Film glossary definition for:
Discovery Shot
In the process of filming a scene, camera angles and movements provide a great deal of objective knowledge for the viewer. While the camera is in motion across a specific setting, it will find an individual or object previously undisclosed to the audience. This is a discovery shot. On some occasions a discovery shot will disclose through a particular angle or motion, a reference that the producer, director, camera operator or writer had not considered. This is a "discovery shot" that can add an interesting or substantive twist to the plot of the story-line.