Camera Angles and Movement
This shot type shows a subject from the waist up.
What is a medium shot?
This basic transition simply switches from one scene to another.
What is a cut?
This is the term for the soundtrack in media.
What is score?
This topic refers to everything seen on the screen.
What is mise-en-scene?
These are things which directors use to base their movie off of a certain genre.
What are genre conventions?
This shot uses a flying device to record from a high angle.
What is a drone shot?
This common transition cuts from a character looking at something to what they were looking at.
What is an eyeline match?
This describes music that is meant to sound nice.
What is harmony?
This form of lighting consists of high contrast.
What is low-key lighting?
These types of movies plots are centered around conflict between civilized order and the lawless frontier.
What is a western?
This form of camera movement moves the camera from side to side.
What is a pan?
This transition puts the audio of the next scene before the images of the next scene.
What is a j-cut?
This type of sound comes from onscreen.
What is diegetic sound?
This is the collection of things that make up a location in a movie.
What is a set
This movie genre is well know for it's emotional impact.
What is a horror?
This shot tilts the camera to show the power of a character over another.
What is a low angle shot?
This transition uses noticeable differences in other elements of the media piece, such as from loud score to quiet score, to transition the scene.
What is a smash cut?
This is the art of creating sound effects for a scene.
What is Foley?
This form of makeup in movies is used to replicate everyday life.
What is naturalistic makeup?
These type of musicals are set in a town or city and have a plot based around someone attempting to overcome a challenge.
What is a straight musical?
This camera movement involves the camera physically moving out while the lens zooms in on a subject.
What is a dolly zoom?
This form of editing consists of strings of unrelated images together to create meaning.
What is an intellectual montage.
This is a collection of background sounds that create realism for a shot.
What is a soundscape?
This type of acting uses genre conventions to base the actions of a character off of.
What is stylized acting?
This is a character in crime thriller movies that seek to bring down the criminal.
What is a force of justice?