TV Drama

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 6 edit types

Eye-line match

Crosscutting

Eye trace

Split edit

Montage

Colourising

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

What’s an enigma code (editing)

When only part of narrative is shown, or something else is done to create mystery and curiosity for audiences

What is colourising

Colourising is when a shots colour is edited. Such as making it feel warmer or colder

Name all 7 sound terminology

Accent

Pitch

Diegetic

Non diegetic

Trans diegetic

Ambient sound

Contrapuntal sound

What is diegetic, non diegetic, and trans diegetic sound

Diegetic is what characters can hear

Non diegetic is what the characters can’t here (like music added later in editing yk)

Trans diegetic is a mix of the two

What is an accent

A way a person pronounces word which indicates to viewers where they are from

What is ambient sound

Natural sounds of the location, like wind, rain, birds

What is contrapuntal sound

When the music has a different mood to the scene. Like happy music in a horror movie

What is pitch

How high or low the music is

Name all 6 mise-en-scene terminologies

Body language

Costumes

Colour palette

Location

Lighting

Facial expressions

What is body language

How a characters body is placed/looks, to convey a certain mood or feeling

What is colour palette

The set of colours used in a shot which convey a mood or feeling, or try and highlight something

What is costumes

What characters are wearing

What is location

Where the shot is filmed

What is lighting

How the lighting is, is it dark, is it light, what mood it creates, is it colourful?

What is facial expressions

The expression of a character which conveys an emotion to audiences

Name all 10 audience terminology

Audience interpretation

Active audience

Demographic

Engagement

Mainstream

Niche

Passive audience

Audience positioning

Prosumer

Word of mouth

What’s an active audience and a passive audience

Active - audience which has own thoughts on a media product and interact with the media by sharing it, commenting etc.

Passive - sits back and just watches and accepts the media. Does not interact with it

What is audience interpretation

The way in which audiences read, understand and interpret media products

What is demographic

Factual statistics of the audience. E.g. age, gender, sexuality

What is mainstream and niche

Mainstream is mass audiences

Niche is a narrowed down group of people as an audience

What is audience positioning

How the audience is encouraged to interpret a situation. E.g. pushing them to like one side over the other

What’s a prosumer

An audience member who enjoys commenting and interacting in many ways with media products

What is word of mouth

Process of audiences spreading information and a certain view point about a media product

Name all 7 representation terminology

Archetype

Dominant ideology

Dystopian

Utopian

Marginalised

Misogynistic

Dominant hegemonic group

What is a misogynistic element

Something which makes women lesser than men. Such as portraying women as objects who are controlled by men

What is dystopian and utopian

Dystopian - representation of something in the most negative way possible

Utopian - representation of something in the most positive way possible

E.g. the dystopian representation of the women being dumb contrasts the utopian representation of the men being smart and strong. This representation is harmful blah blah bleh

What is an archetype

A typical example of a character type. E.g. barbie is the archetype for a dumb blonde. (Other examples include, a hero, a villain, a princess. Etc.)

What is a dominant ideology

A set of beliefs which are widely accepted as being the most normal (men are strong, women are weak, etc.)

What is marginalised

When something is made to seem less important than another thing (happens a lot to minority groups against dominant hegemonic value people such as white males)

What is dominant hegemonic group

The main group who are most powerful (white men)