Shot Sizes & Camera Movement
Low Key vs High Key Lighting
Editing
Representation
100

A far away shot size that helps establish the setting.

What is an establishing shot?

100

Uses a bold contrast between light and dark

What is low key lighting or contrast lighting?

100

Quick succession of images

What is a montage?

100

Biased or racist portrayals of people

What are stereotypes?

200

Frames the actors from the waist up

Medium Shot

200

Uses darkness and shadows

What is low-key lighting?

200

A transition where one image is slowly replaced by another

What is a dissolve?

200

Narratives that uplift or affirm a group of people

What is an affirming narrative?

300

The camera moves side to side from one spot

What is panning?

300

Is bright and open looking

What is high-key lighting?

300

An abrupt transition from one shot to another?

What is a transition or cut

300

Narratives that use common stereotypes

Dominant narratives

400

When the camera moves along with the scene or movement of the action

What is tracking?

400

Creates suspense 

What is low-key lighting?
400

Editing cuts that incorporate audio from the previous or next shot

What are J-cuts and L-cuts?

400

Oppression that is found in social organizations like film studios

What is institutional oppression?

500

The camera moves up and down from one spot

What is tilting?

500

Creates warmth and happiness

What is high-key lighting?

500

Sound that cannot be heard by the characters

What is non-diegetic sound?

500

Standing in solidarity with a group or cause, even if it comes with legal or social risks

What is accompliceship?