Camera Shots, Angles, Movements, Composition;
High Angle - Looking Down on Action.
Low Angle - Looking Up at Action.
Birds Eye View - Looking straight down on action.
Cantid Angle - Offset, to the side.
Long Shot - Top to toe shot.
Close Up - Facial Shot.
Pull focus - Blurring one thing to focus on something else.
Aerial Focus - High shots from the sky.
Medium Close Up - Shoulders Up.
Medium Shot - Waist up.
Establishing Shot.
Point of View.
Extreme Close Up.
Over the Shoulder Shot.
Two Shot - Two people.
Deep Focus - Different Depths in all focus.
Shallow Focus - Focused on a few things, background blurred.
Pan- Movement left to right or right to left.
Tilt - Up and Down.
Track/ Dolly - On a track for smooth movement.
Crane/ Mechanical Shot - High Sweeping Movement.
Whip Pan - Fast Pan Shot.
Steadicam - Support System/ Harness.
Zoom/ Reverse Zoom - In then out.
Hand Held - Literally in Hand.
Rule of Thirds.
Eyeline Match - Character positioned to preserve spacial continuity. - Established by shots and editing.
180 Degree Rule.
Sound;
Almost 50% of meaning in a film and tv is made up from sound. -- Music can anchor meaning, and dialoge is important in developing a character.
Diegetic Sound: Sounds that emerge from sources within the frame, the character can ear it.
Sound Perspective: Related to whether or not the sound we experience as an audience is from the perspective of a particular character or not. - Emphasizing certain Sounds.
Synchronus Sounds - Sounds which are matched with what is viewed.
Asynchronus Sounds - Sounds which are not matched with what is being viewed.
Ambient Sounds - Common things like water, wind, traffic. -- Provides: Audio Continuity, non unatural silence, reinforces the mood.
Non - Diegetic Sound: Sounds that come from outside the frame that the character can not hear.
Soundtrack - theme tune - strings, orchestral, rythmic, precussion.
Incidental Sound - Often "background" music that adds atmosphere to the action.
Sound Bridge - Smooths the transitions of two different scenes.
Silence: Can only be done in editing stages.
