Media Terms

3. Focus All characters or objects are important.
6. Emphasis on emotion of the character.
10. Positive, happy, joyful, lots of light.
11. An ordered setting, controlled and constructed.
13. Documentary style, realistic.
14. Focus Draws attention to a character or object.
15. Weak, Powerless.
16. Camera focuses on the action zooming towards or away from the action from a fixed point
17. Power, authority.
19. Camera shoots from a helicopter, giving a huge view of the setting.
21. Camera moves at the side of the action or character.
23. Shaky use of camera, could be documentary style.
26. Normality, ‘everydayness’.

1. Camera moves in the middle of the action.
2. Intimacy with character of objects.
4. Historical, realistic, the truth.
5. A realistic natural view of the world.
7. Can emphasise certain colours.
8. Equality between characters.
9. Normal view of a subject or person.
11. A natural view of the world.
12. Spying on the character or object.
14. Focus Creates a romantic view of character or setting.
18. Emphasis the expanse of the setting.
20. Dark, lots of shadows, mysterious and dangerous.
22. shot Camera moves hight above the action, giving an idea of where the characters are.
24. Establishing the setting.
25. Camera moves towards the action or character.