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medium shot en · NOUN
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A shot (snapshot or series of film exposures) taken from enough distance to show a character from the waist on up, wider than a close up but tighter than a medium long shot.
The film then cuts to a medium shot, not of Marguerite but of Faust looking in the girl's direction with the devil posed somewhat artistically behind him, and the two begin to sing.
2014, Jennifer Fleeger, Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz, page 81:
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