Story Development
Camera Angles and Movement
Elements of Film
Camera Basics
Stages of Filmmaking
100

Introduction (inciting incident), rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. 

What are the 5 basic sections of Story Structure?

100

Wide shot, close up, extreme closeup. 

What are 3 examples of Framing Techniques?

100

The Element of Film relating to music, dialog, and all things heard within a film.

What is Sound Design?

100

The opening in a lens through which light passes to enter the camera.

What is Aperture?

100

The stage in filmmaking where you would begin to plan our your idea, write your Script, and create your Storyboard.

What is Pre-Production?

200

Examples of these are Antagonist, Protagonist, Confidant, Foil.

Name 3 characters types:

200

When you move a camera up and down while filming.

What is a Tilt?

200

How an actor chooses to portray a character in a film.

What is Performance?

200

A camera setting that determines how sensitive a camera's sensor is to light.

What is ISO?

200

The stage in filmmaking where you would actually perform your script and film it. 

What is Production?

300

Examples of these are Round, Flat, and Dynamic.

What are Character Qualities?

300

When you move a camera from left to right while filming.

What is a Pan?

300

The way in which a shot in a film is framed, lit, shadowed, and colored.

What is Cinematography? 

300

A measurement of how many images are displayed on a screen in one second

What is FPS (Frames per second)?

300

The stage of filmmaking where you would edit, add sound, and add special effects to your film. 

What is Post-Production?

400

A sequence of drawings, typically with some directions and dialogue, representing the shots planned for a movie or television production.

What is a Storyboard?

400

When you cut between two shots in a film.

What is a crosscut?

400

The art, technique and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence.

What is Editing?

400

What focuses light from what you see through the viewfinder into a tiny, (typically) 35mm spot on the back of your film, DSLR, or mirrorless camera.

What is a Lens?

400

Some examples of these are cross-cut, match-cut, and montage. 

What are 3 examples of editing techniques?

500

A recurring stock character that represents something universal in our human experience.

What are character Archetypes?

500

Viewing a scene from a high angle. 

What is Birds Eye View/Aerial?

500

The stage design and arrangement of actors in scenes for a theatre or film production.

What is Mise en Scene?

500

A device in a camera that opens and closes to control the amount of time the image sensor is exposed to light, thus capturing the photograph.

What is a Shutter?

500

Examples of these are high, low, eye level, and over shoulder.

What are 3 examples of camera angles that can be used during production?