A shooting method includes the following steps. A current display page is displayed and controls in a control region of the current display page are also displayed, where the controls includes a main shooting control and at least two special effect controls; when a target slide operation acting on a main display region of the current display page is received, each control is controlled to move; when the target control is the special effect control, a shooting page and a preview effect of a target shoot special effect are displayed on the shooting page, and when a first trigger operation acting on the trigger position is detected, shooting is performed by using the target shooting special effect; and when the target control is the main shooting control, the shooting page is displayed, and when a second trigger operation acting on the trigger position is detected, the shooting is performed.