Film
techniques
techniques
An object fills the frame / screen, provides detail of facial and highlight emotions. What is the camera shot
Close up
The use of words such as 'we' or 'our' to allow the reader to feel included in the discussion.
Inclusive language
A comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.
Simile
A person, place of thing. What is the part of speech?
Noun
The most prominent or noticeable image on a page. The first thing your eyes are drawn to?
Salient image
Camera shoots the scene from below subject seems large & powerful. What is the angle?
Low angle shot
A question that makes the reader think but doesn't require an answer.
Rhetorical question
A comparison of two unlike things that goes further to state one thing IS another
Metaphor
A word that describes another word.
Adjective
An imaginary line that our eyes follow from one part of a text to another on a page.
Vector or reading path
Camera shoots the scene from above subject seems small, powerless & insignificant. What is the camera angle?
High angle shot
A short, personal story which is often used to illustrate a point.
Anecdote
Inanimate (non-living) objects or ideas are given human qualities.
Personification
An action or doing word.
Verb
A type of gaze where the figure/character is looking directly out of the page at the audience?
Demand gaze
Camera moves left or right and it creates interest and drama. What is the camera movement?
panning
An overused phrase, that is easily recognised by the reader. eg. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Cliche
Repetition of a consonant sound in words with close connection eg She sells sea shells by the seashore.
Alliteration
A word that describes a verb eg gently, loudly.
Adverb
The foreground and the background creates what in an image?
Depth of field
A French term that refers to all the elements that go into a frame when creating a camera shot?
Mise-en-scene
Writers use exaggeration to heighten the implications of an issue.
Hyperbole
Mimicking the sound of a word eg tic toc, bang, whoosh.
Onomatopoeia
A word that stands in for a noun in a sentence eg he, she , I , you?
Pronoun
This can create symbolism, mood or atmosphere to an image.
colour