Terminology

Camerawork:

• Establishing shots - First shot of a new scene, showing audience where the action is taking place. Usually a very wide shot or extreme wide shot.
• High angle - Where the camera is looking down on the subject.

        

• Low angle - Where the camera is looking up at the subject, anywhere below the eye line. 

       

• Canted angle - Where the camera is set at an angle.

       

• Aerial shot - Taken from an elevated point, like a 'birds eye view.'

       

• Elaborate camera movement
• Tracks - Where the camera moves alongside the objects it is recording. 
• Steadicam - Isolates the operators movements, allowing for a smooth shot, even when the camera moves over an irregular surface.
• Crane shots - A shot taken by a camera on a crane
• Hand-held camera - Where the camera is held by the operator
• Point-of-view shots - what the character is looking at 
• Shallow focus - Where the 'main' image is in focus but the background isn't.
• Focus pulls - focusing on one object to another

Editing:

• Shot/reverse shot - one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.

           

• Juxtaposition - putting things side by side
• Non-continuity editing -  The most common style of editing. Illusion of smooth continuous actions.
• Crosscutting - Establishing actions taken place at the same time, usually in the same place.
• Fast-paced editing - Several consecutive shots in a brief duration, usually 3 secs.
• Less common transitions 
• Dissolve - Gradual transition from one image to another.
• Wipe - Where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another.
• Fade - Gradual appearance of a picture.
• Post-production effects - process of filming, video production and photography. Includes all stages of production occurring after shooting individual segments.

Soundtrack :

• Music - The song(used in music videos)
• Diegetic sound - A noise that has a source on screen, not been editing in.
• Non diegetic sound -  A noise which does not have a source on screen, it has been added in.
• Sound effects - Artificially created sound. Used to emphasise other contents in the film/video.
• Sound bridge - Were sound carries over a visual transition in a film.
• Voiceover - where a voice - which is not in the narrative - is used.

Misse en scene:

• Lighting (low key lighting) - accentuates the  contours of the subject by throwing shade in some areas and a fill light which will illuminate the shadow areas.

          

• Location/set - Where it is recorded.
• Costume and makeup - What the actor is wearing or their overall appearance.
• Props - An object that is used on stage or on screen by actors.
• Casting and performance style - Who is in the video/film. How they are represented in it.
• Blocking - precise staging of actors in the film/video.