ISL Week One - Glossary

Unit G321 Foundation Production

Week One - Glossary

Genre - Category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

Conventions - A way in which something is usually done, especially within a particular area or activity.

Audience - An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music, video games, or academics in any medium

Target Audience - Particular group of people, identified as the intended audience of an advertisment or message. Also called a target population

Cinematography - The making of motion pictures.

Mise-en-scene - Stage setting, costume, make-up, setting etc.

Stereotype - a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

Protagonist- The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

Antagonist - Character, group of characters, or institution that represents the opposition against which the protagonist or protagonists must contend.

Juxtaposition - the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

Pan - Horizontal movement left and right.

Tilt - Vertical movement of the camera angle, i.e. pointing the camera up and down.

Track - Movement which stays a constant distance from the action, especially side-to-side movement.

Reverse Shot - shot that views the action from the opposite side of the previous shot, as during a conversation between two actors, giving the effect of looking from one actor to the other.

Extreme Long Shot A wider frame value in which subjects in the frame are small; a building, cityscape.

Establishing shot. - Master shot that introduces the place and sometimes the players in a scene.

Extreme Wide Shot - view is so far from the subject that s/he isn't even visible. The point of this shot is to show the subject's surroundings.

Wide Shot - The subject takes up the full frame, or at least as much as comfortably possible.

Mid shot - A value of framing in which the subject is a bit smaller than a medium close-up; a human figure from the waist up.

Close Up - search for termA value of framing where the size of the subject is relatively large and fills most of the frame. For instance a person’s head seen from the neck up, or an object seen in detail.

Extreme Close up - A closer frame value than a close-up; i.e. showing parts of the face or greater detail of an object

Cut-in - Shows some (other) part of the subject in detail.

Two shot - A movie or television shot of two people together.

Over the shoulder shot - Looking from behind a person at the subject.

Noddy Shot- Usually refers to a shot of the interviewer listening and reacting to the subject.

Point of view shot - Shows a view from the subject's perspective.

Bird’s eye view - The camera angle marks the specific location at which a movie camera or video camera is placed to take a shot.

High Angle Shot - usually when the camera angle is located above the eye line

Low angle Shot - A shot from a camera angle positioned low on the vertical axis, anywhere below the eye line, looking up.

 

Diegetic - A sound that is part of the film world and usually heard by those is it

 

Non- Diegetic - A sound which is added later during editing for effect and therefore cannot be heard by those in the film world

Music - A soundtrack added during editing and the sound and tone can affect the meaning of the scene

Asynchronous Sound -Sound which does not appear to arise directly from the scene, such as soundtrack music or voiceover

 

Synchronous Sound - Sound which is directly matched to a moving image. The term is used in two ways in different sources:

 

·         Sound recorded at the same time as the images – for example, dialogue spoken by the actors on set; this does not include any sound added in post-production.

 

·         Sound which appears to the audience to come from the scene.

Sound Effects -Usually added to film in post-production, they may be used to build up ambience or reinforce action.

 

Sound Bridge - Film and TV editing technique in which visual cuts are deliberately not matched with audio cuts

Voice Over - A type of non-diegetic, asynchronous sound in which the audience hear a voice that does not have a source either within the frame or within hearing distance and which is not heard by the people on screen. Voice overs allow us to see things from a particular character’s point of view.