Monday, 22 February 2016

Camerawork Key Words:

Shots

Establishing Shot - The first shot of a new scene
Close-up -  The shot is close up to the subject
Mid-shot - a shot taken at a medium distance
Long Shot -  a shot taken at a long distance
Wide Shot - a shot taken in which you see a subject with its surroundings
Two-shot - a shot with a view of 2 subjects
Aerial Shot - a shot taken from the air
Point Of View Shot - a shot taken to look as if the camera were your own eyes
Over The Shoulder Shot - a shot taken over a subjects shoulder, often used when shooting a conversation


Angle

High Angle - a shot taken from above the subject looking down upon them
Low Angle -  shot taken below the subject looking up at them
Canted Angle - a shot taken where the camera is not on a horizontal line


Movement

Pan - a panning movement is when the camera moves left to right, vice versa, or up and down or vice versa
Tilt -  a tilt shot is where the camera tilts
Track - a tracking shot is when the camera follows a subjects
Dolly - a dolly movement is a smooth movement horizontally
Crane - a crane movement is a shot that is shot from high up that pans down or vice versa
Steadicam - a stedicam is used to create more fluid motion in a shot
Hand-held - when the camera is in the filmers hands
Zoom - when a shot moves closer to the subjects
Reverse Zoom - when the shot moves further away from the subject


Composition

Framing -  where in the picture the subjects are positioned
Rule of Thirds - if you split the shot into 3 vertical lines, where everything would be positioned
Depth of Field - the amount of blur you put into the foreground or background
Deep Focus - where a large amount of the shot is in focus
Shallow Focus - when a small amount of the shot is in focus
Focus Pull - changing focus within the shot

Editing Key Words

General Terms

Continuity Editing - a type of editing that shows the progress of events
Montage Editing - a group of clips edited together which doesn't show a amount of time
Long Take -  a shot taken over a long period of time
Short Take -  a shot taken over a short period of time
Slow Motion - where a shot is seen slower than it would of happened in real life
Ellipsis - a way to show a quick progression in time
Expansion of Time - when you make the duration of a scene last longer than real time
Post-Production Visual Effects - visual effects that did not get shot on camera but were added in afterwards
Cutting - going from one scene to another
Shot/Reverse Shot - Shot reverse shot is where one character is shown looking at another character and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.
Eyeline Match - a premise that you see what the character is seeing
Graphic Match - A graphic match, also called a match cut  is a cut in film editing between either two different objects, two different spaces, or two different compositions in which objects in the two shots graphically match, often helping to establish a strong continuity of action and linking the two shots metaphorically
Action Match - Cutting on action or matching on action refers to film editing and video editing techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action.
Jump Cut -  a cut that quickly happens
Crosscutting - where two scenes are intercut to establish continuity
Parallel Editing -  Parallel editing is the technique of alternating two or more scenes that often happen simultaneously but in different locations.
Cutaway -  where a shot is cutaway abruptly
Insert (Cut in) - where another clip is cutted in


Transitions

Cut - a quick change in scenes
Cross- when a scene crosses over another scene
Dissolve - a gradual change from one image to another
Fade In - when a shot fades in from black
Fade Out - when a shot fades out to black
Wipe -when the scene quickly disappears
Superimposition - a scene that goes over the top of another scene

Sound Key Words

Diegetic - sound that the character would of heard while filming
Non-Diegetic Sound - sound that is added to the scene in editing
Sound Mixing - the mixing of more than one sound
Synchronous/Asynchronous Sound - sound that is in or out of sync with what is visually happening
Sound Effects - fake sounds added in
Sound Motif -  a sound that is associated with something particular
Sound Bridge - a transition from one sound to another
Dialogue - speech of characters
Voiceover - speech that is added over the original scene
Mode of Address/Direct Address - how the characters address each other the viewer
Sound Perspective -  when the pitch/volume of sound changes the feeling of the shot
Soundtrack score - music written to accompany the film
Incidental Music - actual music used in shots
Themes and Stings - a piece of music that is played repeatedly to create personality for the film/program
Ambient Sound -  background sounds