Shots, Angles, Movement, Composition
usually shows a location.
What is an establishing shot?
sound within the diegesis, which the characters can hear.
What is diegetic sound?
Lighting from the sun. No artificial lighting is used in the scene.
What is natural lighting?
Where one shot replaces the next.
What is a straight cut?
Signs are culturally dependent. Our cultural background may lead us to interpret signs differently.
What is the Roland Barthes Theory?
the audience are able to read the body language of the character. Furthermore, the audience are able to see the character in his immediate surroundings.
What is a mid shot?
sound that does not match the on-screen visuals – there is no visible source for the sound.
What is nonsynchronous sound?
The way characters react, gesture, and move their body.
What is body language?
Cutting on two-similar-shaped objects, often signifying a passing of time or change in location.
What is a graphic match?
Focuses on how media producers construct and mediate representations of individuals, groups, and events.
What is the Stuart Hall Theory?
involves the camera physically moving through a scene.
What is a dolly shot?
audio transition to help a text move into a new scene. A sound will start in one shot and be carried over to the next.
What is a sound bridge?
The main source of light in a source.
What is the key light?
What is parallel editing?
Includes the concepts of equilibrium, disequilibrium, and new equilibrium.
What is the Tzvetan Todorov Theory?
broken into thirds – referred to as the rule of thirds.
What is framing?
the distance of a sound. The audibility of a sound will signify how close the audience is to its source.
the decoration of a room and the props used in a scene should always be analysed.
What is the set design?
involves the omission of footage because it is deemed unnecessary, and the audience naturally fills in the gaps.
What is an ellipsis?
Genres rely on repeated elements as well as elements of difference.
this is used to change what is sharp and what is out of focus during a shot.
What is a focus pull?
this is a sound attributed and associated with a particular character or action.
What is a sound motif?
The contrast between light and dark in a scene. It is more dramatic than low-key lighting and will create harsh shadows.
What is chiaroscuro?
Used to show characters conversing. The shots are typically over the shoulder shots. The editor will assemble shots that have been taken from a two-camera set-up that adheres to the 180 degree rule.
What is the shot/reverse shot?
Suggests that, universally, we experience life and understand the world around us through binaries. His ideas apply to narratives where conflict is structured in the form of binary oppositions.
What is the Claude Lévi-Strauss Theory?