Shots
Angle
Movement/Editing
Colour/Lighting
Miscellaneous
100
A shot taken from the point of view or line of sight of the character; gives the character's perspective.
What is a point of view shot?
100
Camera Records from below and looks up at the subject; makes the subject appear stronger, intimidating, more powerful or superior.
What is a low angle shot?
100
The camera swivels from left to right.
What is a pan?
100
A colour that evokes passion.
What is red?
100
Splicing together a series of scenes.
What is a film sequence?
200
Camera is located at normal eye level.
What is an eye level shot?
200
Camera records from above and looks down on the subject; may make the subject look small, inferior, week or lonely.
What is a high angle shot?
200
This is a vertical pan.
What is a tilt?
200
You want a character to appear bubble and happy. What colour could you dress that character in?
What is orange or yellow?
200
Lighting or sound that is considered to be a natural inclusion to a scene. Character's talking, the sun shinning etc...
What is diegetic lighting or sound?
300
Form of long shot to describe where characters are located in the scene; establishes setting.
What is a wide or establishing shot?
300
Bonus! An angle taken from an extreme height, like a airplane, helicopter or tall building. HINT: Think of what a fowl would see from the air.
What is a bird's eye view shot?
300
This type of shot is used most often in documentaries.
What is hand held angle?
300
Lighting that uses white, blue and green colours to influence the mood/atmosphere of the scene.
What is cool lighting?
300
Used in editing to indicate a passing of time by superimposing one image onto the next.
What is fade editing?
400
A shot that uses the back of a character's head to frame something or someone in front of him/her.
What is an over the shoulder shot?
400
BONUS. Now, think about an extremely low angle shot. HINT: The early bird gets...
What is a worm's eye view shot?
400
In its broadest meaning, the process of cutting up film and editing it into the screened sequence. However, it may also be used to mean intellectual montage - the juxtaposition of short shots to represent action or ideas - or (especially in Hollywood), simply cutting between shots to condense a series of events. Montage editing, unlike invisible editing, uses obvious techniques that may include: use of close- ups, relatively frequent cuts, dissolves, superimposition, fades and jump cuts. Such editing should suggest a particular meaning.
What is a montage?
400
Refers to the intensity of a particular light source and lighting can be described in terms that go from hard to soft lighting within a scene.
What is lighting quality?
400
An intercut sequence of shots in which the camera shifts back and forth between one scene and another. Two distinct but related events seem to be happening at approximately the same time. A chase is a good example. Each scene serves as a cutaway for the other. Adds tension and excitement to dramatic action.
What is Parallel development/parallel editing/cross-cutting?
500
This shot singles out a portion of the face or detail; may magnify the image to the point of distortion.
What is an extreme close-up shot?
500
This angle is achieved by tilting the camera to the side so the horizon is not flat; used to portray psychological tension, uneasiness or weirdness.
What is an oblique angle shot?
500
The camera rolls smoothly toward, away from, past or around the subject.
What is a dolly shot?
500
This lighting uses a primary light, a key light and a fill light.
What is three-point lighting?
500
A ‘realistic’ technique whereby meaning is conveyed through the relationship of things visible within a single shot (rather than, as with montage, the relationship between shots). An attempt is made to preserve space and time as much as possible; editing or fragmenting of scenes is minimised. Composition of each individual frame is therefore extremely important. The way people stand and move in relation to each other is important. Long shots and long takes are characteristic. It relies particularly on lighting, props, costumes, movement and body language.
What is Mise En Scene?
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