What is Head Room? | Filmmaking Basics

What is head room? Head room is one of those fundamental compositional tools that most shooters learn very early in their photography and videography rules.

The head room definition is simply the amount of space between the top of your subjects head and the top of the frame. Too much head room and your composition can feel unbalanced and top heavy. Too little headroom and you start to crop into a persons body in a weird way, feeling claustrophobic and uncomfortable.

In this video we cover the head room meaning, as well as provide you for an excellent guideline for how to achieve a good amount of head room in many shooting scenarios. We also look at a few ways you can then break these rules for dramatic and emotional effect.

CONTENTS:
00:00 - What is headroom?
00:30 - How much headroom? Too little vs too much headroom
00:58 - The goal of headroom
01:18 - Intro to the rule of thirds
01:40 - Headroom and the rule of thirds
02:12 - When the rule of thirds doesn't quite work
02:17 - Headroom for wide shots
02:35 - Headroom for big close-ups
02:56 - What are these shot sizes?
03:06 - These are just a guide
03:16 - When to bend and break the rules
03:30 - Using headroom for dramatic effect
04:20 - Outro / looking room and lead room

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