TV Drama

Name all 9 camera angles

Name all 9 camera angles

Low angle

High angle

Aerial shot

Overhead shot

Dutch angle

Eyelevel

Over shoulder shot

Hip level shot

Ground level shot

What’s a Dutch angle

When the camera is rotated

Name all 13 camera movements

Static shot

Pan

Whip pan

Tilt

Zoom in

Zoom out

Crash zoom

Dolly Zoom

Camera roll

Tracking

Trucking

Arc

Boom

What’s a pan and whip pan

When the camera rotate horizontally while staying in the same place

With the pan is that but faster

What’s a tilt

When the camera rotate vertically while stay in the same place

What’s a crash zoom

A fast zoom

What’s a dolly zoom

When the camera moves one way, but the zoom moves another way

What’s a camera roll

When the camera rotates

What’s tracking and trucking

Tracking follows a character behind or in front

Tracking follows a character horizontally

What’s arc

When the camera moves around the subject

What’s a boom

When the camera moves up or down

Name all 5 edit types

Eye-line match

Crosscutting

Eye trace

Split edit

Montage

What’s eyeline match

When a shot shows one person looking at something then the next shot shows what they’re looking at

What’s cross cutting

Showing different scenes/plots at the same time by alternating the shots

What’s eye trace?

When the main focus is in the same place in different shots

What’s a split edit?

When audio start separately to the shot

Name all 7 shot types

Establishing shot

Master shot

Wide shot

Mid shot

Medium close up

Close up

Extreme close up

What is diegetic, non-diegetic, and trans diegetic sound ?

Diegetic is what the characters can hear

Non diegetic is what the characters can’t hear

Trans diegetic is when diegetic switches to non diegetic or vice versa

Stuart Hall representation theory

Media uses stereotypes, these stereotypes, reduce people down to oversimplified cliches

People in power tend to represent people outside the dominant hegemonic groups in a stereotypical way

Steve Neale genre theory

Genres are made up of repetition and difference

Audience enjoys familiarity of repeated conventions, and also enjoy seeing different and unique conventions

Roland Barthes semiotics theory

Hermeneutic codes - any mysterious thing which engage the audience

Proairetic codes - elements which signify something will happen in the future as a result

Symbolic codes - symbols which represents something

Semantic codes - symbols, which we understand has a hidden meaning (a connotation)

Cultural codes - codes which you will only understand if you are part of that culture

Hermeneutic code ?

Any mysterious thing that makes audience curious

Proairetic codes

Codes which symbolise something will happen in the future

Symbolic codes

Symbols which represent something

Semantic codes

Codes which we understand has a hidden meaning (a connotation)

Cultural codes

Codes which you will only understand if ur a part of it

Name all theorists and theories

Roland Barthes semiotics theory

Steve neales genre theory

Stuart halls representation theory