Used to make the character look small and indicates that the character is weak or inferior.
What is high?
Sound effects that are added in post-production.
What is foley?
Individuals and groups of people for whom moving-image products are made, and who make meanings when they consume these products.
What is audience?
A shot where the camera follows and focuses on the subject being recorded.
What is tracking focus?
Shows the character from the waist up.
What is MS (Mid shot)?
Places the audience at eye-level with the subject.
What is eye-level?
Types include special effects, such as blue screening or colour keying
What is CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery)?
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?
Only some of shot is in focus
What is selective or shallow focus?
The subject takes up the full frame.
What is WS (Wide shot)?
Used to make the character look big and indicates that the character is strong and over-powering
What is a low?
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?
Engagement with and increasing understanding of how images, sounds and texts can be used to provoke responses.
What is aesthetic?
Everything in focus
What is deep focus?
Often used as an establishing shot.
What is ELS (Extreme long shot)?
When the camera is canted or tilted to side so that the horizon is on an angle?
What is dutch?
A photographic compositional technique involving positioning the subject to two horizontal and two vertical lines in the frame
What is the rule of thirds?
Meanings that are understood by a particular audience because of their culture
What are cultural codes?
Shifting focus from one subject to another.
What is rack focus?
Looking from behind a character to another.
What is over-the-shoulder shot (OSS)?
When camera is very high or over head.
What is birds eye view or aerial?
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?
Writing with motion or communicating ideas, themes, actions, and subtext in visual and audio forms
What is cinematography?
To give shots a dreamy or slightly unreal quality.
What is soft focus?
To focus on part of the characters face.
What is CU (Close-up shot)?