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Shot sizes & framing · Core

Frontal framing

Also called: head-on framing

ELI5

A composition in which the subject faces the camera relatively directly.

Used in conversation

“The treatment uses the frontal framing to control what the audience notices first.”

Pitch context

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Why it matters: Explains what the image should look like and how it can be framed, captured and lit.

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Sources & evidence · 5

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.