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Camera Work
Lighting and Angles
Editing
Terminology
Concepts and History
100
A length of uninterrupted camera work
What is a shot?
100
Scene is flooded with shadows and darkness to create suspense and suspicion
What is low-key lighting?
100
A scene slowly goes to black or white to imply time has passed.
What is fade?
100
The study of sign, symbols, and signification.
What is semiotics?
100
A 1940s postwar Hollywood crime genre that features mysterious, sexy women, cynical male protagonists, shadowy sets and distorted camera angles.
What is film noir?
200
A stationary camera moves left or right
What is "pan"?
200
Audience sees what character sees.
What is the Subjective shot?
200
An image fades into another to create a connection between images.
What is dissolve?
200
The acquired significance of a word in usage, arising from associations made with the word/thing within specific cultural contexts.
What is connotative meaning?
200
A type of film popularized in the 1930s and 1940s that integrates broader social conflicts into the individual conflict between its characters.
What is the Social Problem Film?
300
The camera itself is moving with the action
What is dolly tracking?
300
Lighting that conveys evil.
What is bottom lighting?
300
The frame cuts back and forth to action that is happening simultaneously.
What is cross-cutting?
300
A shot that sets the scene.
What is an establishing shot?
300
The first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures.
What were Nickelodeans?
400
Camera work where people are seen from the waist up
What is a medium shot?
400
Lighting that conveys a split personality or moral ambiguity
What is side lighting?
400
A series of shots placed quickly together to show events in time.
What is a montage?
400
The position from which a person, event, or object is seen onscreen.
What is point of view shot?
400
This term refers to a system of beliefs that groups of people share and believe to be inherently true.
What is Ideology?
500
Everything that appears within the frame of the shot including costumes, props, acting, lighting and makeup.
What is mise-en-scene?
500
Shoots up at subject; used to create size, power, status.
What is Low Angle shot?
500
A shot of a person looking, then a cut to what they saw.
What is an eye-line match?
500
A shot that is tilted sideways to add tension.
What is a Dutch-angle?
500
An early "peep show" device that created the illusion of movement for individuals viewers.
What the Kinetoscope?