Language of Film

I have research into title sequences to find out what the technical codes and conventions were for the crime genre that we have chosen. Before that I needed to research in depth about the different techniques and what the names where for them.

Basic Terms

Auteur:  another word (French) for the author (Director)

Diegesis: objects, events, spaces and the characters that inhabit them.

Editing: the joining together of clips

Flashback / Flashforward: a jump backwards or forwards in diegetic time.

Focus - Depth of field: shallow focus, deep fouces, racking focus.

Mise-en-scene: "put in the scene": the setting, the decor, the lighting, the costumes, the performance

Story / Plot: fabula and syuzhet, the events that are directly presented in the film, the order, duration, and setting of those events

Scene / Sequence: takes place in a single time and place

Shot: a single stream of images, uninterrupted by editing.

Mise-en-scene

Decor:  objects contained in and the setting of a scene

Three-Point Lighting: standard lighting scheme for classical narrative

High-Key lighting: produces images that are usually very bright and that feature few shadows on the principal subjects

Low-Key lighting: lighting scheme that employs very little fill light, creating strong contrasts between the brightest and darkest parts

Costume: clothes that characters wear

Deep Space: significant elements of an image are positioned both near to and distant from the camera

Frontality: elements face the camera square-on

Matte Shot: process shot in which two photographic images are combined into a single image

Offscreen Space: Space that exists in the diegesis but that is not visible in the frame.

Shallow Space: the image is staged with very little depth, opposite of deep space

Cinematography

Colour: used to create aesthetic patterns and to establish character or emotion

Contrast: the ratio of dark to light in an image

Deep Focus: significant elements occupy widely separated planes in the image

Shallow Focus: keeps only one plane in sharp focus

Depth of Field: The distance through which elements in an image are in sharp focus

Exposure: A camera lens has an aperture that controls how much light passes through the lens and onto the film

Racking Focus: changing the focus of a lens such that an element in one plane of the image goes in or out of focus

Telephoto Shot: An image shot with an extremely long lens is called a telephoto shot to compress the apparent depth of an image

Zoom Shot: change the focal length of the lens while the shot is in progress

Low Angle:  shooting at a lower position than the dominant element

High Angle:  shooting at a higher position than the dominant element

Canted Framing: frame is not level

Point of View Shot: camera placed approximately where the character's eyes would be.

Extreme Long Shot: object shown is very small (as used as establishing shots)

Long Shot: the object shown is small, taking up the hight of the screen

Medium Long Shot: is when a human is only shown from the knees up 

Medium Shots. the subject or actor and its setting occupy roughly equal areas in the frame (waist up)

Medium Close-up: the object shown is fairly large, (shoulders up)

Close-up: the object shown is relatively large, just the head is shown.

Extreme Close-up: the object shown is very large (mouth or eye)

Crane Shot: camera above the ground and moving through the air in any direction.

Handheld Camera, Steadycam: the camera operator's body as a camera support, either holding it by hand or using a gyroscopic stabiliser and a harness

Pan: camera body turning to the right or left

Tilt:  camera body swivelling upward or downward

Tracking Shot:  travels through space forward, backward, or laterally

Whip Pan: extremely fast movement of the camera from side to side to make image to blur

Editing


Cheat cut: cut which purports to show continuous time and space

Crosscutting: alternates shots of two or more lines of action occurring in different places

Cut-in, Cut Away: shift from a distant framing to a closer view

Dissolve: transition between two shots during which the first image gradually disappears while the second image gradually appears

Iris: round, moving mask that can close down to end a scene

Jump Cut: elliptical cut that appears to be an interruption of a single shot

Establishing Shot: usually involving a distant framing, that shows the spatial relations among the important figures, objects, and setting in a scene

Shot / Reverse Shot: Two or more shots edited together that alternate characters, typically in a conversation situation.

Wipe: transition between shots in which a line passes across the screen, eliminating the first shot as it goes and replacing it with the next one

Eye line Match: first shot shows a person off in one direction and the second shows a nearby space containing what he or she sees

Match on Action: cut which splices two different views of the same action together at the same moment in the movement

Continuity Editing: cutting to maintain continuous and clear narrative action

Sound

Sound Bridge: sound from the previous scene carries over briefly before the sound from the new scene begins.

Sonic Flashback: one diegetic time is heard over images from a later time

Diegetic Sound: sound presented as originating from a source within the film's world

Non-Diegetic Sound: sound not originating from a source within the film's world

Offscreen Sound: simultaneous sound from a source assumed to be in the space of the scene but outside what is visible onscreen

Post Synchronization sound: The process of adding sound to images after they have been shot and assembled

Voice Over: When a voice, often that of a character in the film, is heard while we see an image of a space and time in which that character is not actually speaking

This will help me to analyse other title sequences to find out what the technical codes and conventions are but also will help me in the production and post-production fazes of our title sequences as I can uses my research to develop and improvement to to opening but also add different techniques 

aspects as well.