I decided to do the first Lord of the Rings movie and it was tough choosing what sequence I should do because almost all of this movie is pure gold for shots and framing. I went with the council of Elrond because I feel that it has a great variety of framing throughout the entire sequence.
extreme long shot (landscape and architecture)
close up (face)
high longshot
medium longshot
extreme closeup(Frodo’s hand and the One Ring)
medium(Waist up Frodo and Gandalf)
extreme close up (The One Ring and the reflection of the Council of Elrond)
medium (waist up of Bormir probably the perceptive of the Hobbits)
pov and/or extreme close up (Borimir reaching for the One Ring)
low long shoot(Gandalf talking in the black speech of Mordor)
another close up of the One Ring
longshot(full body of the council)
close up(Aragorn’s face)
Longshot(fullish body)
Medium waist up(also a great shot to show the scale of hobbits)
Close up (one does not simply do framing for Lord of the rings)
extreme close up( the one ring and the council arguing)
Longshot full body( another great scale of the hobbits)
medium (from the pov of Frodo)
medium close up(Frodo Merry and Pippin)
Medium( of the entire fellowship).
There are many medium shots because Peter Jackson(the director) was probably aiming to show the scale of the hobbits in regards to the rest of middle-earth. The close ups of the Ring was done since the ring itself is basically a character all of its own. Through the editing and framing we can see how each race(elf, dwarf, man, and hobbit) interact with each other and how the ring corrupts people. The close ups were fairly important important to convey how each character was feeling without having to explain too much.