Terminology
This term is often associated with the person who secures funding for the production and they will often gather personal.
What is a Producer.
A Gaffer will often say this when turning on a light.
What is Striking.
A camera angle in film and television where the camera is positioned behind one character and facing another.
Also known as a basic cut or straight cut, this is a transition between two shots with no special emphasis.
What is a Hard Cut.
This often tells you how light sensitive your film is.
What is ISO.
This term is often associated with the person on lighting.
What is a Gaffer.
a type of light with few hard shadows that's bright yet balanced.
What is Soft Lighting.
A camera shot that shows a subject's entire body from head to toe within the frame.
What is a Full shot.
post-production phase to manipulate color, white balance, exposure, and contrast.
What is Color correction.
The different types of camera shots and angles used to convey information about characters and settings, and to enhance the overall mood of a film.
What is Shot Variation.
This term is often associated with the different shots of a film.
What is Cinematography.
A standard lighting technique used in film, television, photography, and other art forms that employs three light sources to illuminate a subject.
What is Three Point Lighting.
An elevated view of an object or location from a very steep viewing angle, creating a perspective as if the observer were a bird in flight looking downward.
What is a Birds Eye View.
Refers to the number of pixels in each dimension that a video contains.
What is Resolution.
A camera setting that adjusts the color temperature of an image to make white objects appear white.
What is White Balance
A term that refers to the composition of a shot, including the lighting, set design, framing, camera movement, sound, and visual environment.
What is Mise-en-scène.
This light is generally used to help illuminate a subjects face, and help show a subjects facial features often hidden in shadow. This light is also the second light in a Three Point Light system.
What is a Fill light.
A camera technique that shows the audience what a character sees in a scene, as if the viewer is in the character's position.
What is Point of View
An usual amount of time on a single shot.
What is a Long Take
The size of a frame in relation to the subject or setting it contains.
What is Shot Size.
A camera term that refers to how much of the image is in focus.
What is Depth of field.
A lighting technique that uses a concentrated light source to create sharp shadows and high contrast between light and dark areas.
What is Hard Lighting.
This shot is so far away from the subject that they are no longer visible. This is used to create a sense of a character being lost or almost engulfed by the sheer size of their surroundings.
What is Extreme Wide Shot
a film editing technique that alternates between two or more scenes to show that actions are happening simultaneously, often in the same place.
What is Cross-cutting.
The arrangement of characters in a scene to emphasize their relationships with one another.
What is Social Blocking.