Camera Fundamentals
This part of the exposure triangle controls how sensitive the camera is to light.
What is ISO?
This composition guideline places important subjects near imaginary grid intersections.
What is rule of thirds?
You move from filming outside in bright sunlight into a dim room. Name one camera setting you could change to keep the image properly exposed.
Where a series of shots are sequenced together to condense time, space, and information.
What is a Montage?
Every story needs a character who wants something. This is called their _____.
What is their goal (or objective)?
This camera setting affects both exposure and how blurry or frozen motion appears.
What is shutter speed?
Lines usually starting in the foreground that brings your eye/attention to the subject
What are leading lines?
Most movies are filmed at approximately this frame rate.
What is 24 fps?
When you create meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots
What is the Kuleshov effect?
Raising the consequences if the main character fails increases these.
What are the stakes?
Which type of lens would you choose if you wanted to fit an entire landscape into one shot?
What is a wide-angle lens?
A camera angle looking down at a subject often makes them appear this way.
What is weak, vulnerable, or small?
The sweet spot between a convenient camcorder and a high end cinema camera is this.
What is a mirrorless camera (or DSLR)?
When short shots are edited quickly to heighten emotional tension, or inject an intense, chaotic energy into a scene.
What is rapid editing (or fast cutting)?
The moment of greatest tension near the end of a story is called this.
What is the climax?
A lens with a small f-number (like f/1.8) creates this visual effect behind your subject.
What is a shallow depth of field (blurred background/bokeh)?
This type of shot is best for showing emotion on a person's face.
What is a close-up?
Recording at 120 fps is useful because it allows you to do this in editing.
What is slow motion?
Matching the movement between two shots to create a seamless transition is called this editing technique.
What is a match cut?
A character who changes in a meaningful way over the course of a story experiences this.
What is a character arc?
Sports photographers often use this type of lens to photograph athletes from far away.
What is a telephoto lens?
This type of camera angle makes the audience feel like they are seeing the world through the character's own eyes.
What is a point-of-view (POV) shot?
To get natural-looking motion blur when filming at 24 fps, shutter speed should be about this value.
What is 1/48 (or about 1/50) second?
Reality TV editors sometimes splice dialogue together from different moments. This practice is called this.
What is Frankenbiting?
This one- or two-sentence summary introduces the protagonist, conflict, and stakes of a story.
What is a logline?