Camera Work + Movement
This shot may be used to establish the setting in the opening sequence of a film.
What is an establishing shot?
This technique is often used to cleanly cut between two or more scenes happening at the same time but in different locations.
What is cross-cutting?
The natural sound the audience hears in film. (e.g: treading through grass, thrashing of leaves)
What are sound effects?
A piece of the setting that could act as a motif, weapon, etc. (e.g: a stack of paper, watch.)
What is a prop?
This genre often has settings such as rainy forests, isolated cabins, or empty houses.
What is horror?
This camera angle taken from extremely high up that can also be regarded as a "birds-eye-view", and can showcase multiple actions happening at once.
What is an aerial shot?
This technique is being used when the audio comes before the cut, or the cut comes before the audio.
What are J/L cuts?
The type of pitches that when put together sound unharmonious/unpleasant.
What is dissonance?
The location that the current scene takes place.
What is setting?
A policeman is this kind of Genre Convention
What is a Character Type?
A form of camera movement that has the camera following a specific subject.
What is a tracking shot?
An editing technique that uses a character or object to transition it to the next scene, having the subject pass through.
What is passing?
When the music in a production is uniquely its own.
What is score?
What is Costume, hair and makeup?
A forest is this type of genre convention.
What is setting?
This type of camera angle is present when the camera has a tilted horizon. (Either to create uncertainty or just for aesthetic effect).
What is a canted angle?
To maintain the mood from prior scenes.
The sound a certain note in a score makes.
What is a pitch?
What is Mise-en-Scene?
Everything visible on the audience's screen.
What is plot
This camera movement is being utilized when the camera is almost orbiting (or arcs) around a subject. (Typically done horizontally).
What is an arc?
This technique is done with the opening and closing of a camera lens. (Now it's commonly used to create comedic effect.)
What is an iris?
The process to make sound effects.
What is the Foley Process
A component of setting that impacts the brightness in the room, including color, contrast, and brightness.
What is lighting?
A sort of emotion portrayed in a scene (e.g: joy, sadness)
What is theme?