Shots
A shot taken at considerable distance from the subject. The person’s entire body is in the frame.
What is a Long Shot
Not a stop in filming, instead, this technique is an abrupt transition from one shot to another.
What is a Cut?
This technique starts with a shot in darkness and gradually lightens to full exposure.
What is a Fade In.
Sounds that are generally considered background noise. They are produced by the atmosphere the scene takes place in.
What is Ambient Noise?
In this shot, the camera looks down at the character to make them seem powerless, or weak.
What is a High Angle Shot
You may leap out of your seat with cuts like these, in which two spliced shots don't match in terms of place or time.
What is a Jump Cut?
Using a special lens, this techniques crates a dream-like picture.
What is Soft Focus?
A gradual increase in loudness in a piece of music.
What is Crescendo.
In this shot, camera is on the same level as the character.
What is an eye-level shot.
Car chase scenes often use this form of cutting, which goes back-and-forth between two events or actions taking place at the same time, but not in the same place.
What is Cross-Cutting?
Bright lighting with few shadows.
What is High Key Lighting
Lack of harmony among musical notes.
What is Dissonance.
This shot occurs when the camera looks up at the character to convey importance or power.
What is a Low Angle Shot
It's always nice to have a conversation, and with this type of over-the-shoulder cut, the conversations are easy to follow.
What is a Reverse-Cut?
A shot that starts at full exposure and gradually fades to black.
What is a fade out?
The pitch of the music in a film can be high or low "this"
What is Register.
A shot framing the subject usually from the waist up.
What is a Medium Shot.
The difference between a jump cut and a cross-cut is in time and what other factor?
What is place?
Lighting with strong contrast between the brightest and darkest parts of an image which creates strong shadows.
What is Low Key Lighting.
Background music is not consider part of this type of noise in film.
What is Ambient Noise