Terminology

Audio-visual terminology

Camera work:

Establishing shot - usually the first shot of the scene. This is used to establish the location and environment. It can also establish mood and give the audience visual clues regarding the time and general situation. 

Low angle, high angle, canted angle, aerial shots -

 

Elaborate camera movement such as:

• Tracks - A tracking shot is any shot where the camera moves alongside the object it is recording.
• Steadicam - Steadicam is a brand of camera stabiliser mounts for motion picture cameras.
• Crane shot - a crane shot is a shot taken by a camera on a crane or jib.

Hand-held camera - Where the camera is held in the operators hand during the film making.

Point of view shots - Refers to the position the camera is in when viewing a scene.

Shallow focus - Shallow focus is a photographic and cinematographic technique incorporating a small depth of field.

Focus pulls - Usually this means adjusting the focus from one subject to another. 

Editing

• Short/reverse shot -  is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character.

• Juxtaposition - the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

• Non-continuity editing - When shots are mismatched to disrupt the impression of time and space.

• Crosscutting - Used to establish action occurring at the same time, and usually in the same place. 

• Fast-paced editing - Refers to several consecutive shots of a brief duration.

Less common transitions:

• Dissolve - a gradual transition from one image to another.
• Wipe - where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
• Fade - A transition to and from a black image.

• Post production effects - This includes tasks such as the editing of raw footage to cut scenes, insert transition effects, working with voice and sound actors, and dubbing, to name a few of the many pre-production tasks

Soundtrack

• Music - recorded music accompanying and synchronised to the images of a motion picture.

• Diegetic/non-diegetic sound - Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film.

• Sound effects - a sound other than speech or music made artificially for use in a play, film, or other broadcast. 

• Sound bridge - a type of sound editing that occurs when sound carries over a visual transition in a film

• Voiceover - a peace of narrative in a film or broadcast, not accompanied by an image of the speaker.