The document provides an overview of key filmmaking terms from A to Z, including concepts like auteur theory, genres, narrative, stereotypes, and camera techniques. It then assigns a summer assignment for students to research various camera angles, movements, lighting techniques, and aspects of mise-en-scene to develop their understanding of visual storytelling techniques in film. Students are instructed to create a word document defining terms and including example photographs for different shots. Key areas of research include close-ups, establishing shots, point-of-view shots, angles, zooms, pans, lighting setups, locations, props, costumes, and blocking.

1. Summer Assignment
A Auteur Suggests that the director is the most important visionary. All directors implement
their own style and feel to a piece of film.
B Big 6 The 6 companies that dominate Hollywood cinema. Disney, warner bros, fox,
universal, paramount and sony.
C Camerawork The camera is the way the audience perceive the film and so the way the camera is
used is very important.
D Demographics Statistics about the audience. These are acquired so that the producers can target
their audiences
E Editing The editing of the camera work changes the perception for the audience further.
F French New
Wave
Young French film makers who used different ways of expressing themselves form
Hollywood
G Genre The type of a film based on content and atmosphere.
H Hypodermic
Needle
The belief that audiences are passive to the information that the media give
I Intertextuality When a text references another for added meaning
J Jenkins A communications theorist who researches and writes on media and how its
changing.
K Key concept media language: How the writer or director communicates to a targeted audience.
Institution: the study of who makes the media.
Audience: the study of the viewer or reader and why they watch and read the
media.
Representation: the study of how the media represents the world.
L Laura Mulvey A feminist who produced work on how the audience view females from the male’s
perspective
M Mise-en-scene French for ‘within the scene’. Everything on screen is chosen for a reason for the
audience.
N Narrative The way in which the story is told.
O OFCOM The organization responsible for regulation all aspects of the media in the uk,
though guide lines and take in complaints from the public.
P Propp A Russian film critic who said that all character serves archetypal roles within a
story.
Q Queer Theory The theory that sexuality has been made thought the media rather than it being of
nature. Is states that the media has represented homosexuality as the norm.
R Reception
Theory
The way that a person views a piece of media based on background and ethnicity
S Stereotypes Exaggerated representations of people and ethnicities.
T Todorov The theorist that came up with the idea that all narratives have several
developments.
U Uses and
Gratification
The study of why audiences interact with the media that that do. Audiences use the
media.
V Viral When a piece of media is sent from person to person.
W Widescreen The term used to describe a aspect Raito greater then 1.37:1

2. Summer Assignment
Watch and make notes on the introductory video providing an A- Z guide of some of the key terms
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BocPq36Z4M
Below there are descriptions of various camerawork techniques
1. Create a word document using the Internet find out the names of the camerawork techniques above and
accompany this with a photograph.
2. Find out the definition of the following focus and camera movements terms, and add them to your
document.
a. Soft focus
b. Shallow focus
c. Deep focus
d. Pull Focus
e. Pan
f. Tilt
g. Crane
h. Dolly
i. Track
j. Steadicam
k. Handheld
l. Whip pan
m. Zoom
n. Static
3. Find out the definition of the following mise-en-scene terms focus, and add them to your document.
a. Locations and Setting
b. Props
c. Costume
d. Hair and make-up
e. Facial expression and body language
f. Blocking
g. Low key lighting
h. High key lighting
X X-Rated The untraded marked rating given to a film with violence, sexual scenes and bad
language
Y Young and
Rubicum
This identifies who consumes what type for media based on the definition for 7
types of people.
Z Zolly Zooming dolly shot. When the camera moves to or away when zooming the
opposite way.
Description
A specific facial featurefillstheframe to ensure the audience focuses on that facial featureand the characters emotion/reaction.
Head and shoulders,usually used to draw focus to a specific character or object.
Shows torso and some background.
Shows entire body of a character,shows background/location.
Tells the audiencewhere we are; establishes a location.
A camera shot taken from the position of the subjects
Two characters fill theframe.
This shot looks over an actor’s shoulder,lookingatanother actor to show that they are havinga conversation.
The audience is atthe same height/level as the actors/characters.
The camera is higher than most of the actors,and looks down on a character/actor.
The camera is lower than most of the actors,and looks up on a character/actor.
A shot which is tilted to one side.
The view from high above, as if you were lookingfrom the perspective of a bird.
As if the camera was on the ground and you were lookingthrough the eyes of an insect/worm from the ground.

3. Summer Assignment
You can organise your research into a table like this:
Technique Definition Photograph
Extreme close up