When working with a handheld video camera, it’s common to shoot everything as a close-up. The LCD screen on your video camera is often so small that it makes your subject look boring unless you get in really tight.
Fight this urge and trust that when you see the video on your television or Mac, filling the entire screen with just a face will make your audience a little uncomfortable. The medium shot, showing two or more characters onscreen or one character from the waist up, is the kind of image viewers are used to seeing in TV shows and movies.