NAME _Diana Cestoni_____ and ______________________ DATE __________

Instructions:
1. Watch the clip in the BB folder.
2. Look at this photo from the movie To Kill a Mockingbird, and analyze it using your film technique terminology and
notes; make notes and respond to the prompts in the graphic organizer below. Be sure to note
3. Go back to the film clip and expand your analysis on the second graphic organizer to include the other techniques
with more detail.

Film Technique

Describe how its used

What is the effect that it offers to the viewer?

How does it portray the characters individually
and in relationship to other characters?

Framing

Medium shot, it shows half most part

of the subject but not entirely.

It gives the viewer a sense of intimidation from the

subjects listening to the man. You can see the group
of men in the scene. This individuals are listen
closely.

Camera Angle

Birds-eye angle, it shows the entire

scene from above. High angles is also
shown, it gives the subjects at the
bottom some type of vulnerability.

This allows the viewers to stablish the setting, they

can see everything, and the characters look
vulnerable.

Side lighting,

This effect allows the viewer to see or believe that

they are planning something evil, for they have guns
and listen closely to the person talking. It portrays a
sense of evil as if they were hiding something.

Lighting

Instructions:
1. Watch the film clip from To Kill a Mockingbird again. This time make notes on the film techniques used by the director
to enhance the meaning and impact of the scene.
2. On this chart, list and describe the film techniques in the clip from To Kill a Mockingbird. Many of the techniques will
be used more than once and in a variety of ways. Be sure to provide information on all that you see.
3. The quality of your response is what will earn you credit.
4. Allow the boxes to expand as you type your responses.

Film Technique

Describe how its used

Medium shot- it is used to show the subject
from waist up.

Framing (shot)

Lighting

Angles

Camera
Movement

Sound
Editing

Close-up- it allow the subject to take up at

least 80% of the screen.

Front lighting- it gives the characters a

sense of vulnerability, for it makes a
softening scene.
High angle- this occurs when the camera
look above the subject causing some type of
intimidation.
Low angle- this occurs when the camera
looks below the subject causing a sense of
superiority.
Tilt- this happens when two characters are
having a conversation, the camera looks
from side to side.
Zoom- the camera look closer or further to
focus on one part of the subject.

Diegetic- it is the most commonly used

technique this shows the where sound comes
from.
Point of view- this happens when the
characters have a conversation among
themselves.

Eye-line-match- this occurs when the scene

cuts from a person to an object back to the

What is the effect that it offers to the viewer? How

does it portray the characters individually and in
relationship to other characters?
This helps the viewer to see most of the scene and
whats surrounding it, the characters can be seen and
the viewer is allowed to choose what he wants to
focus on.
This frame allows the character to show its facial
expression, and the emotion going throughout the
scene, this helps the scene for it allows for viewers
not to miss any emotion from the characters in the
film.
When the child was talking to the men, he seemed
vulnerable for he was exposed to a crowd of people
holding guns, this allows the viewer to feel emotion.
While the men spoke, the camera looked below him,
this gives the viewer a sense of vulnerability for it
feels as if the character it intimidating them.
When the child ran up to the scene, the camera
looked above him, giving the child a sense of
vulnerability. The small child seem to be afraid of the
men, this allows viewers to feel exposed.
The camera showed the conversation between two
characters, this allows the crowd to feel part of the
scene.
The camera moved closer and further, allowing the
scene to only focus on one character, this is used to
make the viewer see any expression or emotion that
the character is portraying.
This technique is used to show the viewers what each
character is saying, and to show any dialogue
between two or more characters.
This allows the audience to see what the character
seen or feels. When the kids ran up to the crowd of
men, it felt as if the camera were the kids eyes and
you saw what they saw, allowing the viewer to be
part of the scene.
On the film point of view is shown when the camera
moves from one subject to another, this allows the

person.

viewer to see and comprehend the situation or

problem in the film.