Terminology

Camerawork

• Establishing Shot. An establishing shot is usually the first shot of a new scene, designed to show the audience where the action is taking place. It is usually a very wide shot or extreme wide shot.
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• Hand-held camera or hand-held shooting is a filmmaking and video production technique in which a camera is held in the camera operator's hands as opposed to being mounted on a tripod or other base.

• A point of view shot (also known as POV shot, first-person shot or a subjective camera) is a short film scene that shows what a character (the subject) is looking at (represented through the camera).

• Deep focus The opposite of shallow focus is deep focus, in which the entire image is in focus. ... Focus pulls Focus pull (AKA rack focus) is a creative camera technique in which you change focus during a shot. Usually this means adjusting the focus from one subject to another

Editing

• Shot reverse shot (or shot/countershot) is a film technique where 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. ... Juxtapose means to place things side by side to create meaning. Juxtaposition in film is used by film makers to create meaning in the audience's mind by positioning different shots next to one another

• Continuity editing is the most common style of film editing. ... Non-continuity editing is when shots are mismatched to disrupt the impression of time and space. This draws the audiences' attention to the process of cutting and disturbs the illusion of 'reality'. An example is the use of flash backs

• Cross-cutting is an editing technique most often used in films to establish action occurring at the same time, and usually in the same place. In a cross-cut, the camera will cut away from one action to another action, which can suggest the simultaneity of these two actions but this is not always the case.

Fast cutting is a film editing technique which refers to several consecutive shots of a brief duration (e.g. 3 seconds or less). It can be used to convey a lot of information very quickly, or to imply either energy or chaos.

• Dissolve

Also known as mix, cross dissolve, or cross fade. It’s the most commonly used transitions from one shot to another.Dissolve is the effect that, while the first shot gradually disappears, the second shot becomes more and more visible.Dissolve is not only another way to change shot, it has different meaning and function from cut.

• Wipe

One shot replaces another following a 2-dimension pattern.Almost all video editing software provide pre-defined wipe patterns. You adjust the duration of overlapping between two shots, then just choose and apply a wipe pattern to the transition. Done.With the ability of manipulating clips, you can create your own wipe pattern.

• Fade

 is eventually a dissolve between normal image shot and black screen. When you dissolve from image to black, it’s a fade out. When dissolving from black to image, it’s called fade in.

• Post Process Effects. Unreal Engine provides Post Process Effects to allow artists and designers to tweak the overall look and feel of the scene. Examples of elements and effects include bloom (HDR blooming effect on bright objects), ambient occlusion, and tone mapping.

Soundtrack

• A soundtrack, also written sound track,[1] can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

• Diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film: ... sounds made by objects in the story. music represented as coming from instruments in the story space ( = source music)

• A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media. These are normally created with foley.

• A sound bridge is a type of sound editing that occurs when sound carries over a visual transition in a film. This type of editing provides a common transition in the continuity editing style because of the way in which it connects the mood, as suggested by the music, throughout multiple scenes.

• Voiceover (also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique where a voice—that is not part of the narrative (non-diegetic)—is used in a radio, television production, filmmaking, theatre, or other presentations.

Mise en scène

• Low-key lighting is a style of lighting for photography, film or television. It is a necessary element in creating a chiaroscuro effect. ... Low key light accentuates the contours of the subject by throwing areas into shade while a fill light or reflector may illuminate the shadow areas to control contrast.

• Locative media or location-based media (LBM) are media of communication functionally bound to a location. ... Locative media are digital media applied to real places and thus triggering real social interactions.

• A make-up artist or makeup artist is an artist whose medium is the human body, applying makeup and prosthetics on others for theatre, television, film, fashion, magazines and other similar productions including all aspects of the modelling industry.costume drama in Media topic. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English ˈcostume ˌdrama noun [countable] a play, TV programme, or film that is about a particular time in history, in which people wear costumes from that time.

• A prop, formally known as (theatrical) property, is an object used on stage or on screen by actors during a performance or screen production. In practical terms, a prop is considered to be anything movable or portable on a stage or a set, distinct from the actors, scenery, costumes, and electrical equipment.

• In the performing arts industry such as theatre, film, or television, a casting (or casting call) is a pre-production process for selecting a certain type of actor, dancer, singer, or extra for a particular role or part in a script, screenplay, or teleplay.

• From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Block programming or television block is the arrangement of programs on radio or television so that several items of one general class, such as soap operas or popular music, occur in sequence.