Exam Terminology

Print

Layout
  • House Style - A company's preferred manner of presentation and layout of written material
  • Symmetrical and Asymmetrical - 
  • Use of columns and boxes - To help organise information
  • Ratio of copy, photography and space - To help organise information 
  • Headline - A heading at the top of an article or page in a newspaper or magazine
  • Caption - A title or brief explanation accompanying an illustration, cartoon or poster
  • Strapline - A subsidiary heading or caption in a newspaper or magazine
  • Standfirst - A brief introduction summary typically after the headline about the newspaper and article 
Typography
  • Serif and Sans Serif fonts 
  • Specialist Typefaces - A particular design of type
  • Font size/Italics/Bold
Language

  • Formal and Informal register - Whether you use formal or informal language
  • Direct mode address - The way the creator addresses the audience
  • Puns, Colloquialisms, Slang - Making jokes with the audience and using slang language 
Image
  • Graphics - Pictures used 
  • Camerawork and Mise en scene in photography - The way that the cameras are used and what is in the photo
  • Depth of field - The distance between the nearest and the furthest objects giving you a focused image
  • Digital manipulation - Whether the resulting photo has any relation to the original image
  • Cropping - Editing the photo to a good size
Colour
  • Colour saturation - The intensity of colour in an image 
  • Choice of colour - The different colours used to fit the image
Audio/Visual

Camerawork
  • Establishing shots - A long shot indicating where the scene will take place
  • Low angle, High angle, Canted angle or Aerial shots - How low or high the angle is and how tilted the angle is, also how high it is
  • Elaborate camera movement such as tracks, steadicam or crane shots - Following the focus, a camera stabiliser and to move towards and away from  the point of focus 
  • Hand-Held cameras - To make it seem like from another persons point of view
  • Point of view shots - Shots form the characters point of view
  • Shallow focus and focus pulls - Focusing on different things to make the seem more effective rather than just one area
Editing
  • Shot/Reverse shot - Going between two points of focus 
  • Juxtaposition - Two things being seen or placed close together 
  • Non-continually editing - When shots are mismatched to disrupt the impression of time and space
  • Crosscutting - Cutting between places to show action at the same time 
  • Fast paced editing - Shots that are edited to pass quickly 
  • Less common transitions - Wipe, Fade, and Dissolve
  • Post production effects - Adding sound effects over the original things 
Soundtrack
  • Music - Any music used
  • Diegetic Sounds - Sounds in the video the characters can hear
  • Non - Diegetic sounds - Sounds in the video the characters can't hear
  • Sound Effects - Sounds deliberately put in the video
  • Sound Bridge - Sounds that lead from one scene into the next
  • Voiceover - The voice of a character used in the scene when they are not there
Mise en Scène
  • Lighting - The intensity of light in a scene
  • Location/Set - Where the video is
  • Costume/Make up - What the characters are wearing and any make up used
  • Props - Anything used in the video






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