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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Visual & Sound Techniques

Language of Film Dictionary:


Body Language: Body language is when people communicate how they are feeling
through facial expressions or movements of their body.
These movements can give a signal of how we or they are feeling.


Costume: To represent a personality of a character


Hairstyle: A hairstyle refers to styling of hair.


Make-Up: Make-Up is used on faces in order to make expressions visible to the
audience from moderate distances


Colour: Colour is used to set the tone in a scene. Red is used to represent
power and anger, Pink signifies innocence and beauty, yellow represents joy,
Blue symbolizes passivity and calmness. 


Lightning: It is also used to set a mood for the scene, it is also used to make
something/object stand out.


Props: It is used as items to help enhance or make the scene more realistic.


Setting: It is the time and place, or where the film was taken or its surroundings. 


Dialogue: Used to plot or reveal something new about a character.


Sound Effects: A sound effect is a sound recorded and presented to make  a specific
storytelling or creative point without the use of dialogue or music. 


Music: Also used to set a mood or tell what’s happening.


Silence: Silence has a role in developing the emotional tone of a film, or can get
the audience guessing what’s happening next.


Symbols: Symbols are things that pop up a few times throughout a film that
represents something else entirely and help describe an idea. 


Special FX: Special FX are illusions or visual tricks used in the theater, or film,
television, to simulate the imaginations of events in a story or virtual world. 


What am I learning?
I am learning about the languages of film and how it is used in a film,
and its importance in a film.


How does this work show my learning?
This show that I have researched about the film languages and I have
typed the definitions and I understand what they mean.


What am I wondering as a result of this learning?
I’m wondering how these really can make a good film and if there is more.

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