Technical Codes Flashcards
What is a close up shot?
What effect does this have on the audience?
This is where the object or persons face nearly fills the frame, as a result there is very little background focus and information.
The audience is therefore focused on it, because they are closer they feel more emotionally and physiologically connected.
What is a extreme close up shot?
This is even closer than the close up shot and therefore even more engaging.
What is a mid shot?
What effect does it have on the audience?
This shot is taken from the waist up, most likely to occupy 1/3 of the frame. You could also have two other people in the shot/frame.
The audience is less connected physiologically
What is a long shot?
What effect does this have on the audience?
What can it be used as?
This is where you can see the whole of the characters body.
It can distance the audience from the character making the setting and background more powerful.
An establishing shot
What is a extreme long shot?
This shot is likely to establish a setting or the extreme enormity of something.
What is a point of view shot?
This shows what the character is looking at. It must be sandwiched with the shots of the character.
What is a over the shoulder shot?
What is the rule of over shoulder shots?
This is part of a sequence to show conversation, it commonly reverts to the other character, sometimes intercut with a mid shot. It can also establish a relationship with the characters. Shot reverse shot.
DO NOT CROSS THE 180* LINE
What is Mise ‘en ‘ scene?
Give six examples
Something placed in the scene, what you see and its visual connotations Colour Lighting Costume Props Scenery People - Gestures, facial expressions
What are the two types of lighting?
Low Key
High Key
What is Low Key lighting?
What does this create?
Limited light source
Harsh shadows and has connotations off moral ambiguity
What is High Key lighting?
Involves many light sources
What are the six types of sound?
Diegetic Non-Diegetic On-screen Off-screen Parallel Contrapuntal
What is Diegetic Sound?
A sound which exists within and is generated by the Diegesis
What is Non-Diegetic sound?
Sound which does not exist naturally in the Diegeses often a musical soundtrack
What is On-Screen sound?
The audience sees the noise being generated
