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| Deep Focus | use of the camera lens and lighting so that both close and distant planes are shown in sharp focus. |
| Dissolve | A transition in which one image fades in while another fades out and the images are briefly juxtaposed. |
| Crane Shot | A shot accomplished by having the camera above the groudn and moving throught the air in any direction. |
| Fade | A transition in which an image goes from a normal image to a black or white screen to disappear (fade out) or vice versa (fade in). |
| Depth of Field | The area between the closest and fathest panes captured by the camera in which everything appears in sharp focus. |
| Long Shot | Framing in which the scale of the object shown is not distant but still relatively close. |
| Head Room | The amount of space between a subject and the top of the screen. |
| High Camera Angle | a subject is filmed from a camera placed above it. |
| Medium Shot | A shot that shows human figures from the waist up. |
| Low Camera Angle | A subject is filmed from a camera placed below it. |
| Low-Key Lighting | Principal lighting which produces a somber, shadowy, mysterious effect. |
| Point of View | Angle from which the story is told, or a shot taken witht he camera placed where the character's eyes whould be to show what the character would actually see. |
| Scene | A sweries of shots taken in the same location and during the same brief period of time, but generally from several different angles and camera placements. |
| Panning | A camera movement witht he camera body swiveling right or left on a stationary base to produce a horizontal scan. |
| Set | The sound stage or the location of shooting. |
| Shot | Continuous, uninterrupted exposure of a camera to an object or person. |
| Storyboard | A visual plan for film, video, or animation made up of a series of pictures organized in a sequence together with a written script. |
| Tilting | A camera movement with the camera body moving up or down on a stationary base to produce a vertical scan. |
| Tracking | A camera movement with the camera body and base moving on the ground in any direction; also called dollying, or trucking. |
| Wide Angle | The use of a wide angle lens to create a shot that captures a wide range of elements or objects on a single plane while at the same time exaggerating the distance between foreground and background planes. |
