MovieShots is a dataset to facilitate the shot type analysis in videos. It is a large-scale shot type annotation set that contains 46K shots from 7,858 movies covering a wide variety of movie genres to ensure the inclusion of all scale and movement types of shot. Each shot has two attributes, shot scale and shot movement.

Shot scale has five categories: 1) long shot (LS) is taken from a long distance, sometimes as far as a quarter of a mile away; 2) full shot (FS) barely includes the human body in full; 3) medium shot (MS) contains a figure from the knees or waist up; 4) close-up shot (CS) concentrates on a relatively small object, showing the face of the hand of a person; (5) extreme close-up shot (ECS) shows even smaller parts such as the image of an eye or a mouth.

Shot movement has four categories: 1) in static shot, the camera is fixed but the subject is flexible to move; 2) for motion shot, the camera moves or rotates; 3) the camera zooms in for push shot, and 4) zooms out for pull shot. While all the four movement types are widely used in movies, the use of push and pull shots only takes a very small portion. The usage of different shots usually depends on the movie genres and the preferences of the filmmakers.