Camera Vocab
Camera moves along its vertical axis (up to down
or down to up).
What is Tilt?
A cut that appears to be an interruption of a single shot.
What is Jump Cuts?
Any sound that could be logically heard by a character within the movie environment.
What is Diegetic Sound?
No real movement of camera, the focal length of the lens changes, making an object appear closer or further away.
What is Zoom?
A film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue.
What is a Silent Film?
When the camera pivots along a horizontal axis.
What is a Panning Shot?
When an on-screen image slowly fades away and the screen itself is entirely black
What is a Fade?
Sound that cannot be heard logically by
characters in the film (only the audience can
hear the sound).
What is Non-Diegetic Sound?
Name 3 types of Scripts
What is TV, Film, & Animation?
Brief involuntary emotions expressions of emotion.
What is Microexpressions?
This is the most standard and regularly used shot. It gives the audience a general look at what is going on while still letting them know what the focus or subject of the shot is.
What is Medium Shot?
Similar to fade in that the image slowly begins to fade out, but instead of fading all the way to black, it is replaced by another image that is slowly fading in.
What is a Dissolve?
When only one character in the movie can hear the sound; usually when the audience can hear inside the mind of one character.
What is Internal Diegetic Sound?
The phrase refers to the arrangement of all the visual elements of all the visual elements of a theatrical production within a given playing area – the stage.
What is Mise en scene?
Used to convey dialogue
Provide supplemental narrative material in case what was photographed couldn’t convey the full situation itself
What are Dialogue Titles?
What are Expository Titles?
A single uninterrupted piece of film.
What is a Camera Shot?
Create and build suspense.
When a shot lasts longer than twenty to thirty seconds in contemporary films, it becomes noticeable to the audience and is normally reserved for creating a particular mood or tone. (2 Answers )
What is Shorter Takes & Longer Takes?
Principal source of light on a movie set. Other lights balance, soften and shade the key light.
What is Key Light?
True movement of the camera itself.
■ Camera can be on a track, a truck, or even hand held.
■ Allows viewer to become a part of the action.
■ Different from pan and tilt which are stationary and
more like watching a play.
■ Sometimes difficult to distinguish from a zoom.
What is Tracking or Dolly Shots?
Person spoke into a horn. Horn collected sound energy sent to a needle.
Needle wiggled according to the sound.
Needle wiggled and carved on a soft wax piece that rotated as sound was being recorded.
To playback, place the needle on the grooves and rotate the wax cylinder.
What is Phonogram?
The camera is below the subject facing up.
The camera is above the subject facing down.
Camera leans on one side.
What is Low Angle?
What is High Angle?
What is Dutch Angle?
Designed to give the viewer important information about what happened in the past.
Take audiences ahead of the story’s present time.
What is Flashback and Flash-forward?
Behind the subject
One bright source.
A less bright source balancing key light.
What is Backlighting?
What is Key Light?
What is Fill light?
Explain the 3 Act Story-Structure
ACT 1
ACT 2
ACT 3
Setup
Complication
Confrontation
Increasing complications
Resolution
Plot Turn 1 Plot Turn 2
What year did Harvey Wilcox bought a piece of land in Southern California?
1887