This type of lighting has stark contrasts between light and dark.
What is low-key lighting?
100
When the camera is positioned looking up at a character, making him or her often appear more powerful.
What is a low angle?
100
This style of editing ensures that you can follow along with what you see on-screen and tries to make itself invisible.
What is continuity editing?
100
This term describes the arrangement of voice, music, atmospheric sound, and sound effects.
What is the sound hierarchy?
100
The film we watched that is known for use of jump cuts.
What is Breathless?
200
An actor's accent, facial expressions, and gestures are all part of this aspect of mise-en-scene.
What is performance? [also acceptable: actor or acting]
200
This type of shot occurs at the beginning of a scene. It makes the setting or spatial relations between characters clear.
What is an establishing shot?
200
In moving to a new image, this type of transition briefly superimposes one image over another.
What is a dissolve?
200
This type of sound is not part of the narrative world and characters cannot hear it.
What is non-diegetic sound?
200
Characters speaking to one another or the noise a gun makes when fired by a character are examples of this type of sound.
What is diegetic sound?
300
This aspect of mise-en-scene can often tell you about the relationship between characters and the power dynamics in a scene.
What is blocking? [also acceptable: character blocking or staging]
300
When multiple planes of an image are in focus.
What is deep focus?
300
This style of editing makes viewers aware of the editing; it attempts to jolt or disorient the viewer.
What is disjunctive editing?
300
This lets you know how near or far the source of a sound is.
What is sound perspective?
300
If the camera is tilted to the right or left, it produces this type of angle.
What is a canted angle? [also acceptable: oblique or dutch angle]
400
The three components of this standard high-key lighting style are the key light, the fill light, and the back light.
What is three-point lighting?
400
In this type of shot scale, landscapes dominate and if there is a person, they are very small.
What is an extreme long shot?
400
This invisible line maintains continuity of space and movement.
What is the axis of action [also acceptable:180 degree rule]?
400
These are sounds commonly thought of as background sounds: car noises, chatter, etc.
What are atmospheric sounds?
400
The establishing shot, maintaining the axis of action, following the 30 degree rule, and using match cuts are all central features of this editing style.
What is continuity editing?
500
This style of mise-en-scene appears realistic, everything on-screen seems to be as it should be.
What is naturalistic mise-en-scene?
500
Some of the meanings you could derive from analyzing this aspect of cinematography are who to identify with and what the relationship between characters is.
What is shot scale [also acceptable: camera distance]?
500
What cutting to something that a character is looking at is called.
What is an eyeline match?
500
Like its parallel feature in editing, this style of sound emphasizes clarity and lets us know what/who to pay attention to.
What is sound continuity?
500
This feature of sound is usually used to smooth over a visual transition in a scene.