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A shot that shows a character from the waist up.
What is a mid shot?
The combination of everything placed in front of the camera.
What is mise-en-scène?
This term refers to the way scenes are arranged and connected in a film.
What is editing?
What is high-key lighting?
The type of sound comes from within the world of the film, like dialogue or footsteps.
What is diegetic sound?
A shot that frames the subject's entire body and surroundings.
What is a wide shot?
The three key tools an actor uses to convey meaning and emotion.
What are facial expression, body language, and voice?
What is a hard cut?
This technique is used to create an atmosphere/mood of darkness, suspense, and/or drama.
What is low-key lighting?
Sound that only the audience can hear.
What is non-diegetic sound?
A technique that makes a character seem more or less important/powerful.
What are camera angles?
A common technique for communicating character growth or progression over the course of a film.
What are costume changes?
A shot that dissolves into/out of black.
What is a fade?
The use of 'incidental' and 'in-scene' sources to light a scene.
What is practical lighting?
These three things are all common examples of non-diegetic sound.
What are score, soundtrack, and narration?
A shot where the camera moves with the action.
What is a tracking shot?
Mise-en-scène includes costume, props, hair, make-up, and this.
What is set design?
Imagery that is added to a film in post-production.
What are visual effects (VFX)?
A lighting technique that distorts facial features, commonly used in thrillers and horror movies.
What is underlighting?
The main purpose of diegetic sound.
What are realism and audience immersion?
A shot in which the camera tilts or slants to create unease or disorientation.
What is a Dutch angle/tilt?
Mise-en-scène provides the audience with these three things/pieces of information.
What are contextual information, clues, and symbols/metaphors?
A technique which encourages viewers to derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.
What is the Kuleshov effect?
A lighting technique that has its roots in Renaissance painting.
What is chiaroscuro?
Realistic, 'in-scene' sounds added in post-production.
What is foley sound?