Narrative
The main storyline in a film.
What is a 'plot'?
Focuses on the whole of an object or person's face.
What is 'close-up'?
Figures in the frame are only seen from the waist up.
What is 'mid-shot'?
An enlarged or minimized image/object via the focal adjustment of a lens.
What is 'zoom'?
When one shot replaces another on screen.
What is 'cut'?
The relationship plot that carries the theme.
What is a 'sub-plot''?
Shows the full figure of the subject.
What is 'long shot'?
A shot taken when the camera is above and looking down on a scene or object, but directly overhead.
What is high angle'?
A tilted camera on an angle.
What is 'tilt'?
Where edits are noticeably jarring to watch.
What is 'jump-cut'?
Key events that move the story forward in a different direction.
What are 'turning points'?
Contains a lot of landscape and helps establish the location and atmosphere.
What is 'wide shot' or 'establishing shot'?
A shot taken when the camera is below or looking up at the object or figure.
What is 'low angle'?
When the camera moves with the subject.
What is 'track'?
Sound/music added to create mood and feeling in a scene.
What is 'non-diegetic sound'?
A series of shots that create meaning through the way they relate to each other.
What is a 'montage'?
Part of the shot is out of focus.
What is 'shallow focus'?
Clothes a character wears chosen for specific reasons.
What is 'character clothing'?
An image depicting the subject from overhead, usually with the camera mounted on a mechanical crane.
What is 'crane'?
Low/high, key, backlighting, filters, and ambient.
What is 'lighting'?
What is put into a scene--camera work, shot content, design, actors, etc.
What is 'mise-en-scene'?
A zoomed out shot that gives the shot depth or field, making the foreground and background in focus; this distance between the foreground and background seems large.
What is 'wide angle'?
The motions a character goes through in a scene/film.
What is 'character actions'?
A camera pivoting from left to right or up and down, either from object to object or following a figure or object.
What is 'pan'?
The purposeful distinct difference of color, lighting, and characteristics of characters and objects.
What is 'contrast'?