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A shot where the camera moves up and down from a fixed location.
What is a tilting shot?
A shot that tightly frames a person or an object.
What is a close up/tight shot?
The magnification of an image, creating an illusion that the camera is getting closer to the subject.
What is zoom?
Objects put on set which appear on screen.
What are props?
A shot where the camera moves horizontally (left to right) on one fixed object or location.
What is a panning shot?
The written text of a play or movie production.
What is script?
The space between the top of an objects head and the top of the frame.
What is head room?
A sequence of drawings representing shots planned for a film or TV production.
What is a storyboard?
The actual filming and creation of raw elements as required by the script.
What is Video Production?
The space between the face and the edge of a frame.
What is nose room?
Used to shoot a conversation, camera positioned behind the shoulder of the character the subject is speaking to.
What is over-the-shoulder?
A composition guideline that places your subject in the left or right third of your image, leaving the other two thirds exposed.
What is the rule-of-thirds?
To film or record a video, this term is also used in photography.
What is shoot?
The first shot in a scene that provides an overview of the setting.
What is an establishing shot?
The division of an act or a shot, cut into smaller parts.
What is a scene?
Frames the subject from the top of the head to just below the chest.
What is a medium close up?
A piece of film uninterrupted by cuts.
What is a shot?
A camera setting that adjusts for lighting in order to make objects appear brighter on screen.
What is white balance?
All phases of production after the recording of the video.
What is post Production?
A shot with two characters, the emphasis lies with the character listening to what the speaking is saying.
What is a reverse shot?
The planning process before a video begins.
What is pre-production?
The distance between the nearest and the furthest objects in an image.
What is depth-of-field?