Key Terms

Camera angle, Shot, Movement and Position.

• Establishing shot e.g. shot of a building to show that what follows occurs inside.
• Master shot - A shot that is returned to at the beginning or end of sections.
• Close up
• Long Shot
• Wide Shot
• Two-Shot - Two people in the shot
• High angle - the camera looks down on the subjects
• Low angle - the camera looks up at the subject
• Ariel shot - shot from above
• Point of View
• Pan - camera movement from side to side from a fixed position
• Crane - Filmed with the help of a crane
• Tilt - like 'Pan' but up and down
• Track - follow alongside the subject
• Dolly - the dolly is a short piece of track that allows movement either backwards and forwards, or from side to side
• Zoom/reverse zoom
• Framing - the composition of a shot and the relationship of the elements within it
• Composition - what is included in a shot
• Hand-held
• Steadicam - like a hand-held camera, but steadier.

Editing

• Sound and vision editing - cut, fade, wipe, edit
• FX - often used in the credits of programmes where the edit is enhanced. for example a sound may be used to make the wipe from one shot to the next.
• Dissolve
• Long-Take - the time between edits is could a 'take'
• Superimpose
• Slow motion
• Synchronous/asynchronous sound - the sound matches action/or not.

Sound

• Soundtrack
• Theme tune
• Incidental music - used to create particular emotions at key moments
• Sound effects
• Ambient sound - the sound from within the scene e.g. a radio
• Dialogue - People speaking
• Voiceover
• Mode of address. direct address - do the people in the scene speak to you? are they angry? sarcastic? patronising?

Special Effects

• Graphics - Pictures
• Captions - Used to establish location. Spielberg uses this in close encounters of the third kind to add credibility and authenticity
• Computer generated images (CGI)
• Animation - Indiana jones and the temple of doommakes use of hand-drawn animation during the famous mining car chase.
• Pyrotechnics - fire, explosions, fireworks etc.
• Stunts
• Models - these can be big or little. Think of the ship in Titanic as it sinks (big) and the space ships in star wars (little)
• Back projection - a technique used to display an image behind a person/set often achieved using a 'blue screen'

Mise-En-Scene

• Location
• Set
• Studio/set design
• Costume
• Properties
• Ambient lighting - daylight, lamp light, that makes up part of the production
• Artificial lighting
• Production Design period
• Colour design - remember colours have powerful connotations.