Shot Composition
Fine art typically uses vertical orientations for portraits and horizontal for landscapes.
What is "aspect ratio"?
A good mix of these 2 types of interview questions will help tell the story and open up the speaker to introduce powerful feelings that the audience can experience.
What are "informational" and "emotional" interview questions?
This method is used to organize and "chop up" one long video clip into multiple, smaller sound bites that are easier to sort and build into timeline/sequence.
This process is done during the editing cycle to "fix" or enhance the visual colors/tones.
What is color correction?
This shot composition balances the subject and environment.
What is a medium shot?
These influence perspective and audience perception. "High" can diminish a subject's power, while "Low" can enhance it.
What are "shot angles"?
A critical "visual clip" that helps to illustrate what is being said in addition to the talking head that's telling her story.
What is "B-roll"?
The speed at which the story unfolds in a film.
What is "pacing"?
This is the term for music that is added to specific scenes or throughout various parts of a movie.
What is a soundtrack?
This type of shot may show most of someone's back, and only a part of the subject, that often tells us something of the power relationship between the characters.
What is "over the shoulder" (OTS)?
The human eye has its “visual center” and if you imagine the viewfinder is divided in this manner, both horizontally and vertically, this is the "rule" to follow.
What is the rule of thirds?
___________ is a work of fiction that’s presented in the style of a documentary. Filmmakers have used this format to criticize, satirize, and generally make fun of various subjects.
What is a "mockumentary"?
These types of transitions can often time be distracting and jarring for the viewer.
What is a "jump cut"?
This shot composition is used to focus on the character's facial characteristics and emotion.
This audio track is often used to tell the story to the viewer, from an offscreen "character".
What is a voiceover track?
This shot framing is used to establish a setting or sense of place. The shot is captured somewhat far away from the subject.
What is a "long shot" or "establishing shot"?
This "tool" is used early in production, to sketch out what's seen onscreen and what will be said or done in key scenes.
What is a "storyboard"?
Prior to editing, the ___________ stage includes planning the project, scripting, storyboarding and organizing resources.
What is the "pre-production" stage?
This effect is often used to accentuate action by slowing everything down.
What is slow motion?
Without this key role in movie-making, there would just be a mountain of footage with nothing to hold the intended story together
What is an "editor"?
This shot captures half of the subject, generally seen from waist to head for a person.
What is a "medium shot"?
Critical to any engaging story, this component proves that “Uncertainty is Currency”.
What is "conflict"?
This tool in Adobe Premiere allows the editor to make cuts in a clip?
What is the razor blade tool?
These sounds are added in post-production/editing often to enhance the visual action and stimulate the auditory senses simultaneously.
What are sound effects?
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What is "Art of Visual Storytelling"?