Thursday, 17 February 2011

Other key terms

* Audience positioning- Positioning the audience within the scene.
  • Point-of-view shot: Putting audience in their point of view (the sense of being there)
  • Over the-shoulder shot: Empathising with the character (feeling their feelings with out them actually being there)
* Protagonist- The one that leads the action, the main character in a certain scene, episode or series.

* Narrative arc- 




Is when a story is carried on over a number of episodes or even series.

For example- A woman gets pregnant and doesn't know who the father is and in several episode later or the next series you find out who the father is.

However as well as having narrative arcs in a t.v drama to create tension, closure in each episode is also demanded by the audience as it gives them a sense of satisfaction and makes them continue to watch the drama.

*Framing- Whats included in the frame, can shot importance and domination.

*Sequence- How shots go together, How they flow, also creates ellipsis

*Ellipsis- Time jumped
For example; doesn't show all the footsteps man takes

*Continuity- (Editing) Tricking the audience into thinking that all the shots are flowing and filmed one after the other, however they could have been filmed over the course of several days.

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