08/09/2008 Media

• Continuity is when nothing changes about someone between scenes. For instance if someone in a scene picks up a cup with thier right hand, in the following scene the cup is to be in the same hand.


• In frames people should not be drawn as stick men.


• Arrows inside the frame box indicates a characters movement.


• Arrows outside the box shows the direction of the cameras movement.


• Tilting the camera is rotating it upwards and downwards where jibing is moving the camera upwards and downwards.


• Panning is rotating the camera sideways and tracking is moving the camera sideways


• The 180 degree rule is where there is a straight line which no camera should cross so that a moving object always appears to be travelling in the same direction.
  
• Diegetic sound is when you can see the source of sound. Non deigetic sound is when you cannot see the source.


• Shot reverse shot is when shots cnahge between 2 cameras

SHOT SIZES







This is a persons face and when the camera shows this much of a face it is called an Extreme Close Up (ECU)

Medium Close Up (MCU) is when you can see a persons head and shoulders but not the arm pit, you may also see a part of the horizon.

3 Quarter shot is when you can see a person down to their waist with a background.

Medium Long Shot (MLS) is when you can see the whole body of a person in a frame with little gap above their ead and below their feet. A long shot is even further away with gaps above and below.

RULE OF THIRDS

The rule of thirds is when the frame is divided up into 9 equal parts. This is done with horizontal lines 1 third of the way down and 2 thirds of the way down, also vertical lines 1 third of the way down and 2 thirds of the way down.