Camera Angles & Movement
This shot angle makes a subject appear dominant or powerful
What is a low angle shot?
A type of editing technique that cuts between two shots that are happening at the same time.
What is cross cutting?
The sound of people talking while onscreen. Usually they are talking to each other.
What is a dialogue?
This is a term that refers to everyone seeable in the frame or the visual information in a scene or shot, such as, setting, lighting, colour, shape, costume, make-up, expression, movement, symmetry, tends to refer to the content of a shot.
What is mise-en-scene?
This genre often showcases a dystopian future and advanced technology.
What is sci-fi (science fiction)?
The type of camera movement follows a subject
What is a tracking shot?
A type of editing technique that is an intentional camera rotation on the x-axis that is so fast that it creates an often disorienting blur effect.
What is a whip pan?
Original music that is created for the film and plays at different points throughout the movie.
What is a score?
This form of lighting contrasts light and dark to create tension?
What is low key lighting?
Some film critics may dismiss this essential part of film making because they view it as formulaic but it is actually the best way to describe and analyze films.
What is genre?
This type of camera movement shows a shot taken from a high viewpoint, as if it was taken from a drone showing a bird eye’s view.
What is an aerial shot?
A type of editing technique that informs the viewer of what the character sees.
What is an eyeline match?
A term which refers to simultaneous or consecutive musical notes which (according to convention) sound pleasant. In film and TV, harmonious music may suggest that all is well in the world.
What is harmony?
This compnent of mise-en-scene helps reinforce narrative and thematic patterns like changing actors to look like historical personages has been one common usuage of this component.
What is costume and makeup?
This a phenomenon that occur where a batch of related genre films that enjoys intense popularity and influence over a fairly brief period of time. Triggered by successful films.
What is a genre cycle?
This is a shot taken with a tilted horizon, often used to signify imbalance or uncertainty, but sometimes for aesthetic effect.
What is a canted angle?
A type of editing technique that is a film transition from one shot to another in which transition of the audio and video happen at different times.
What is a spilt edit?
A collection of background sounds which reinforce the realism of a scene - these may be augmented in post-production with, for example, library sound effects, such as crowd murmur. This might also be described as ‘atmosphere’.
What is soundscape?
Short for ‘property’, much consideration goes into the strategic inclusion and positioning of functional objects to support the narrative, they are a form exposition, plot development, character traits. They are also used to indicate genre, as well as the time period in which the film is set.
What is a prop?
Films categorized based on recurring images of people
What is genre iconography?
This type of camera movement orbits around a subject, typically a horizontal, can be vertical, can add dynamic movement left or right, keep our focus subjected to the subject during moments of intimacy, heroism, panic. When speed is amplified it can create a dizzy effect.
What is an arc?
A type of editing technique that was utilized a ton back then to symbolize an end to a movie or a story, very outdated but may be used in old style films.
What is an iris?
Sound effects produced to enhance the realism of actions in the scene, produced to enhance realism of the scene, for example, footsteps, the clink of ice in a glass, the sound of a kiss. They always produced in post-production and are always diegetic.
What is a foley?
This type of custome designing makes very strategically placed shapes, lines, and color choices and isn't realistic on purpose.
What is an expressionist custome design?
This is the earliest film genre and was established in 1910s. Often contained conflict between civilised order and law less frontier.
What is the western genre?