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Media Studies

A-Level Media Studies

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Fish eye lens

  • Wide, distorted image

  • Isn’t in usual state, insanity

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Soft focus

  • Popular in 50s-60s, filtered

  • Dreamy, romantic setting

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Deep focus

  • Allows everything in the frame to be in crisp focus

  • Sends signifier that everything is important

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Shallow focus

  • Character is focused, emulsifies how human eye works

  • Important moments, individual objects

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Racking focus / focus pull

  • Adjusting focus within a shot

  • Gives a sense of scale

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Dolly / Hitchcock zoom

  • camera moves forward while lens is going back

  • Uneasy effect, panic, madness, drama

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Canted / Dutch tilt

  • Off kilter or wonky

  • Reflects characters frame of mind