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    This document discusses various film techniques and terminology used in visual effects, including composition, lighting, focus, color, symbols, motifs, camera shots, angles, editing, and sound. It provides examples of how different techniques are used in famous films to achieve specific artistic goals. Key techniques covered are composition, foregrounding/backgrounding, lighting styles, focus techniques, symbolic use of color, establishing shots, close-ups, cross-cutting, fades, zooms, panning, importance of soundtracks, and synchronous vs. non-synchronous sound.

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    FILM STUDY:

    TECHNIQUES AND
    TERMINOLOGY
    VISUAL EFFECTS

     Composition
     Line
     Lighting
     Focus
     Colour
     Symbol
     Motif
    Composition
    Backgrounding

    The Great Gatsby


    Foregrounding Focal Point
    LINE
    Road to Perdition

    Vertical

    Shakespeare
    Horizontal in Love
    &
    symmetry
    LINE

    Combination Se7en

    Leading The Shining


    Natural LIGHTING High key

    Legends of the Fall Harry Potter and the


    Deathly Hallows: Part 2

    Low key

    Maleficent
    Silhouette LIGHTING

    Cameo
    The Assassination of Jesse James

    Us
    FOCUS

    Soft focus

    Love Actually
    FOCUS
    Rack focus

    Casino Royale
    FOCUS

    Out of focus

    Braveheart
    Saturated COLOUR

    Desaturated

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    Children of Men
    SYMBOL

    Water as a symbol of transitioning,


    self-discovery, reflection etc.
    Moonlight
    MOTIF

    Atonement
    CAMERA SHOTS
    Establishing shot

    The Martian
    CAMERA SHOTS
    Long/wide shot

    The Joker
    CAMERA SHOTS
    Medium shot

    The Hunger Games


    CAMERA SHOTS
    Close-up shot

    Get Out

    The Lord of the Rings: The


    Fellowship of the Ring
    CAMERA SHOTS
    Point-of-view shot

    Men in Black
    CAMERA SHOTS
    Over-the-shoulder shot

    The Shape of Water


    CAMERA ANGLES
    High angle

    Black Panther
    CAMERA ANGLES
    Aerial/Bird’s-eye-view

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


    CAMERA ANGLES
    Low angle

    Gladiator
    CAMERA ANGLES
    Underhead/Worm’s-eye-view

    Pulp Fiction
    CAMERA ANGLES
    Eye-level

    The Shawshank Redemption


    CAMERA ANGLES
    Canted/Oblique/Dutch angle

    Twelve Monkeys
    EDITING & CAMERA
    TECHNIQUES/MOVEMENTS
    Montage

    Shaun of the Dead


    EDITING & CAMERA
    TECHNIQUES/MOVEMENTS

    Slow motion

    Fast motion
    Despicable Me 2

    Lucy
    EDITING & CAMERA
    TECHNIQUES/MOVEMENTS
    Cut

    Mad Max: Fury Road


    EDITING & CAMERA
    TECHNIQUES/MOVEMENTS
    Parallel/Cross cut

    The Godfather
    EDITING & CAMERA
    TECHNIQUES/MOVEMENTS
    Fade

    Black Swan
    EDITING & CAMERA
    TECHNIQUES/MOVEMENTS
    Dissolve/Superimposed shots

    Psycho
    EDITING & CAMERA
    TECHNIQUES/MOVEMENTS

    Ratatouille
    Zoom
    in

    Zoom out

    The Lion King


    EDITING & CAMERA
    TECHNIQUES/MOVEMENTS
    Panning

    Forrest Gump
    EDITING & CAMERA
    TECHNIQUES/MOVEMENTS
    Tracking

    Seabiscuit
    EDITING & CAMERA
    TECHNIQUES/MOVEMENTS
    Tilt/Crane

    Westworld
    EDITING & CAMERA
    TECHNIQUES/MOVEMENTS
    Hand-held/Mounted camera

    The Blair Witch Project


    SOUND
    Why soundtrack is important

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSDPa6yFSKg
    SOUND
    Synchronous sound

    Wall-E
    SOUND
    Non-synchronous sound

    Titanic
    SOUND
    Voice Over/Narration

    Stranger than Fiction

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