Technical Language of Moving Image - Year 8 - Student Sheet
Lighting
There are 3 types of lighting:
Key light - can be artificial light or the sun. It creates shadows in the shot to make it look like the light is coming from a particular light source.
Back light - the subject is lit from behind and usually from above, it throws the subject into silhouette. Back light creates atmosphere and mystery.
Practical - any light source that is part of the scene, like a fire, lamp or a candle.
And lighting can be:
Hard lighting - like there is an intense light source, for example the sun, it gives hard-edged shadows.
Soft lighting - a soft light source, for example an overcast sky where the shadows have a soft edge.
Sound
Sound is used in moving images to create atmosphere, it is either diegetic or non-diegetic sound:
Diegetic sound: is any sound which comes from what is on the screen:
- Dialogue: the voices of characters
- Ambient sounds made by objects in the story e.g. weather, a crowd, birds singing
- Music, coming from either instruments played in the on-screen action or from devices such as record players, radios, tape players etc.
Non-diegetic sound: is sometimes called commentary sound, it is sound which has been added artificially; it is not part of what is on the screen. You cannot see it on the screen and it is not...
