The document discusses different camera techniques used in filmmaking including extreme close-ups, close-ups, medium shots, and long shots to zoom in on details or establish characters and settings. It also covers camera movements like pans, tilts, tracks, and zooms as well as cuts between scenes. Additional techniques covered are pace, performance, diegetic and non-diegetic sound, and mise-en-scene or the arrangement of scenery and props on screen.

1. Micro Elements
By Dawid Jurkowski

2. Extreme Close up
Extreme zoom into the subject showing details usually eyes. Used to show
emotions.

3. Close up
Zoom’s into the face showing details on the characters face. Also used to show
emotions within the face.

4. Medium shot
Zoom from head to waist to establish the character.

5. Long shot
Zoomed out to show the subject in the environment, to show his surrounding etc.

6. Extreme long shot
Extreme long shot is extremely zoomed out usually used to show the
plot/setting/landscape of the film.

7. Track
Used to follow the character/subject within a certain scene.

8. Pan
A horizontal camera movement in which the camera moves left and right about a
central axis; focusing on the subject or action.

9. Tilt
When the camera moves up and down, usually used to show the landscape from
bottom to the top etc.

10. Zoom
When the camera closes up (zoom’s) into an subject.

11. Cut
Cut is used to separate two scenes from each other within a film. Eg finish one
scene/shot and go onto another.

12. Pace
The speed of the clips and transitions in a movie. The speed of everything within
the movie.

13. Performance
Performance is the acting on the scene. It can be also used to present a play,
concert etc.

14. Diegetic
Sound which are visible on the screen such as voices of characters and sounds made by objects.

15. Non Diegetic
Sound that is not visible on the screen such as an narrator, soundtrack and
special effects (sound effects)

16. Mise-en-Scene
How the scenery is set out and everything within the stage.