Glossary

Close-up: A close-up is where you can only see past the actors head, the shot is also eye level and you create a close up by using the zoom.
Mid-shot: A mid-shot is a shot from the waist up.
Long-shot: A long-shot is the whole body of a character.
Birdseye view: A bird-eye view is where you see a shot from high up looking down.
Worm View: A worm view is where you have a shot looking up from the floor.
Shallow Focus: Is the limited area of focus depth.
Deep focus: Wide focus of depth in shot.
Juxtaposes- Contrast
Composition- When things are plaud in the shot.
Chekous Gun- a technique where a previous object has a great significance.


Semiotics (semiology) 
Semiotics means- the study of signs

Two parts to any sign
1. signifier- what it is
2. signified- what it suggest 

Iconic- looks like what is represents but suggest something more.

• For example a crown means royalty, wealth, status, rich power etc.

Indexical- Indicates/ makes reference to somebody else.

• Big Coat: refers to the fact that the person is cold.

symbolic- it has an abirtory meaning/ the meaning is only something you have learnt.

• A heart- something that we recognise, it is symbolic for a body part.

Mise-en-Scene - everything it the scene 
Camera
Mise-en-scene
editing
sound 
Body language
Facial expressions
Hair and makeup
Costume
Colour and Lighting- high key and low key.


Sound 

Diegetic- From within the film.

• For example natural sounds (door slamming, dialog, tone of voice etc.)

Non- Digetic- From outside of the film. 

• For example Narration/ voice over.

Editing

'The stuff what gets done on the computer'

Transitions 

• How you switch from one shot to another.

• Cut- used most of the time.

• Fade (Goes to black of white) at the end of the scene. 

• Dissolve

• Jump cut 

Pace 

• Quick Pace of cute- Dramatic Action 

• Slow Pace of Cuts- allows the audience to absorbed into the drama. 

Screen Time

• Indicate who is more powerful in the clip 

Matching

• Graphic Matching- matching to graphic. For Example smoke from a candle leading to smoke from a steam train. Mostly seen at the start of the clip.
• EyeLine Match- First 2 shots- looking at someones face then cutting to what they are looking at.
• Match on Action- Cutting on an Action movement.
• Shot, reverse shot- seen a lot in dialogue. As the two characters are having a conversation the director is doing shot revere shot 

Techniques 

• Flashbacks 
• Slow motion
• colour
• Montage
• Contunity Editing 
•  Parallel Editing