Vocabulary – MoPA – Rotation 2

 Ambient Sound - What can be heard naturally in the environment being photographed.

 Angle View – A shot taken with multiple angles of your subject.

 Bird’s Eye View – Looking down on the subject being photographed, as if from a birds perspective.

 Cinematography – Motion picture photography.

 Close Up – A shot in which the subject is larger than the frame, revealing much detail.

 Communication – A technique for expressing ideas effectively; could include motion pictures, photography, other forms of art, speech, or the written word

 Concept – Something made up in the mind: a thought or idea

 Directing – Supervising the production of a show (as for stage or screen) with responsibility for the overall look of the finished project.

 Documentary – A movie or TV show about a non-fictional place, person or thing.

 Dolly – A wheeled platform for a television or motion picture camera that enables the camera to be moved in smooth, fluid motions.

 Editing – Taking out the unnecessary footage from individual clips, and placing the clips in the correct order as in your movie script.

 Extreme Close Up – A camera shot that is much larger than the frame, providing even more detail than a close up.

 Framing – To compose the subject within the boundaries of the image.

 Idea – What your movie will be about.

 Location – Where your filming takes place (in a studio, outside, on a set etc.)

 Long Shot – A camera shot from far away, the subject looks much smaller than its surroundings.

 Master Shot – A single shot, usually a wide shot that incorporates the whole scene from beginning to end. Typically this shot will be filmed first, and then all the close-ups and other shots afterwards.

 Medium Shot – A camera shot from a medium distance, usually showing the characters from the waist up, allowing the audience to see body language (not so much facial expressions).

 Movie –A representation (as of a story) by means of motion pictures and sound.

 Pan –To rotate a motion picture camera from left to right, or right to left, to create a panoramic view.

 P.O.V. or Point of View – To compose the subject within the boundaries of the image.

 Post Production – Work performed on a movie after the end of the principal photography and usually involves editing, music, and sound design, and may include special visual effects.

 Pre-Production – Arrangements made before the start of filming. This can include script writing, storyboarding, set construction location scouting, and casting.

 Pre-visualization – To interpret a story or concept into visual terms.

 Production – In the movie industry, this term refers to the phase of the movie making during which principal photography occurs.

 Rough Cut – The first edited version of a documentary or narrative story.

 Scene – A motion picture or television episode or sequence.

 Script – A general term for a written work detailing the story, setting, and dialogue.

 Self-expression – The showing of one’s own personality; assertion of one’s own traits.

 Shot – A continuous block of unedited footage from a single point of view.

 Sound – Whatever auditory (things that can be heard) additions there are to accompany the visual footage.

 Storyboard – A sequence of pictures created by an artist to communicate the desired general visual appearance on camera of a scene or movie.

 Tape – What records the images to be viewed later.

 Tilt – To rotate a motion picture camera from a high angle to a low angle, or a low angle to a high angle.

 Tracking Shot – A scene photographed while moving. (the camera is moving through the scene.)

 Transitions – The change between two clips.

 Tripod – A tool with three legs, that is used to hold the camera still; it allows the height of the camera to be adjusted.

 Video Camera – A camera that records sounds and images with digital data and is processed with computers.

 Voice-Over – Indicates dialogue will be heard on the movie soundtrack, over images but the speaker will not be shown.

 Worm Eye View – Opposite of a bird’s eye view. The point of view of the camera is looking up at the subject.

 Zoom – To focus the camera on an object so that the object’s apparent distance from the observer changes, getting closer or farther.