wide shot

English

wide shot (plural wide shots)

(film) A film or video recording made with the camera positioned to observe the most action in the performance.
- 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^[1], archived from the original on 31 May 2021:
  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.

A shot with the camera positioned to observe the most action in the proformance