Camera Angles
Lighting
Editing
Sound
Special Effects
100
A shot in which the camera is made to pivot horizontally left or right
What is a Pan shot?
100
A spotlight that accentuates a single person and maybe a few props in a scene
What is cameo lighting?
100
Raw, unedited material as originally filmed by a movie camera or recorded by a video camera, which typically must be edited to create a motion picture, video clip, television show or similar completed work
What is footage?
100
Sound which is represented as coming from a source outside the story space, i.e. its source is neither visible on the screen, nor has been implied to be present in the action
What is non-diegetic sound?
100
The combining of visual elements from separate sources into single images, often to create the illusion that all those elements are parts of the same scene
What is compositing?
200
A shot in which the camera moves toward or away from its subject while filming
What is a Dolly shot?
200
A technique in film and other moving picture media where one scene abruptly cuts to another for aesthetic, narrative, or emotional purpose
What is a smash cut?
200
A short film scene that shows what a character (the subject) is looking at (represented through the camera)
What is a POV shot?
200
Sound that the characters can hear as well as the audience, and usually implies a reaction from the character
What is diegetic sound?
200
A motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception, hence adding a third dimension
What is 3D film?
300
A cut in film editing in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly if at all
What is a Jump Cut?
300
An auxiliary light placed to the side of the subject that softens shadows and illuminates areas not lit by the key light
What is fill lighting?
300
A variant of a split edit film editing technique in which the audio from preceding scene overlaps the picture from the following scene, so that the audio cuts after the picture, and continues playing over the beginning of the next scene
What is an L cut?
300
Original music written specifically to accompany a film
What is a film score?
300
An animation technique that physically manipulates an object so that it appears to move on its own
What is stop motion?
400
A technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information, made famous in the "Rocky" films.
What is a Montage?
400
This form of lighting is more popular is modern meme culture than films today; however, it was a staple of many sci-fi film saga's when it first came out as an enhanced lighting form
What is Lens Flare?
400
A film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character
What is shot reverse shot?
400
An artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media
What are sound effects?
400
The process of digitally assembling multiple images to make a final image, typically for print, motion pictures or screen display
What is digital compositing?
500
Also called a canted angle or even simply the tilted angle, an angle in which the camera itself is tilted to the left or the right, named after the European country it originates from.
What is a Dutch Angle?
500
A form of lighting characterized by an illuminated triangle under the eye of the subject on the less illuminated side of the face, it is named after a famous Dutch artist who favored this form of lighting in his works
What is Rembrandt lighting?
500
A set of cooperating standards to label individual frames of video or film with a timecode
What is SMPTE timecode?
500
A word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the sound that it describes
What is onomatopoeia?
500
A technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision
What is stereoscopy?