Shot Types
Film Genres
Scripts and Storyboards
Shooting
Film Techniques
200

This shot focus on a very small part of a subject. It feels claustrophobic. 

Extreme Close-up

200

A film genre is:

Categories that define a movie based on its narrative elements such as story, setting or character types.

200

The part of the script that usually comes directly after the slugline is:

Action (Description)

200

A shot that is used to show where a scene takes place is called an:

Establishing Shot
200

Used to show a character’s unstable emotional or mental state, or add an unsettling feeling to a particular scene.

Dutch Angle

400

This shot shows mostly the space the subject is in with the subject being extremely small. 

Extreme Long Shot

400

This genre involves scary situations, murderers and often includes the supernatural

Horror 

400

An arrow coming from a subject in a storyboard is telling us what?

The direction it is moving

400

The 180-degree rule states that when shooting two characters you should always do what?

Stay on one side of them. 

400

This type of lighting is brightly lit with low contrast and no shadows.

High Key Lighting

600

This shot shows the subject from the waist to the top of their head. 

Medium or Mid Shot

600

This genre usually includes cowboys, farmers and shootouts. 

Western

600

The part of a screenplay that opens every scene and tells you information about the setting is:

Slugline
600

The three most important elements to include when you slate a scene are:

Production Title, Scene and Take.

600

A sequence that contains no cuts and uses one shot for a long time is called

Long take

800

This angle places the camera below the subject looking up

Low angle shot

800

The genre is often set in space and includes aliens or advanced technology. 

Science Fiction

800

The part of a screenplay that tells us how a character might deliver a line is called:

Parenthetical

800

Elliptical Editing is used to do what to the story of your film.

Speed it up, cut out the unnecessary parts.

800

This film technique includes all aspects of how actors are used.

Performance

1000

This is a shot where we see through the eyes of one of the characters.

Point-of-view shot. 

1000

These are story elements such as common to specific genres 

Genre conventions

1000

The four parts of short film structure are:


Establish the story's world, Introduce and Develop Conflict, Climax, Payoff

1000

The purpose of using the slate is:

Sync sound or label your shots for ease of editing. 

1000

This film technique includes how the film uses costume, make-up, sets and props. 

Design