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wide shots

wide shots is the plural of wide shot.

Meaning of wide shot

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

Questions about wide shots

What is wide shots the plural of?
Wide shots is the plural of wide shot.

Words near wide shots in the dictionary

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

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