Close Ups are probably the best known shot and is the one we are drawn to the most. This shot is all about the character, about getting into their space, feeling their emotions and smelling their bad breath. Backgrounds and other characters become secondary or non-existent. This is the featured character’s moment.
Distance wise, we are looking at shoulders and up or an equivalent shot of another body part....is anyone else’s mind in the gutter at this moment?
With comics, close ups should be used sparingly. They are your money shot on a page and you want to keep its impact. If a page is full of close ups they start to loose their power, like when you hear a song over and over again. It looses something each time. If you rely heavily on close ups, you’ll end up having to push in closer and closer to re-find that emotion. Eventually, you might end up with shot of the character’s DNA!
The same is somewhat true for films, but not as a strict rule. Films have many more images to play with, more time to work with, and other ways to vary up a close up (sound, movement, actors acting). It would be interesting to see if a short film could pull off telling a whole story with just close ups.
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