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shot |
a single piece of film uninterrupted by cuts |
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establishing shot |
often a long shot or series of shots that establish a scene |
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long shot |
shot from a long distance; full body |
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medium shot |
most commonly used; medium length from the object being shot |
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close-up |
the image being shot takes up at lease 80% of the frame |
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extreme close-up |
takes up the frame as a whole like an eye or hand |
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two shot |
a scene between two people exclusively from one angle; used in conversation |
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eye level |
shot taken from normal height |
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high angle |
camera is above the subject; makes the subject look smaller than normal or less powerful |
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low angle |
camera looks up at the subject; makes subject look large and powerful |
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pan |
stationary camera that moves side to side |
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tilt |
camera pivots up and down along a vertical axis |
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zoom |
camera moves to make an object seem closer or further away; used during character revealing moments |
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dolly/tracking |
camera is on a track that allows it to move with the action |
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boom/crane |
camera is on a crane over the action; overhead shots |
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high key lighting |
scene is flooded with light; bright |
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low key lighting |
scene is flooded with shadows; darkness |
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bottom lighting |
direct lighting from below |
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side lighting |
direct lighting from one side |
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front lighting |
soft lighting on the actor's face; halo effect |
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back lighting |
strong lighting behind the subject |
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cut |
most common editing technique; two pieces of film are spliced together to cut to another image |
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dissolve |
kind of fade in when one image is replaced by another |
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wipe |
new image wipes off the previous image |
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flashback |
cut or dissolve to an image that has happened in the past |
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shot-reverse |
a shot of one subject, then another, then back to the first |
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cross cutting |
cut into action that is happening simultaneously |
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point of view |
shows what things look like from the perspective of someone or something in the scene
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eye-line match |
cut to an object, then to a person; shows what a person seems to be looking at |
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fade |
can be from black or white; start in darkness and gradually assumes full brightness (fade in) or vice versa (fade out) |
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diegetic sound |
sound that would be logically heard by the characters in the film |
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non-diegetic sound |
sound that could not be heard by the characters but is designed to be heard by the audience |