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The following are film terms that describe many of the rhetorical devices used in film—in other words, these terms describe the rhetorical tools that a film uses to communicate the experience and purpose of scenes to the audience, whether it be to create a feeling or an idea, or to convey information or understanding, or a combination of the former, etc.
Everything that appears before the camera, and how it is arranged, is considered a distinct rhetorical device which works to communicate something to the audience, including:
Props: Beyond Setting or Set, any physical object placed in a scene.
Quality of Acting : Includes tone of voice, facial expressions, body language, etc.
Costumes: Refers to the actual clothing and accessories the actors are dressed in.
Lighting: The use of and quality of light and/or lack of light to convey a mood or idea or feeling (see the definition, for example, of Chiaroscuro lighting under Cinematography).
Space: Refers to the physical space between actors, or the space created through Set or Props to convey openness, for example, or claustrophobia, or intimacy.
Setting and sets: Refer to the location or the construction of a location where a scene is filmed.
Set: The physical elements that are constructed or arranged to create a sense of place.
Setting: The time and place of a play or screenplay.
Sequence: A series of scenes or shots unified by a shared action or motif.
Shot: A single stream of images, uninterrupted by editing.
Framing: Cinema is an art of selection. The edges of the image create a “frame” that includes or excludes aspects of what occurs in front of the camera.
Angle of Framing: The position of the camera or point of view in relation to the subject being shown. Seen from above, the subject would be shot from a “high angle”; from below, it would be depicted from a “low angle.”
Point of View Shot: A shot placed approximately where a character’s eyes would be, showing what the character would see.
Long Shot, Medium long shot, Medium close up, Close up, Extreme close up: Indicates how large or close the objects or characters seem to be.
Full shot: Reveals the character’s entire body in the frame.
Tracking shot: the entire point of view moves, on tracks or a dolly, following, for instance, a walking figure.
Pan shot: the point of view pivots from left to right, or vice versa, but without changing its vertical axis.
Crane shot: the point of view films an outdoor scene from high above.
Editing: How different shots are cut together.
Cutting: Changing from one image to another; a version of this linkage is sometimes referred to as montage (see below).
Crosscutting: Editing that alternates shots of two or more lines of action occurring in different places, usually simultaneously.
Shot reverse shot: One character shown looking at another character (often off-screen) and then the other character looking back at the first character.
Establishing shot: Distant framing that show spatial relations between important figures, objects, and setting. Establishes a certain location or area.
Montage: A specific kind of editing in which objects and figures are linked in a variety of creative or unexpected ways. Usually this kind of edition aims to generate certain effects or ideas.
Cinematography: How the shot is recorded photographically; choices made with lighting and movement when recording photographic images.
Camera Movement:
o Zoom Shot: a shot that goes from framing at a distance to framing up close (From a long shot to a close up, for example)
o Hand-held shot: A shot filmed from the shoulder of an cameraperson, usually creating the subjective perspective of an individual.
Focus: The quality/sharpness of the image; produced by the type of lens used and the distance between the camera and the object being filmed.
o Shallow focus: Only on plane of the image is in focus.
o Deep focus: Most things in the frame are in focus.
Key lighting: The central source of artificial light on a scene or subject. High-key scenes are entirely lit by this source; low-key scenes have very little artificial lighting.
Chiaroscuro lighting: The composition of light and dark in an image or picture.
Music: Specific songs played during a scene, or an instrumental arrangement, sometimes called a score.
Dialogue: Beyond the Quality of Acting, the scripted words the actors actually say to each other or to themselves.
Sound effects: Any number of uses of sound other than music or dialogue.
Special effects: A term used to describe a range of technological additions, such as computer graphics, to the film to manipulate or alter what has been filmed.
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