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What is Film Technique Audience? The person/group who receives the text. It may be a specifically targeted age group.
What is Film Technique Director? The person who supervises the shooting and creative style of the film.
What is Film Technique Editor? The person who coordinates the footage are arranges its sequence. This complex procedure takes place after the film has been shot completely. The editor adds to the meaning of a scene by cutting and joining the film to tell the story the way the director intends it to be held.
What is Film Technique Scriptwriter? The person who writes the screenplay which often includes notations about the use of camera.
What is Film Technique Diegetic Sound? sound which is natural to the action of the fill. Sound that you would expect the characters to reasonably hear in the film. Dialogue, music or noise created by a character and environmental sounds of setting waves crashing, wind blowing, train whistle, traffic noise. Most of what you hear in a film is diegetic sound.
What is Film Technique Non Diegetic Sound? Sound: Sound that is not natural to the nation of the film. Sound that the characters within the film would be expected to hear. For instance, if a character is singing a song that is diegetic. If the song is playing over the top of the action in the film, and the characters wouldn’t be hearing it, it is non- diegetic sound includes: a narrators voice ‘over the top’ of the action.
What is Film Technique Music? A combination of melodic sounds and silence that express ideas and emotion. A component of sound effects in film used to create a certain mood ( suspenseful, tranquil, romantic)
What is Film Technique Voice over? The voice of an unseen narrator or off screen characters in a movie.
What is Film Technique Close up? A shot where the camera is close to the subject and almost no background is shown, usually only a section of the subject.
What is Film Technique Establishing? A scene that shows the audience where the action is about to occur; contains lots of landscape.
What is Film Technique Exterior? d
What is Film Technique Frame? - a single photograph of a film. A series of frames comprises of a shot and a sequence of shots is called a scene. - The composition or what is being included and how it is included. How a director chooses to position the camera frame to capture the subject or action.
What is Film Technique Extreme close up? Focuses on a very small part of the figure being framed.
What is Film Technique Full? A shot that contains a whole figure be it human animal or thing.
What is Film Technique Interior shot? A scene that is shot inside.
What is Film Technique Long? A shot whereto camera is some distance from the subject.
What is Film Technique Mid shot? A short distance between a close-up and a distance shot.
What is Film Technique Over the shoulder? when the camera is behind one person (showing the back of his/ her head) in a dialogue scene. What the viewer sees is the back of one person’s head and the full face of the other
What is Film Technique Dutch Tilt? movement of the camera in any direction that gives the viewer a scenes of strangeness or confusion.
What is Film Technique Pan? Horizontal camera movement.
What is Film Technique Point of view? A shot that takes the view of the subject, showing the audience exactly what they would see.
What is Film Technique tracking? The camera is on a moving platform and the camera mores WITH the subject of the frame. The subject is kept in focus all the time.
What is Film Technique zoom out? Widening the shot for example, from a close-up to a mid-shot.
What is Film Technique Aerial? Shot taken from a plane, helicopter or cherry picker.
What is Film Technique Eye Level? This is the most natural shot
What is Film Technique High Angle? A shot where the camera is about the subject but not directly above.
What is Film Technique Low Angle? A shot where the camera is below the subject or looking up at the object.
What is Film Technique Over shot? : Camera is directly above the subject being filmed, with camera facing down.
What is Film Technique Under shot? When the camera is directly beneath the subject.
What is Film Technique Fast motion speed? Often done to show frantic nature of a character or situation.
What is Film Technique Under exposed? Very dark, underdeveloped appearance
What is Film Technique Hard lighting? Used to create hard edge shadows
What is Film Technique Side lighting? Light source that comes from the side, often creating shadows or to fill In surrounding subject to create a natural look.
What is Film Technique Ambient? Soft lighting surrounding the subject.
What is Film Technique back lighting? This is where the main lighting on the set is behind the subject, who then appears in silhouette ( a dark figure with a bright background)
What is Film Technique High Key lightening? This is where the main lighting is placed in a position that suggests a natural light source. For example, high above to suggest the sun at noon, or on the side where a window is situated to suggest daylight.
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What is Film Technique Low key lightening? Where lighting is used in ‘night’ scene or inside dark place. Often used to suggest something scary or intimate. Shadows are more important in low key lighting.
What is Film Technique Over Exposed? Very bright, washed out appearance.
What is Film Technique Sharp? when the object or figure being filmed is sharply defined. The image has excellent clarity or clearness.
What is Film Technique Soft? When the object or figure being filmed is slightly blurry. IT is often used in romantic scenes but can also be used to suggest disorientation of a character.
What is Film Technique Captions? The information given across the screen to set the scene or to establish the setting.
What is Film Technique Mise En Scene? The visual elements in a scene, such as costumes, lighting, makeup, props, set design and characters.
What is Film Technique Motif? A recurrent thematic elements in a documentary that is repeated in a significant way
What is Film Technique Pace? The rhythm or flow of a film. Some films are fast-paced whereas others are more mellow and languid. Some are slow, they bore the viewer.
What is Film Technique Scene? A series of shots in one location in a film that comprise a complete unit of action.
What is Film Technique Screenplay? The script for a film. It may describe how the camera is to be used in different scenes.
What is Film Technique Story board? A series of illustrations , sketches and drawings that show the sequence of shots to be included in a piece of film.
What is poetic term ( imagery) Metaphor? Is a figure of speech in which one thing is said to be another e.g the curtain of the night
What is poetic term ( imagery) Personification? Is a special type of metaphor in which something that is not alive is given the qualities of a living thing. e.g the sun peeped over the horizon.
What is poetic term ( imagery) Simile? Are figures in which one thing, a person or object is compared to another. e.g he swims like a fish, she is as proud as a peacock
What is poetic term ( sound) Alliteration? is the repetition of consonant in words, which have a close connection e.g. the sound of the hound in the pound horrified her.
What is poetic term ( sound) Consonance? Is repletion of a consonant sound in words which have a close connection e.g trend and trained; killed and cold. Note only the vowel sounds have been changed.
What is poetic term ( sound) Onomatopoeia? Is the use of words with sounds which imitate their meaning e.g ‘bang’, or words which suggest their meaning e.g thunder.
What is poetic term ( sound) Rhyme? means words with identical final sounds, generally used at the end of lines. Is a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables in the way word are presented or said.
What is poetic term ( sound) Chorus? refers to a part of a poem or song which is repeated throughout the main text.
What is poetic term ( sound) Enjambment? Is the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines.
What is poetic term ( sound) Free verse? Is poetry with no restrictions ( no regular rhyme or rhythm)
What is poetic term ( sound) Repetition? Is repeating words, phrases or verses in a text.
What is Film Technique slow motion speed? The action will look sluggish and slow. A director might use this to highlight a specific action. It can also suggest someone is not processing information well.
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