MIL Lesson 5

• Extreme long shot


  Also called extreme wide shots such as a large crowd scene or a view of scenery
• Long shot


  A view of a setting or situation in a distance
• Medium long shot


  Shows a group of people in interaction with each other
• Full shot


  A view of a figure's full body or a constellation of a group
• Medium close shot


  Shows subject down to their chest/waist
• Close-up shot


  Full shot of a subject's face showing the finest nuance
• Extreme close-up shot


  A shot of a hand, eye, mouth or any object in detail
• Establishing shot


  Often used at the beginning of the scene to indicate the location or setting, it is usually a long shot from a neutral position
• Point of view shot


  Shows a scene from the perspective of a character
• Over the shoulder shot


  Used in dialogue shots, a frontal view of a dialogue partner from the perspective of the opposite character
• Reaction shot


  Short shot of the character's response
• Insert shot


  A detail shot which quickly gives visual info necessary to understand the meaning of a scene
• Reverse angle shot


  A shot from the opposite perspective
• Hand-held camera shot


  The camera is not mounted on a tripod and instead is heal by the camera person, resulting in less stable shots
• Aerial shot


  Overhead shot. Also called bird eye's shot. Long or extreme long shot of the ground from the air
• High-angle shot


  Show people or object from above, higher than eye level
• Low-angle shot


  Show people or object from below, lower than eye level
• Eye-level shot


  Straight on angle. Views a subject
• Pan shots


  The camera pans from left to right across the picture
• Tilt shot


  The camera tilts up or down around a vertical line
• Tracking shot


  The camera follows along next to or behind a moving object or a person
• Zoom


  The stationary camera approaches a subject by zooming in or out
• Convention


  Refers to a standard or norm that acts as a rule governing behavior. Are generally established and accepted ways of doing something
• Message


  The information sent to a receiver from a sender
• Audience


  The group of consumers for whom the media message was constructed as well as anyone else who is exposed to the message
• Producers


  People engaged in the process of creating and putting together media content to make a finished media products
• Symbolic codes


  Shows what is beneath the surface
• Written codes


  Use of language styles and technical layouts
• Technical codes


  All the ways in which equipment is used to tell the story in a media text
• Zacharias Janssen invented the very first microscope


  1950s
• Robert Hooke saw box-shaped structures that he called cell


  1665
• Anton Van Leeuwenhoek observed what he called “animalcules” while looking at pond water under the microscope


  1674
• Mathias Schleiden stated that plants are made up of cells


  1838
• Theodor Schwann concluded that animals are also made up of cells


  1839
• Rudolf Virchow stated that cells come from pre-existing cells through cell division


  1855