Key Words and Concepts

Mise en Scene

Setting: Time, Place, symbolic objects, colour coding, weather and tone, pathetic fallacy. Performance/Movement: Speech expressions, gestures, posture, behaviour, eye contact, proxemics, Costumes/Props: Dress code, uniform, colour, smart, militaristic, casual, formal, symbols, objects  .
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Lighting

Lighting: hard lighting, soft lighting, high-key lighting, low key lighting, three point lighting, natural, artificial, chiaroscuro, colour, mood, temperature, lighting focal point, back-lighting, narrow lighting, broad, reflections, gels, shadows Colours: colour palette, black and white, binary opposites, filters, mood, tone, style, ambience, temperature, environment.
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Cinematography 

Camera composition and  type of shot, Establishing, long shot, mid shot, POV, close up, extreme close up, cut in, cut away, eye line, character positioning and power, framing, height, fixed, non-fixed, lens style, focus, depth of field, open frame, closed frame, wide angle lens, anamorphic lens. Camera movement: crane, tilt, dolly, track left and right, pan, whip pan, speed of movement, motivated track, steadicam, handheld shot.
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Sound: 

Types of sound: Diegetic, non-diegetic, parallel, contrapuntal, silence, volume, tone, pitch, synchronous, asynchronous, sound motif, timbre, ambient sound track, heightened diegetic sound, wall of noise, crescendo, drone, pad, discordant sound, cacophony, euphony, major key, minor key. Dialogue, including accents, dialect, quantity of speech, hesitations, monologue, voice over, Musical accompaniment or theme: sound motif, theme, tempo, pace, rhythm, mood, emotion
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Editing: 

Transitions types: , Cut, cut to, jump cut, dissolve, wipe, fade, synchronised sound, split edit, parallel cut, eye line match, match cut, continuity, Editing Pace: shot duration, length of time between cuts, frequency of cuts, slow motion, rhythm. Post production effects: washes, desaturation, vignetting, slow motion, ramping, colourisation, black and white, colour balance. Special effects: CGI, matte shot, green screen,
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