Mise-en-Scéne
The arrangement and movement of actors in relation to each other.
What is blocking?
The camera is stationary but the lens moves, making the objects appear to grow larger or smaller.
What is a zoom?
Only the foreground is in focus.
What is shallow focus?
Image moves to black and a second image emerges from the black to replace the first image.
What is a fade in/fade out?
A piece of narration in a movie.
What is a voiceover?
Colors are drained for effect within a shot.
What is desaturation?
Camera is somewhat shaky on purpose as it follows the action, usually because it being held by the camera operator.
What is handheld tracking?
When a director intentionally puts their object slightly out of focus to make the image look softer or unclear.
What is a soft focus?
One image is pulled across the screen to reveal a second image.
What is a wipe?
Sound that can be heard by the characters within the film.
What is diegetic sound?
The five elements of mise-en-scéne include color, lighting, arrangement, camera placement, and...?
What is framing?
The camera follows a subject horizontally (back and forth) on a fixed base, such as a tripod.
What is a pan?
When a director shifts the focus from one subject to to another in the same shot in order to direct the audience's attention.
What is rack focus?
An assembly of shots intended to condense or expand time or to develop a theme.
What is a montage?
Sound that matches the action.
What is synchronous sound?
Scene is flooded with light; creates a bright and open-looking scene.
What is high-key lighting?
The camera is lifted vertically through space to follow its subject from a bird's eye view to a close-up or vice versa.
What is a crane/boom?
When the foreground and background are equally in focus.
What is a deep focus?
Two images overlap and are held for an extended period of time.
What is a superimposition?
Sound that doesn't match the action.
What is asynchronous sound?
A shot that is tilted sideways on the horizontal line; use to add tension to a static frame.
What is a canted angle or Dutch tilt?
The camera is spun on its axis to create a dizzying effect. Often used as a type of cut/transition between scenes.
What is a swish pan?
What type of focus is seen in this shot?
What is shallow focus?
One-shot cuts between two characters interacting with one another.
What is a shot/reverse shot?
Sound that cannot be heard by the characters. It is given directly to the audience by the director.
What is nondiegetic sound?