Terminology

Monday 19th November 2018

Camera work:

establishing shots: The first shot of a new scene, designed to show the audience where it is taking place.

Low angle: A shot anywhere below the eye-line, looking up.


High angle: Technique where they are looking down on the subject. it also makes the subject look less powerful.


Canted angle: slant towards one side sometimes used for a dramatic affect.


Aerial shots: a higher up angle shot to make scenes more dramatic.


Elaborate camera movement such as tracks,steadicam or crane shots:

Hand held camera: camera is held in the camera operators hand rather than being mounted on a tripod.

Point of view shots: shows what the character or subject is looking at. 

Shallow focus: one part of the image is in focus and the rest of it out of focus.


focus pulls: change focus during the shot means adjusting the focus from one subject to another.

Editing: 

Shot: is a series of frames that run for an uninterrupted period of time.


reverse shot: Where on character is looking at a different character off scene and the other character is shown looking back at the first character.

Juxtaposition: A montage of combining two or more shots to evoke an idea or state of mind.

Non-continuity editing: to create an illusion of smooth continues action and helps to keep the audiences attention to the story.


Crosscutting: illustrates a narrative action that happens in several places at the same time.


fast-paced editing: used to convey a lot of information very quickly.


Less common transitions: dissolve, wipe, fade: transitions are used to change one thing to another.

post-production effects: film editor work with raw footage and edits them into a sequence which creates a finished motion picture.


Sound Track:

Music: A music director would select the music used in films.

Diegetic sound: sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film.


non-diegetic sound:sound whose source is neither visible on the screen or has been implied to be present in the action.

sound effects: a sound other than speech or music made artificially for use in films and plays.


sound bridge: a sound bridge is a the of sound editing that occurs when sound carries over a visual transition in a film.


voiceover: is a production technique where a voice that is not part of the narrative is used.

mise en scene:

Lighting: illumination by which the objects within the frame can be seen.


Location/set: Those elements within the frame that function to depict space, place, and time period.


Costume and makeup: the clothing and attire of characters, Pigments and materials applied to figures to construct their characters.


props: props are being used are part of the frame arrangement.

Casting and performance style:

blocking (the composition of elements within the shot):
Blocking was originally a theatre term that refers to the positioning and movement of the actors in the stage.


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