Difference between a sound mixer and a sound editor:

Sound Mixer – A sound mixer has the lead role of recording all sound during the production of a film to further be used in the editing process. The sound mixer also work on blending the sound during the production process.

Sound Editor – A sound editor is based on collecting the sounds necessary for the specific parts of a film or scene.

Synchronous sound – a sound that is matched with the actions and movement being used.

Asynchronous sound – a sound not matched with a visible source of the sound on screen

Diegetic vs. Non-Diegetic sound:

Diegetic – Diegetic sound is sound that is that the character or characters can hear.

The TV scene from Shaun Of The Dead is diegetic because the only sound in the scene is coming from tv and their dialogue, this is used because it allows the audience to understand what the crisis on the news is and that they are also hearing the same thing.

Non-Diegetic – Any sound that the audience can hear but the character cannot.

In the main shark scene from Jaws, music is playing for the lead up to the shark which the characters wouldn’t have hard at the time but the music adds to the suspense for the audience.

Cut – A cut is an abrupt, but usually trivial film transition from one sequence to another. a cut is an abrupt, but usually trivial film transition from one sequence to another.

Fade (out / in) – A fade in / out is used at the end or start of a scene to create a smooth rolling transition. (can also be used with music)

Dissolve – A dissolve is a transition from on shot to another.

Wipe – A wipe is a usually quick transition that swipes the shot off of the screen, revealing a new shot afterwards.

Flashback – A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.

Shot-Reverse-Shot -A shot reverse shot is a technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.

Cross Cutting – A cross- cut is when the camera cuts away from one action to another action

Eye-line match – An eye-line match is a film editing technique associated with the continuity editing system. It is based on the premise that an audience will want to see what the character on-screen is seeing.

Film	Rating	Memorable Scene	Film Element Focus
Whiplash	8.5/10	– Car crash scene – Practicing where the focus is on the blisters and him sweating.	Editing

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The main focus for this shot was to experiment with the shot and reverse shot techniques.

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Film	Rating (/10)	Memorable Scene	Film Element Focus
The Shining	7/ 10	1) The ballroom scene where everyone appears 2) The final chase scene	Cinematography

Insert Shot – In film and insert shot is a shot of part of a scene as filmed from a different angle and/or focal length from the master shot. Inserts cover action already covered in the master shot, but emphasize a different aspect of that action due to the different framing.

For this shoot, we had the idea of creating a small scene with one homeless person and one other person handing him money. We kept the set small with very little detail so that the main focus was the handing over of the money and the expression. Our main close up shots/big close shots were based around looking for the money, the counting of the money, the handing over of the money and the money being put away by the homeless character.

Depth Of Field – he distance between the nearest and the furthest objects giving a focused image.

Shallow Focus – One plane of the image is in focus while the rest is out of focus. Shallow focus is typically used to emphasize one part of the image over another.

Deep Focus – Deep focus is a photographic and cinematographic technique using a large depth of field. Depth of field is the front-to-back range of focus in an image; that is, how much of it appears sharp and clear. In deep focus, the foreground, middle-ground, and background are all in focus.

This shot from the film ‘Ex Machina’ is a shallow focus shot. The focus of the camera is the head and whatever is happening in the foreground, the background of the shot is blurred.

In this scene from the film ‘Unbroken’ the shot is a deep focus as all of the surrounding area is in view and clear, giving it depth. This also creates more story and detail in the scene.

1. Panning Movement – A panning movement is used for example to move from one side of a person to another in one smooth movement.
2. Crab Movement – The crab movement is when the subject is on the far left of the camera sight and stays still while the camera moves to the left so that the subject is now on the right.
3. Tracking Movement – A tracking movement starts away from the subject to then move forward where the subject is directly in the shot.
4. Zooming Movement – This is when the camera stays still as well as the subject and the camera then zooms into the subject for a more detailed shot.
5. Ped Movement – This starts at the top of a subject and pans directly down the subject finishing usually at the floor directly facing the subject, giving a wider understand of whats on the screen.
6. Tilt Movement – The tilt movement is having the camera pointing at the top of a subject and panning down at an angle to reach the lower parts.

Panoramic Movement:

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Shot from one of the Spider-Man films | This is a pan right to left movement which makes the viewer feel as if they are actually in the film and having to focus on the one point.

This is useful in films because it allows the reader to follow the subject but the camera does this in one smooth movement.

Zoom Out Movement:

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I am unsure of the film for these photos but this movement is a zoom out movement. In this scene the camera moves away from the subject possibly showing the surrounding area and emphasising the fact that the subject is by himself.

This is used in films to create the affect that the scene could be changing or something new is about to happen.

Tracking Movement:

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Again I am unsure of the film and the shots are very hard to see but in this scene the camera is tracking backwards in a hospital with nurses and other hospital workers moving between the rooms in front of the camera and an alarm going off throughout the scene, ultimately creating a very chaotic feeling.