This type of shot makes the subject appear weaker, inferior, vulnerable, and/or smaller.
What is a high-angle shot?
100
An uncomfortable camera technique in which the length of the lens changes during a shot, altering the depth of field and seemingly moving the subject closer to or further from camera.
What is a zoom shot?
100
The film term used to describe the depth of field on the screen.
What is the z-axis?
100
Descriptive talk accompanying a scene, coming from a character or sometimes a 'storyteller' separate from the plot and characters in the film.
What is narration?
100
The 20 minutes or so right before the sun rises or right after it sets, when there is enough light without a direct light source.
What is the "magic hour"?
200
This type of shot makes the subject appear strong, superior, more in control.
What is a low-angle shot?
200
A comfortable technique in which the camera moves along tracks toward the subject, away from the subject, or parallel to the action on the screen.
What is a dolly shot?
200
The term used to describe how humans mentally divide the screen.
What is the "principle of thirds" or "rule of thirds"?
200
Sounds and/or music that are a part of the scene and that the characters can hear. Also called diegetic sound.
What is REALISTIC sound or music?
200
Also called a director of photography, this is the person in charge of the camera and the lighting design in a film.
What/Who is a cinematographer?
300
Also called a subjective shot, this type of shot puts the audience in the position of a specific character.
What is a POV (point of view) shot?
300
This is what must be adjusted to control the aperture and thus the amount of light entering the camera lens.
What is the F-stop?
300
An audience's attention is automatically drawn to these points on the screen.
What are the "hot spots"?
300
Also called non-diegetic, this is sound and/or music that is not part of the natural scene -- the characters in the scene cannot "hear" it.
What is FUNCTIONAL sound or music?
300
The term for when the camera has allowed too much light into the lens, creating a soft, warm, glowing effect on the screen.
What is overexposure?
400
This is an effective shot for showing the height of a character or object -- the camera stays in one place and "nods" up and down.
What is a tilt shot?
400
A camera shot where the focal point changes during the shot.
What is a 'rack focus' shot?
400
This must be done in order to shoot a slow-motion scene.
What is increase the camera's speed (more fps) during the filming of the scene?
400
An editing technique where one shot fades out at the same time that the next shot fades in.
What is a dissolve?
400
When an additional frame is created within the frame of the screen; often used to show separation or connection between characters.
What is interior framing?
500
This is an effective shot for showing a wide landscape -- the camera stays in one place and twists right and/or left.
What is a panoramic (pan) shot?
500
The camera speed at which live action films are shot. (Also considered the "speed of real life")
What is 24 frames per second (fps)?
500
The term used to describe how the objects and/or characters are arranged on the screen, the perspective of the shot, and the depth of the field on the screen.
What is "composition"?
500
Cutting back and forth between different scenes to emphasize the similarities and differences between the two.
What is juxtaposition?
500
A recurring image or visual pattern seen several times in the course of a film; used to tie the film’s plot and themes together, it can be an object, a place, a minor character, a color, etc.