Camera Techniques
When the camera is positioned below the subject, shooting upward, often making the subject appear powerful or imposing.
What is a low-angle shot?
This is an editing technique that alternates between two or more scenes happening simultaneously in different locations.
What is cross-cutting?
This is the kind of lighting you need to create a silhouette.
What is backlight?
This is a category of film characterized by particular styles, themes, or subject matter (horror, comedy, drama, etc.)
What is genre?
This is the planning phase of filmmaking, including scriptwriting, casting, location scouting, and scheduling.
What is pre-production?
This camera angle is positioned above the subject, shooting downward, often making the subject appear vulnerable or small.
What is a high-angle shot?
This is a gradual transition where the image slowly appears from black or disappears to black.
What is a fade in/fade out?
This is bright, even lighting with minimal shadows, often used in comedies and upbeat scenes.
What is high-key lighting?
This is everything visible within the frame, including sets, props, costumes, makeup, and actor positioning. HINT: It's the weird French one...
What is mise-en-scene?
This is the main phase of film production when the majority of scenes are shot with the main cast.
What is principal photography?
This shot is taken directly overhead, looking down at the subject from above.
What is a bird's-eye view shot?
This is a gradual transition where one shot slowly blends into another shot.
What is a dissolve?
This is dramatic lighting with strong contrasts between light and dark areas, often used in thrillers and dramas.
What is low-key lighting?
This kind of filmmaker's personal style and thematic concerns are evident across multiple films, treating the director as the "author." Some notable ones are Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino.
What is an auteur?
This is the final phase of filmmaking involving editing, sound design, visual effects, and color correction.
What is post-production?
When the camera is tilted, creating diagonal lines that suggest unease or disorientation.
What is a Dutch angle?
What is a match cut?
This is a technique where both the foreground and background elements remain in sharp focus simultaneously.
What is deep focus?
This type of film is usually dark and cynical, characterized by shadowy lighting, urban settings, and morally amibiguous characters.
What is film noir?
This is the person responsible for the visual aspects of filming, including camera work and lighting.
Who is the Cinematographer or Director of Photography?
This is a shot which the camera move alongside or follows the subject, often using tracks, dollies, or handheld movement.
What is a tracking shot?
This is a close-up shot put into a scene to highlight an important detail or object.
What is an insert shot?
He is, by far, the most celebrated and popular cinematographer in the world, having worked on such films as 1917 (2019), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and No Country for Old Men (2007).
Who is Roger Deakins?
This is what we call it when a character addresses the audience acknowledging they are in a film. Notable examples would be Deadpool and Ferris Bueller.
What is breaking the fourth wall?
This is usually an opening shot that shows the audience the location, time period, or context for the scene that follows.
What is an establishing shot?