Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Media Terminology Definitions

The term ‘Match on Action’ means that” when something is happening in a scene and then it cuts to another scene, it suggests that the action is still going” on whilst we are viewing this ‘other’ scene.

Shot-Reverse-Shot is when “one character is placed so that they look at another character and the other character is placed so that they look back at the original character. Since they look in opposite directions we presume that they are looking at each other.”


180 degree rule means that any characters in a scene “should always have the same left to right relationship. If the rule is broken then it disorients the audience, if the person who was facing left then right in the next scene it confuses us.”   

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