Shots
When the audience is seeing through the eyes of a character.
What is a Point-of-View shot?
Can be dialogue, narration, or even visual information the audience receives that helps them better understand what is going on in the story.
What is the exposition?
Choosing, trimming and placing the various shots into sequences to make the film.
What is editing?
Background sound effects: crowds cheering, bells ringing, door knocking, etc.
What is ambient (or diagetic) sound?
A shot that shows a character’s reaction to events in the previous shot.
What is a reaction shot?
The place where the film is shot.
What is the location?
Serves to transition directly from one shot to the next, or one scene to the next.
What is a cut?
A film editing technique in which a series of short shots are sequenced to condense space, time, and information.
What is a montage?
Any shot that physically moves the camera through the scene for an extended amount of time.
What is a tracking shot?
Non-verbal signals of how we are feeling.
What is body language?
The alternating of shots from two different sequences, often in different places, suggesting they are taking place at the same time.
What is cross-cutting?
The movement of the camera when it swivels from left to right or right to left.
What is pan?
A long take of an entire scene, into which other shots e.g. reaction shots are cut.
What is a master shot?
Is the deliberate setting of the scene in a film. It includes the set, props, background, light and costumes etc. that make up the mood, ambience, or time of the scene.
What is mise en scene?
When a single shot is broken with a cut that makes the subject appear to move instantly forward in time.
What is a jump cut?
The final detail or image in a particular scene. It may sum up what has happened, add a touch of irony, or point towards the following scene.
What is an outpoint?
One attempt at a shot. A single continuous recorded performance.
What is a take?
A person’s private thoughts and feeling which are shown in other ways than through what is said in the script: voice, body language, set or shot.
What is sub-text?
The technique where one shot is replaced by another by the movement of an edge, or line.
What is a wipe?
Any shot that’s sole purpose is to focus the viewer’s attention to a specific detail within a scene.
What is an insert?