Wize Core English Textbook > Media Studies
Media Techniques
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Air Brushing
"In photography, the term "airbrushing" refers to any retouching done to a photo that changes the reality of the photo. It may include removing people or objects, erasing acne or scars, altering body shapes, or any other form of manipulation of the original photograph."1
1https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/what-is-airbrushing-in-photography-2688528
Air bushed? (I think not)
Air brushed? (You better believe it!)
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Wide Angle
A shot with a greater horizontal plane of action and greater depth of field is known as a wide-angle shot. (See more examples here)
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Panning Shots
A "panning shot" takes its name from "panorama," and typically it refers to a shot where the camera is static and it moves from left to right (or right to left) to show a horizontal plane. Sometimes "panning" refers to vertical planes as well in filming, but typically refers to horizontal only.
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Close-Up
A close up shot allows us as the audience or viewer to have access to a character's emotional reality. A "close up" is designed to put us in the eye of the camera, intimately close to the character so that we can see the subtleties of their facial expressions and their emotional reality.
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Cutting
Cutting scenes together happens in post-production, and it is the moment when different scenes are put together. When we hear directors yell "cut!" at the end of a film shoot, they are indicating that that scene is one complete unit that will then be edited together with other scenes to create the entire video piece, be it a TV show, short film, or full motion picture.
There are different ways of cutting scenes together...
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Sounds
Another videographic or multimedia technique is around sound. There are different types of sound editing that go into creating animations, videos, and other media texts that include audio files.
Sounds include:
- A soundscape: which is like a landscape; it is the immersive sound experience of an expected place. So in a film where the scene takes place in a crowd, the soundscape would include crowd sounds like white noise in the back ground.
- A soundtrack: which is the musical accompaniment to the visual scenes. Sometimes the soundtrack includes songs with words, in which case the lyrics also provide commentary on the scene itself; at other times, the soundtrack is instrumental only and provides the emotional register for the scene.
- Sound effects: which are the methods that sound editors employ in order to make the sounds we expect to hear when we see certain scenes on film.