Film language

                                                         

                                                                 Film Language

In todays lesson we learnt all about film language and the technical language film producers and directors would use. To help remember the film language we used acronyms.

MISE EN SCENE

C- costume

L- lighting (high key, low key, natural light)

A- actors

M- makeup

P- props

S- setting (place weather, time and date)

CAMERA

F- frame (close-up, extreme clos-up, medium shot, long shot, wide shot, landscape)

A- angle (high level, low level, worms eye, birds eye)  

M- movement, tracking panning, camera and tripod moving, static shot, zoom, whip pan, drone, helicopter shots, handheld)

SOUND

M- music

C- contrapuntal

D-diegetic/non diegetic  

O-off screen

V-voice over

E- editing  

D-dialogue

EDITING

S-screen time

T- transitions

O- Order of narrative

P- pace

E- special effects