Film Techniques Flashcards
(34 cards)
What is a Low Angle shot?
The camera is placed lower than the subject, looking upward.
Used to demonstrate status and power – the subject looks powerful and we as the audience feel powerless.
What is a High Angle shot?
The camera is placed higher than the subject, looking downward.
Used to demonstrate status and power – the subject looks powerless and we as the audience feel powerful.
What is a Bird’s Eye View shot?
The camera is placed directly above the subject.
Can be used to establish a subject’s relationship to the environment.
What is a Worm’s Eye View shot?
The camera is placed directly below the subject.
Can be used to establish a subject’s relationship to the environment.
What is an Eye Level shot?
The camera is placed directly in front of the subject, at their eye level.
Can make the subject appear equal with the audience.
What defines a Wide Shot?
Landscape shot, can see the subject’s full body, generally quite ‘flat’.
Usually the first shot to show when and where the story takes place.
What is a Long Shot?
Very similar to Wide Shot, but plays with perspective, so has more ‘depth’.
Creates a sense of positioning and context in space.
What is a Mid Shot?
From the belly button to the top of the head.
Used to show thoughts, feelings, reactions, and communication between characters.
What is a Close Up shot?
The subject’s face, hand, etc. fills the frame.
Used to show thoughts, feelings, and reactions.
What is an Extreme Close Up?
Usually a specific part of the subject’s face or body fills the frame.
Used to show nuances of thoughts, feelings, and reactions.
What is an Over The Shoulder Shot?
Shot over the shoulder, with part of the subject’s shoulder still in view.
Provides a personal perspective of a voyeur.
What is a Two Shot?
Two subjects are in the shot.
Used to show a relationship between characters.
What is a Three Shot?
Three subjects are in the shot.
Used to show a relationship between characters.
What is a Pan in camera movement?
The camera is locked off and moves in a range from left to right and right to left only.
Can build tension, mystery, anxiety, and panic.
What is a Tilt in camera movement?
The camera is locked off and moves in a range from up to down, and down to up only.
Can reveal something above or below the subject.
What is a Dutch Angle?
The camera falls to the side giving a diagonal shot.
Creates an unsettled, off-balance feeling in the audience.
What is a Dolly/Zoom?
The camera is locked off and moves from outward to inward, or inward to outward only.
Used to bring the audience’s attention to something minute or the bigger picture.
What is a Cut in editing techniques?
Simply going from one shot to another.
Used to show a change in perspective and advance the story.
What is Cutting On Action?
Cutting from one shot to another while the subject is still in motion.
Ensures seamless movement and video for the audience.
What is a Cut Away?
Cutting to an insert shot of something else, and returning back to the original shot.
Can show a flashback or reveal something.
What is Cross Cutting?
Cutting backward and forward between different locations.
Used to show different viewpoints on an event.
What is a Jump Cut?
Cuts between the same shot; location and angle do not change.
Used to deliberately show the passing of time.
What is a Match Cut?
Cuts between two shots that are similar either by matching the action or the location.
Mainly used to see transitions.
What is a Fade In/Out?
Dissolving either to or from black.
Used to signify the beginning or end of a scene.
