Glossary

THE TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF MEDIA LANGUAGE

Code

Convention

Encode

Decode

Mise-en-scene

    Things that can connect the viewer with the producer:

    - Set Design

    - Costumes

    - Props

    - Staging and Composition

    - Colour

    - Acting (facial expressions, body language, vocal qualities)

Camera

    Movement

    - Track (camera follows the subject as if it were someone walking with them)

    - Pan (camera stays still but follows the subject's movements in parallel horizontally)

    - Crane (camera moves around the subject such as being moved on a crane)

    - Dolly (cameraman walks towards the subject and the field depth will change around the subject

through manual zoom)

    - Zoom (camera lens zooms in, cutting part of the frame and keeping the field depth the same)

    - Tilt (camera goes goes to the subject vertically)

    Shots & Angles

Sound

- Diegetic Sound (can be heard by everyone including characters, such as dialogue and physical objects on screen)

- Non-Diegetic Sound (can only be heard by audience, such as ambient sounds, narration, music, sound effects, etc.)

Editing

- Cut (transition from one shot into another)

- Cross Cutting (gives the appearance that two storylines are happening) 

- Dissolve (beginning of one shot gradually overlaps the end of another)

- Reverse Shot (two characters in the same scene who are filmed separately using different camera angles)

- Iris 

- Flashback

- Fade