Video Production Skills Flashcards
What are Block’s 7 Components?
Space, Line, Shape, Color, Tone, Movement, Rhythm
Rule of Thirds
Aligning a subject with the guide lines and their intersection points, placing the horizon on the top or bottom line, or allowing linear features in the image to flow from section to section
Wide Shot
- Show whole body/space
- Establishes scene
- Master shot (entire dramatized scene from start to finish showing everyone from same angle)
Medium Shot
- Shows subject waist up
- Allows connection with subject while providing room for gestures
- Most used
Medium Close Up
- Shows part of subject
- Focuses attention to details
Close Up
- Shows enlarged view of subject
- Draws attention to details
- Adds emotion
Bust Shot
- Shows subject from chest up
- Intimate view of subject
- Focuses attention on face
What is an OTS?
Over the shoulder shot
Pan
- Move to see L/R of screen
- Reveals setting, people, objects
- Conceals
- Sweeps across subject wider than screen
- Shows relationship between two subjects
- Horizontal
Tilt
- Shows what is above/below screen
- Reveals part of vertical subject
- Useful for tall objects
- Can add suspense/surprise
- Vertical
Zoom
- NOT a camera move
- Optical move in lens
- “Variable Focal Length”
- Changes focus
- Magnify subject without moving camera
Dolly/Truck
- Camera moves in/out and L/R on track or wheels
- Different effect from zoom and pan
- Movement of object
- Crane
- Combinations
Handheld
- Use body as stabilizing
- Avoid CU, zooms, movement
- Great for getting camera right into action
High Camera Angle
Held above
Low Camera Angle
Held below or at ground level
Medium Camera Angle
Eye level or level of object
Bird’s Eye Camera Angle
On top of, looking straight down
Canted/Dutch Camera Angle
- Leans to side, not level
- Used to show chaos
Camera Controls
- Focus
- Exposure/Aperture (letting in light)
- Shutter Speed
- Color
Focus
- Zoom all the way in
- Focus Eyes
- Zoom out
Exposure/Aperture
- Amount of light allowed through lens
- F/stops on camera
- Iris/Aperture indicates how open or closed lens may be
F/Stops
1.2, 2, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16
Shutter Speed
- Length of time lens stays open
- Amount of time light enters
Short Shutter Speed
- Less light
- Sharper image
- 1/4 second
Longer Shutter Speed
- More light
- More blur
- 2 seconds
Color
- White balance
- White light broken down to RGB
- Allows for accurate rep of all colors on spectrum
Match Cut
Combining 2 shots of different angle and composition so that the action continues from one to the other in the same place and time
Jump Cut
Combining 2 shots that are similar so the subject jumps from one part of screen to another (discontinuity)
Cutaway
Insert shot, b-roll, CU to reveal action; Covers jump cuts
Transitions
- Fade In/Out
- Dissolve
- Evokes emotion, shift in time, rhythm
