{"id":3466,"date":"2017-06-12T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T23:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/?page_id=3466"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:17:35","slug":"film-terminologies-to-know","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/developing-a-multimedia-project\/production\/film-terminologies-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Terminologies to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Framing of Shots<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wide shot \/medium\/close up examples<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Composition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Guide the viewer to look at something in the frame, and remove visual elements that will distract the viewer from your subject. Know examples of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rule_of_thirds\">Rule of thirds<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/the-art-of-perspective-and-symmetry-in-cinematography\/\">Symmetry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Motion of camera<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=45e1XuA-oLY\">General camera movement examples<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MK_p4kzcPVY\">Dolly<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WZJAloPtp9E\">Pan<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7w1yv8VKOH0\">Zoom<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Zoom in: bring viewer to area of interest<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zoom out: give a sense of scale, how big something might be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More examples of motion:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>crane shot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hand-held<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Combinations: Hitchcock, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MWRncNMEhLw\">Scorsese<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video series tips to keep in mind<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Keep sound levels consistent<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keep visual style consistent (similar cuts; typography)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have a 5 second intro on all the videos to introduce series<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Framing of Shots Composition Guide the viewer to look at something in the frame, and remove visual elements that will distract the viewer from your subject. Know examples of: Motion of camera Video series tips to keep in mind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3488,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"parent_template.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[111,112],"class_list":["post-3466","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-multimedia","tag-video-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4947,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3466\/revisions\/4947"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}