Lights! Camera! Vocabulary!

Film class GO!

Here in the third week of Film Studies, we are still in the "What is This Thing Called Movies?" phase. The groundwork must be laid before we can watch entire movies (except Lost in La Mancha, we watched all of that, but it's a documentary about movies, and that's different.)

Tomorrow the students will have their second vocabulary quiz. See how many of these film terms you can define!

List #1:
medium
genre
actor
director
producer
cinematographer
production designer
screenwriter
editor
auteur

List #2:
shot
depth of field
long shot
close-up
zoom
pan
tilt
crane
framing
blocking

(Hint: zoom in, pan over, tilt up.)