Camera
A camera angle shot from a medium distance.
What is a medium shot?
A light hits the actor from behind and is usually placed higher than the subject.
What is back lighting?
A selection of recorded songs that accompany a film.
What is a soundtrack?
The high point of a story
What is the climax?
The head of the production office management personnel.
What is a line producer?
Any shot where the camera follows backward, forward, or alongside the subject being recorded.
What is a tracking movement?
Reduces the lighting ratio in a scene, there is less contrast between the darker tones and brighter areas.
What is high key lighting?
The principle of making sure that all details in a film are consistent from shot to shot and from scene to scene.
What is continuity?
The background information the audience needs to know for the world of your story to make sense.
What is the exposition?
The person responsible for the photographing or recording of a film.
What is a cinematographer?
A shot taken from a camera angle positioned below the average eye line and pointed up.
What is a low angle?
A lighting technique in which the background of the set is lit to create the illusion of a solid-colored, indistinct background.
What is limbo lighting?
The methods and conventions of a cinema used to communicate with the audience.
What is spoken language?
The period after the dramatic confrontation of the climax.
What is the falling action?
Runs the property department which makes, stores, and transports the props as well as prepping the props for a shoot.
What is a prop master?
A view of a scene is shot from a considerable distance so that people appear as indistinct shapes.
What is a long shot?
The ratio between the white and the black, or the light and the dark parts of a scene.
What is contrast?
To communicate a large amount of information to an audience over a shorter span of time.
What is a narrative montage?
The final act of the story.
What is the resolution?
Assists the production sound mixer on set by operating boom microphones, selecting and placing radio microphones, and maintaining the audio equipment.
What is a boom operator?
To pan the camera horizontally so that it sweeps around a scene.
What is a panning movement?
A lighting technique that focuses on accentuating shadows by using hard source lighting.
What is low key lighting?
A post-production process where scenes or shots are combined.
What is transition?
Comes right after the opening of the story.
What is the rising action?
Creates or adapts a story into a script for the entertainment industry
What are screenwriters?