Terminology Test

·         Mise-en-scene – Everything in the shot/frame.

 

·         Key lighting – It is the front lighting, it lights the subject of the shot.

 

·         Juxtaposition – It is the contrast between to subjects/objects.

 

·         Props – Items/objects used by the actors.

 

·         Eyeline match – Shows the line of sight at the thing that an actor is looking at.

 

·         Low angle – Shooting from a lower angle than the subject – looking up.

 

·         Shot/reverse shot – Shot of someone and then shot from someone else over their shoulder. – Must follow the 180 degree rule.

 

·         Dirty over – It is the blurry foreground of someone’s shoulder that frames a shot in a shot/reverse shot.

 

·         Binary opposition – Two opposing things.

 

·         Stereotype – A typical representation of a certain type of person. – Class, gender, race.

 

·         Extreme close up – Detail shot: Really close up view of the subject/object.

 

·         Establishing shot – The first shot of a scene that sets the scene.

 

·         Dolly/track shot – Moving shot, which follows a moving subject/object.

 

·         Location – The place where a scene is set.

 

·         Prosthetics – Fake body parts.

We had a test, testing us on our knowledge of different terminology that we had learnt.