Film Language

Film language can all help to create and understanding of characters and why the film is being shown the way it is. is split up into four sections:

• Camera
• Sound
• Editing
• Mise en scene

Camera:

• Frame - extreme close up all the way to extreme long shot.
• Angle - Levels, high and low and Birdseye and worms eye.
• Movement - Pan left and right, tilt up and down, zoom in and out, tracking shot on the move.

Sound:

• Music - feelings from it
• Contrapuntal - music/lyrics does not go with the genre
• Diegetic - sound the actors can hear, non diegetic are sounds edited
• Off screen/on screen - sound from frame and out of frame
• Voice-over
• Emotion
• Dialogue - (age,tone,level,accent)

Editing:

• Transition - Straight act, dissolve, wipes
• Order of Narrative - beginning, middle, end. (flashbacks, dreams and time)
• Pace - how quick you cut time

Mise en scene:

• Costume
• Lighting
• Actors
• Makeup
• Props
• Setting