Monday, 10 November 2014

The Spoken Word In Film And TV

In films, spoken words may take the form of dialogues, monologues, or narration.

Overlapping dialogue can create or reinforce a sense of nervousness, stress, and isolation.

Dialogue is invaluable for revealing a characters ideas, goals, and dreams, though often it does so more concisely, obliquely and revealingly than conversation in life does.




Different Angles In Films And TV

Canted tilt/Dutch tilt - an unusual angled tilt

Low - low looking upwards

High - high looking downloads

Framing - What does the director want to focus on?

Depth of field - Deep and shallow focus. A camera can only focus its lens on a single point but there will be an area that stretches in front of and behind this focus point still appears sharp.

Focus pulls - The action of adjusting the focus of a camera's lens between 2 predetermined points.

Rule of thirds - Screen is split into a squares and director focuses on centre square.

Digetic Sounds - Sounds that belong naturally with what can be seen in the picture e.g. there is a dog on screen and the sound of barking.

Non-digetic sounds - Sounds which appear to come from elsewhere/outside the visual images.

Movement In Film And TV

Pan - mounted on a tripod, pan from left to right or a pan zoom



Arc



Tilt



Zoom - zoom in to draw attention to person/scene




Reverse Zoom - zoom out to show scene ended



Track/Dolly



Rolling - camera moves diagonally making the image askew



Crane - extreme height



Hand-held - realism, fly on the wall



Mood Board - Horror Genre


Mood Board - Crime/Drama Genre


Mood Board - Action Genre