Research: Film vocab.

 

Low key lighting – use of low lighting levels to create shadows and give a feeling of tension or suspense    Mysterious, tense, horror	Jump cut – when a cut is used in the middle of a continuous shot of the same subject. This creates an abrupt, disorienting effect.	Sound motif – when a specific sound is used repeatedly each time we see a certain character or event occur on screen. This use of the sound motif can help to give us meaning about the character or event and depending on the sound helps to make the audience feel a certain way about the character	Establishing shot – usually an extreme long shot or extreme wide angle that helps to establish the location and setting within the story, it is often used at the beginning of a program or film and every time we move to a new place, time or scene in the drama. It helps to ‘establish’ where we are to keep realism.
Extreme long shot - also known as an extreme wide shot (EWS). The shot frames the subject from a distance and focuses on its surroundings. The ELS or EWS functions best as an establishing shot, as more of the location is in the frame.	Transition - technique used in the post-production process of film editing and video editing by which scenes or shots are combined.	Editing for perspective- procedure for composing or editing photographs to better conform with the commonly accepted distortions in constructed perspective. The control would: make all lines that are vertical in reality vertical in the image. This includes columns, vertical edges of walls and lampposts.	Setting -  the time and geographic location within a narrative, either non-fiction or fiction. ... The setting initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story. The setting can be referred to as story world or milieu to include a context
Foley -  reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added to films, videos, and other media in post-production to enhance audio quality.	Body language -  tool formed in fiction film and television series, which is used to convey meaning in a narrative context.	Extreme close up - a more intense version of the close-up, usually showing only the subject's eyes or another part of their face. Insert shot: a close-up that focuses on a specific object, prop, or detail, signaling to the audience that it's important.	Non-diegetic - Sometimes called commentary or non-literal sound, non-diegetic sound is any type of sound that does not specifically exist within the world of the film itself. In other words, it's the type of sound thajt characters in a film are not able to hear, but that we can.
Editor Person in film who specializes in editing film in order to create more impact.	Editor Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film which increasingly involves the use of digital technology.	Continuity editing the process of editing together different but related shots to give viewers the experience of a consistent story in both time and space.	Discontinuity editing editing style that is the opposite of classical editing. In a discontinuous sequence, the filmmaker will deliberately use an arrangement of shots that seem out of place or confusing relative to a traditional narrative.
Spatial editing when the relations between shots function to construct film space.	Temporal editing when the relations between shots function to control time. Characteristics: works to convey the order, duration, or frequency of events.	Graphic editing the comparison of purely pictorial qualities from shot to shot independent of space and time	180 degree rule a cinematography principle that establishes spatial relationships between on-screen characters. When you keep your camera on one side of this imaginary line, you preserve the left/right relationship of your characters and help the audience maintain a sense of visual consistency.
Rhythmic editing when the relations between shots function to control film pace. Characteristics: a shot's physical length corresponds to a measurable duration. rythmic function occurs when several shot lengths form a discernable pattern. equal length will create a steady metrical beat.	Shot/reverse shot Shot/reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character, and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.	Eyeline match An eyeline match is a film editing technique associated with the continuity editing system. It is based on the premise that an audience will want to see what the character on-screen is seeing.	Graphic match the first and the second shot share the same shapes, colours or composition. This can be full on, with the shots resembling one another completely, or it can be more subtle. You might choose to match just one element up between the two.
Action match film editing and video editing techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action. Example: Just as his hand touches the knob, the scene cuts to a shot of the door opening from the other side.	Jump cut A jump cut is a cut in film editing in which a single continuous sequential shot of a subject is broken into two parts, with a piece of footage being removed in order to render the effect of jumping forward in time.	Crosscutting Cross-cutting is an editing technique most often used in films to establish action occurring at the same time, and often in the same place. In a cross-cut, the camera will cut away from one action to another action, which can suggest the simultaneity of these two actions but this is not always the case.	Parallel editing ideo editing technique used in post-production in which separate scenarios are intercut together to present a storyline from multiple perspectives.
Cutaway  supplementary shot that “cuts away” from the main action to indicate something else in the space, such as an object or location.	Insert shot shot of part of a scene as filmed from a different angle and/or focal length from the master shot. Inserts cover action already covered in the master shot, but emphasize a different aspect of that action due to the different framing.	J cut is just the reverse of an L-cut. The audio from the following scene plays over video from the preceding footage.	L cut variant of a split edit film editing technique in which the audio from preceding scene overlaps the picture from the following scene, so that the audio cuts after the picture, and continues playing over the beginning of the next scene.
Dissolve type of film transition in which one sequence fades over another. The terms fade-out and fade-in are used to describe a transition to and from a blank image. This is in contrast to a cut, where there is no such transition.	Fade-in The fade is a means of gradually beginning or ending a scene, and is achieved in the camera by opening or closing the aperture	Fade-out A fade is when the scene gradually turns to a single color — usually black or white — or when a scene gradually appears on screen	Wipe transitional effect in which a moving boundary line or shape replaces one shot with a second shot.
Superimposition when two or more image are placed over each other in the frame. This effect can be accomplished by exposing the same piece of film more than once as we see with double exposure. In narrative film, superimposition is often used for dissolve shots.	Long take when two or more image are placed over each other in the frame. This effect can be accomplished by exposing the same piece of film more than once as we see with double exposure. In narrative film, superimposition is often used for dissolve shots.	Short take one or two seconds long, although contemporary films continue to use shorter and shorter takes of less than a single second (making two or three seconds, which sounds like a short amount of time, not very short at all).	Slow motion Slow motion is an effect in film-making whereby time appears to be slowed down. It was invented by the Austrian priest August Musger in the early 20th century.
Ellipsis Ellipsis is the narrative device of omitting a portion of the sequence of events, allowing the reader to fill in the narrative gaps. Aside from its literary use, the ellipsis has a counterpart in film production. It is there to suggest an action by simply showing what happens before and after what is observed.	Expansion of time making the duration of the video sequence longer than real-time. This is relatively rare — it's not often that you want your audience to see something more slowly than it actually happened.	Post production editing of audio and visual materials to create a film. An editor assembles footage shot by shot, adds music (either original or licensed), and incorporates other visual and sound effects. These elements are woven together to create a multisensory experience we call a movie.	Visual effects Special effects are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual world. Special effects are traditionally divided into the categories of mechanical effects and optical effects.
CGI Computer-generated imagery is the application of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art, printed media, video games, simulators, computer animation and VFX in films, television programs, shorts, commercials, and videos.