Cinematography
The shot used to give viewers geographic and background context at the opening of a scene, often without characters included.
What is an establishing shot?
a film editing technique that involves cutting between scenes to make it seem like actions are happening simultaneously
What is cross-cutting?
The name of the unit
What is Digital Media Skills?
The 2 key areas of focus for this unit
What are Genre and Narrative?
an animation technique in which live-action footage is traced frame by frame by animators. This can be done either automatically or manually
What is Rotoscoping?
A tight, partial framing of the subject, either actor or object
What is a medium shot?
the editing technique of assembling separate pieces of thematically related film and putting them together into a sequence
What is montage editing?
The time you have been allocated to complete Unit 3 (in hours).
What is 20 hours?
A text that shares the distinct conventions of more than one genre
What is a hybrid genre?
a crew member who sets up dolly tracks, moving props, camera cranes, and other pieces of equipment.
What is a Grip?
a camera feature that overlays some stripes onto the image that indicate exposure levels
What are zebra stripes
Organisation of editing according to different tempos determined by how quickly cuts are made
What is rhythmic editing?
An important piece of evidence used throughout each stage of the production process
What is a production log?
a film technique that refers to the ways a film references or adapts other texts, such as books, TV, music, or art
What is intertextuality?
refers to the contrast between light and darkness in an individual scene. It has roots in German Expressionism and is also known as high-contrast lighting.
What is Chiaroscuro lighting?
A camera setting that controls how sensitive the camera's sensor is to light
What is ISO?
Establishes verisimilitude, constructs a coherant time
What is continuity editing?
Learners will be able to fully understand the set brief and be able to source and create the assets required to produce a media product. They will be able to source or produce a range of appropriate assets and prepare an in-depth index to demonstrate this. They will be able to demonstrate accomplished skills in editing, manipulating or preparing assets and be able to comprehensively provide evidence of these processes in an e-portfolio. Learners will be able to produce a media product that fully meets the requirements of the brief.
What is a distinction standard?
Should contain numerous consecutive scenes of characters portrayed to effect a serious narrative throughout the title, usually involving conflicts and emotions. This can be exaggerated upon to produce melodrama. Subjective.
What is a Drama?
defines the spatial relations between all of the scene’s elements as being either left or right to the performers in order to maintain scene geography.
What is the 'Line of action'?
Camera movement which combines both horizontal and vertical camera movement in the same motion.
What is compound movement?
a film editing style that intentionally disrupts the flow of time and space
What is disjunctive editing?
The total amount of time you will have to complete this formally assessed and moderated unit during your lesson time (excluding shooting time)
What is four weeks only?
Most often refers to a director with a distinct or signature style
the process through which two or more images combine to make the appearance of a single picture. The process can be done on-set and in-camera or during Post-Production.
What is compositing?