Thursday, 6 October 2011

Glossary/key words or phrases

Mise-en-scene –
Everything in the frame
·         Angles
·         Positioning
·         Lighting/colour
·         Props
·         Make-up
·         Costume
·         Casting
·         Setting/location

Denotations –
Facts, things which you can see/understand

Connotations –
Signifies, what the image/text implies

Ideologies –
Ideas and beliefs

Representation –
The view of how things are shown/presented

Anchorage –
Images and words to help create a meaning

Transcendence –
Surpassing others, lying beyond the ordinary range of perception

Self-actualization –
What a person’s full potential is and realizing that potential

Aesthetic needs –
Appreciation and search for beauty, balance, form etc.

Need to know and understand –
Explains the thoughts that humans have to understand the world around them

Esteem needs –
To be accepted, respected and valued by others

Belongings and love needs –
Desire for closeness and bonding, to feel safe and appreciated

Safety needs –
Personal security, financial security, health and well-being and safety net against accidents/illness and their adverse impacts

Physiological needs –
Literal requirements for human survival, the vital needs

Camera angles/shots:-
·         2 shots
·         Over the shoulder
·         Establishing shot
·         Tilt shot
·         Low shot
·         Eye-level shot
·         High shot
·         Worms eye shot
·         Canted shot
·         Birds eye shot

Match on action –
Some action occurring before the temporally questionable cut is picked up where the cut left it by the shot immediately following

Shot/reverse shot –
A film technique where one character is shown looking at another character and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. The viewer assumes they are looking at each other

180 degree rule –
2 characters in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other, crossing the line would be breaking this rule

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