CCEA GCSE Moving Image Arts: film language and the elements of moving image quiz quiz

The editing of shots together

Everything placed within the frame

The music added over a scene

The movement of the camera

A non-diegetic score

A jump cut

The staging of actors within the frame

A point-of-view shot

Isolate a face or detail and invite the audience to share an emotion

Show the whole setting at once

Make a character look powerful through a low angle

Speed up the pace of the editing

To blur the background

To make the character appear powerful, dominant or threatening

To create silence

To match the action across a cut

Keeps the whole frame sharp

Adds a musical score

Joins two scenes with sound

Keeps one subject sharp while blurring the rest, directing the eye

Open, safe and cheerful

Bright and ordinary

Flat and neutral

Tense, mysterious or menacing

Because it is unnatural, the opposite of how we usually see faces lit

Because it is the brightest kind of light

Because it flatters the face

Because it is always diegetic

Hard light is non-diegetic; soft light is diegetic

Hard light creates sharp shadows and looks harsh; soft light creates gentle shadows and flatters

Hard light is always low-key; soft light is always high-key

There is no difference

It creates calm and reflection

It has no effect on feeling

It creates energy, tension or chaos

It makes the lighting brighter

To make the audience notice every cut

To collide images for new meaning

To slow the film to a halt

To join shots so smoothly that the cuts go unnoticed

Alternates between two actions happening at the same time

Blurs the background of a shot

Adds a musical score

Lights a face from below

A character's footsteps

A car engine in the scene

The musical score added over the film

Dialogue between characters

Because it is always diegetic

Because a score speaks directly to the audience's emotions, often before anything happens

Because it replaces the need for images

Because it is the same in every film

It always means the film has ended

It removes all meaning from the scene

It can make a moment feel shocking, isolating or solemn

It speeds up the editing

Name the technique, then explain its effect on the audience

Retell what happens in the scene

List as many techniques as possible

Describe the plot of the whole film