NARRATIVE
This is when the overall problem or dilemma in a film is solved.
What is Closure?
The arrangement of characters and objects in a scene.
What is Composition?
The light that illuminates the upper areas of a character or object, usually generated from above.
What is Top Lighting
The area of distance or separation between sharply focus foreground and background objects.
What is Depth of Field?
The borders of a projected image or the individual still photograph on a strip of film.
What is a Frame?
Dialogue spoken by an off-screen voice, usually non-diabetic.
What is Voice Over Narration?
This is when characters/ objects in a scene seem to mirror one another on either end of the screen.
What is Symmetry?
The light source typically shining from behinds or along side the camera and shines forward.
What is Frontal Lighting?
These are the three areas in a composition that objects or characters can be located.
What is Foreground, Midground, and Background?
This is one of the basic camera positions. The camera is set up in close proximity to a subject so that it fills the majority of the frame.
What is a Close Up?
The order and arrangement of story events as they appear in a given film.
What is Plot?
This technique is when a scene is filmed in the place it is supposed to happen in, rather than in a lot or manufactured set.
What is Shooting on Location?
These are the three points of lighting in a scene.
What is Key Lighting, Fill Lighting, and Back Lighting?
A style of cinematography that establishes great depth of field within shots.
What is Deep Focus?
One of the basic camera positions in which a camera is set up at some distance from the subject of the shot, often to highlight the environment in a scene.
What is a Long Shot?
The entire sequence of events that a film’s plot draws on and referenced.
What is Story?
This measures the strength of a color and how much white is present. The more white, the more _____ the color has.
What is Saturation?
This type of lighting makes people look ugly and old.
What is Hard Lighting
This technique requires the camera to focus on only one object or character, ignoring all other aspects of the scene.
What is Selective Focusing?
Very similar to another camera position, this requires the camera to be so close to an object that is fills the entire frame, sometimes so much so it is unrecognizable.
What is an Extreme Close Up?
A type of film dealing with a person, situation, or state of affairs that exists independently of a film, often including real people rather than actors.
What is a Documentary?
This technique is when objects in a shot are both near and far in relation to the camera.
What is Deep Space Composition?
A lighting design that minimizes contrast and fall-off by creating a bright, even illumination throughout a scene.
What is High-Key Lighting?
This technique involved changing the focus of a camera during a single shot.
What is Rack Focusing?
A camera position used by film makers to record the entire action of a scene from beginning to end, often to help establish a scene.
What is a Master Shot?