Camera Movement
When the camera is locked in a fixed position.
Static
A crucial introductory component to a scene that introduces key details about the location or the world.
Establishing Shot
This shot frames the subject from below their eyeline. This shot can make a subject look powerful.
Low angle shot
A focus that keeps everything in perspective without favoring foreground, mid-ground, or background.
Deep focus
What does Billy bring to Ms. Wilkinson in a vulnerable scene between the characters?
A shot that is filmed by rotating the camera left or right
Pan
This shot positions the subject far from the camera to represent their relationship to their surroundings. This shot emphasizes the scale of the subject. Making them appear small
Wide Shot
This shot frames the subject from above their eyeline.
High Angle Shot
A shot where an individual character is the primary focus and no part of any other character is visible in the frame.
Clean single.
What historical event is Billy Elliot set in?
UK Miner's Strike
A shot that is filmed using vertical camera movement (up and down)
Tilt
This shot can emphasize elements like posture, body, and wardrobe
Full Shot
This shot issolves the barrier between viewer and story, humanize characters with a neutral camera angle and simulate human vision and familiar composition.
Eye Level Shot
This focus helps emphasize one part of the image over another to draw the viewer's eye to a particular area of the frame.
Shallow Focus
What do the boxing gloves in Billy Elliot represent?
Masculinity, conformity, his father's expectations.
This type of camera movement can be mistaken as a zoom.
Push in
This shot can make a subject seem strong, dangerous, or confrontational. The subject is framed from their head to just below their waist.
Cowboy Shot
These shots can capture the complex movements of a subject (such as a fight breaking out) or reveal the details of a crime scene.
Overhead Shot
A hybrid between a hybrid and single and a two shot. This shot feels immersive
Over the shoulder shot.
What is a major theme in Billy Elliot? Provide a theme statement.
Open.
The name of a pan which can heighten energy of a shot.
Whip pan
This shot typically only captures the eyes or another part of the face.
Extreme Close Up
This shot angle is used to depict an unwell mental state or an unsettling mood.
Dutch shot
This focus often requires either special lenses that have this "defect" or a filter.
Soft Focus.
What ballet is Billy performing in the final scene?
Swan Lake.