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wide shot

wide shot noun: a film or video recording made with the camera positioned to observe the most action in the performance.

Noun

wide shot (plural wide shots)

  1. A film or video recording made with the camera positioned to observe the most action in the performance.
    • That post-battle wide shot showing a castle full of bodies and basically only Tormund, Gendry, and Grey Worm still standing was the equivalent of the show saying anyone on screen not wearing a “Hello, my name is…” tag needed to lie down and die.2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 May 2021

Forms of wide shot

pluralwide shots

Questions about wide shot

What does wide shot mean?
Wide shot means a film or video recording made with the camera positioned to observe the most action in the performance.
What part of speech is wide shot?
Wide shot is a noun.
What is the plural of wide shot?
The plural of wide shot is wide shots.

Words near wide shot in the dictionary

  1. wide place in the road
  2. wide places in the road
  3. wide receiver
  4. wide receivers
  5. Wide SCSI
  6. wide shot
  7. wide shots
  8. wide shut
  9. wide spot in the road
  10. wide spots in the road
  11. wide stance

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