| 1. Shot
| A. It focuses on detail / expression / reaction. Viewing a person it shows either head or head and shoulders.
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| 2. Scene
| B. Camera moves from side to side from a stationary position.
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| 3. Storyboard
| C. A single continuous shot made with a camera moving along the ground.
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| 4. Montage
| D. The image appears or disappears gradually. Often used as a division between scenes.
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| 5. Parallel action
| E. It shoots down at subject. Used to increase vulnerability, powerlessness, decrease size.
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| 6. Long Shot
| F. Drawn up when designing a production. Plans AV text and shows how each shot relates to sound track. (Think comic strip with directions – like a rough draft or outline for a film.)
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| 7. Medium or Mid Shot
| G. Narrative strategy that crosscuts between two or more separate actions to create the illusion that they are occurring simultaneously.
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| 8. Close Up
| H. It is framed from a particular character’s point of view. Audience sees what character sees.
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| 9. Tracking shot
| I. The ending of a shot. If it seems inconsistent with the next shot, it is called a jump.
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| 10. Reverse shot
| J. Musical soundtrack.
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| 11. Subjective Shot / POV
| K. Continuous, unedited piece of film of any length.
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| 12. Pan
| L. Overall view from a distance of whole scene. Often used as an establishing shot – to set a scene. Viewing a person it will show the whole body.
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| 13. Tilt
| M. One image fades in while another fades out so that for a few seconds, the two are superimposed.
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| 14. Tracking
| N. All sounds that are neither dialogue nor music.
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| 15. Low Angle Camera
| O. A series of shots that together form a complete episode or unit of the narrative.
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| 16. High Angle Camera
| P. Camera moves to follow a moving object or person.
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| 17. Cut
| Q. Consists of dialogue, sound effects and music. It should reveal something about the scene that visual images don’t.
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| 18. Fade in or out
| R. Spoken words laid over the other tracks in sound mix to comment upon the narrative or to narrate.
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| 19. Dissolve
| S. It shoots up at subject. Used to increase size, power, status of subject.
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| 20. Soundtrack
| T. It can give background information while still focusing on subject. Viewing a person it usually shows waist to head.
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| 21. Score
| U. A shot taken at a 180 degree angle from the preceding shot. It is commonly used during editing a dialogue, angle may vary from 120° to 180°.
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| 22. Sound effects
| V. Two shots edited together that alternate the characters, typically in a conversation situation.
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| 23. Voice-over
| W. Camera moves up or down from a stationary position.
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| 24. Shot-reverse-shot
| X. The editing together of a large number of shots with no intention of creating a continuous reality. It is often used to compress time, and montage shots are linked through a unified sound – either a voiceover or a piece of music.
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