AS Media Studies - Technical Aspects

Mise-en-scene (7)

• Props

• Performance

• Proximity

• Lighting

• Color

• Costume, Hair and Make-up

• Setting

Lighting Techniques (7)

• High-key

• Low-key

• Soft

• Harsh

• Natural

• Practical

• Chiaroscuro

Color Aspects (3)

• Hue

• Saturation

• Brightness

Cinematography (4)

• Angles

• Shots

• Movements

• Depth of Field

Angles (5)

• High

• Low

• Eye-line

• Dutch

• Overhead/Bird’s eye

Shots (7)

• (Extreme) Close-up

• (Extreme) Long

• Medium shot

• Over-the-shoulder

• Establishing

• POV

• Reaction

Movements (8)

• Pan

• Tilt

• Zoom

• Track

• Crane

• Dolly

• Roll

• Handheld

Sound (11)

• Diegetic

• Non-diegetic

• A/Synchronous

• Sound Motif

• Sound Perspective

• Ambient

• Dialogue

• Sound Effects

• Soundtrack

• Voiceover

• Soundmixing
  

Soundtrack Branches (8)

• Score

• Theme

• Incidental

• Stings

• Ambient

• Melodic

• Discordant

• Contrapuntal

Types of Voiceover (2)

Auto-diegetic - By the protagonist

Homo-diegetic - By another character

Editing (10)

• Transitions

• Jump-cut

• Cutaway

• Cross-cutting/Parallel editing

• Insert

• Graphic Match

• Action Match

• Shot-reverse-shot

• Eyeline Match

• Pacing

Transitions (9)

• Visual effects

• Superimposition

• Fade in/out

• Ellipsis

• Slow motion

• Long/short takes

• Wipe

• Dissolve

• Cut

Visual Effects (3)

• CGI

• Compositioning

• Performance Motion Capture

Depth of Field (6)

• Deep Focus

• Shallow Focus

• Rack Focus

• Soft Focus

• Split-Diopter lens

• Tilt-shift lens