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visual Techniques
aCTIvITy 1.4
Learning Targets
• Apply knowledge of new vocabulary to analyze visual text collaboratively.
• CreateavisualforAWrinkleinTimeusingavarietyofvisualtechniquesforeffect.
As part of the requirements for Embedded Assessment 1, you will be creating an illustrated narrative. Understanding how filmmakers create visuals for films can help you transform written imagery and detail into illustrations or film images.
1. The following information will increase your understanding of visual techniques.
LearNING STraTeGIeS:
Close Reading, Rereading, Drafting, Discussion Groups, Sharing and Responding
aCademIC voCabULary
A technique is a way of
carrying out a particular
task, so visual techniques
are ways images can be
used to convey narration.
VISUAL TECHNIQUES
Framing: Borders of the image. A single shot can be thought of as a frame for the picture.
Shot: A single piece of film, uninterrupted by cuts.
Long shot (LS): A shot from some distance (also called a full shot). A long shot of a person shows the full body. It may suggest the isolation or vulnerability of the character.
Medium shot (MS): The most common shot. The camera seems to be a medium distance from the object being filmed. A medium shot shows a person from the waist up.
Close-up shot (CU): The image takes up at least 80 percent of the frame.
Extreme close-up shot (ECU): The image being shot is a part of a whole, such as an eye or a hand.
Camera Angles
Eye level: A shot taken from a normal height (character’s eye level). Most shots
are eye level because it is the most natural angle.
High angle: The camera is above the subject. This angle usually has the effect of making the subject look smaller than normal, giving him or her the appearance of being weak, powerless, or trapped.
Low angle: The camera shoots the subject from below. This angle usually has the effect of making the subject look larger than normal, and therefore strong, powerful, or threatening.
Camera Point of View
Subjective: A shot taken from a character’s point of view, as though the camera
lens is the character’s eyes.
Objective: A shot from a neutral point of view, as though the camera lens is an outside, objective witness to the events as they unfold.
Lighting
High key: A scene flooded with light, creating a bright and open mood.
Low key: A scene flooded with shadows and darkness, creating suspense or suspicion.
Neutral: Neither high key nor low key—even lighting in the shot.
my Notes
Literary Terms
Mood is the overall emotion, which is created
by the author’s language
and tone and the subject matter.
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