Media Revision AS

CAMERA WORK -
Framing - What's included and excluded in the shot.

Shallow Focus - Isolates the subject form the background.

Crane - Camera Movement - Camera above the ground moving through the air in any direction.

Track - Camera Movement - Travels through space towards/backwards of laterally.

Pan - Camera Movement - Camera body turning left or right.

Establishing shot - Distant framing of special relations among characters; object and setting in a scene

MISE - EN - SCENE

Facial expression - Key in close up shots as helps convince audience of reality.

Costumes and Makeup - Personality, Sound, status or job.

Costumes and Makeup - Deliberate to keeping with the character.

Props - Anything held or used by the actor/character.

Positioning - Signals importance of character or object.

Setting - Location where the film or programme is shot.

SOUND

Non - Diegetic sound - Sound that is added to a scene, that isn't heard by the characters.

Monologue - A speech made by one person.

Sound effects - Enhance a realistic sense of place.

Pleonastic sound - An effect that is added to exaggerate sound.

Contrapuntal sound - often music, that does not seem to 'fit' with the image.

Sound Motif - Sound that is associated with a particular, character, feeling or place.

EDITING - Process of selecting a number of shots together.

EDITING - creates perspective or view point within a sequence.

EDITING - Develops how the audience is positioned in relation to the representation of the character.

Juxtaposition Shot - The placing of shots side by side, shots interact with each other to create meaning.

180 Degree Rule - Dictates the camera should stay in one of the areas on either side of the axis of action.

Straight cut - An instant change to another shot.

POV Cutting - off-screen - cut to - the object the character is looking at. POV shown from the characters optical view.

Crosscutting - Editing that alternates shots of two or more lines of action occurring in different places, simultaneously.

Shot - Reverse - Shot - during conversation between characters, closly linked with reaction shot.

Cutaway shot - A bridging shot between two shots of the same subject.

Graphic Match - Two successive shot joined so they create strong similarity of compositional elements.

Jump cut - Elliptical cut that appears to be an interruption of a single shot.

Dissolve - Form of transition editing - one image gradually begins to fade and the second image appears.

MANIPULATION OF TIME - Events by their nature happen chronologically, by story tellers can change this to make the story to give a different perspective.

Expansion of time - Prolonging the action can prolong the suspense or draw out an emotional response.

Flashback - Memories or past events shown by juxtaposing shots of present with the past.

Special Effects - Added in post production.