Different angles
Technical Codes
Vocab building
Focus
Shot types
100

Used to make the character look small and indicates that the character is weak or inferior.

What is high?

100

Sound effects that are added in post-production.

What is foley?

100

Individuals and groups of people for whom moving-image products are made, and who make meanings when they consume these products.

What is audience?

100

A shot where the camera follows and focuses on the subject being recorded.

What is tracking focus?

100

Shows the character from the waist up.

What is MS (Mid shot)?

200

Places the audience at eye-level with the subject.

What is eye-level?

200

Types include special effects, such as blue screening or colour keying

What is CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery)?

200

The process where inanimate objects are filmed frame by frame with slight movements between frames to create the illusion of line motion

What is animation?

200

Only some of shot is in focus

What is selective or shallow focus?

200

The subject takes up the full frame.

What is WS (Wide shot)?

300

Used to make the character look big and indicates that the character is strong and over-powering

What is a low?

300

A rule in continuity editing that states the position of the camera should never change the right-to-left relationships of characters in a scene

What is 180 degree rule?

300

Engagement with and increasing understanding of how images, sounds and texts can be used to provoke responses.

What is aesthetic?

300

Everything in focus

What is deep focus?

300

Often used as an establishing shot.

What is ELS (Extreme long shot)?

400

When the camera is canted or tilted to side so that the horizon is on an angle?

What is dutch?

400

A photographic compositional technique involving positioning the subject to two horizontal and two vertical lines in the frame

What is the rule of thirds?

400

Meanings that are understood by a particular audience because of their culture

What are cultural codes?

400

Shifting focus from one subject to another.

What is rack focus?

400

Looking from behind a character to another.

What is over-the-shoulder shot (OSS)?

500

When camera is very high or over head.

What is birds eye view or aerial?

500

The way a shot is visually staged or what is put in the frame, such as costumes, lighting, props, etc.

What is mise en scène?

500

Writing with motion or communicating ideas, themes, actions, and subtext in visual and audio forms

What is cinematography?

500

To give shots a dreamy or slightly unreal quality.

What is soft focus?

500

To focus on part of the characters face.

What is CU (Close-up shot)?

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