Mise-en-scene - arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted.
Wide Shot - a video or film recording made with the camera positioned to observe the most action in the performance.
Camera Movement - the way in which the camera moves during a shot or scene.
Pan - a shot where the camera, mounted on a tripod or dolly, is moved in a horizontal arc from left to right, or right to left. The term derives from the world 'panorama', suggesting the wide visual field that the pan can reveal.
Track - or a tracking shot - a camera shot where the camera is mounted on a dolly and records whilst moving along a track similar to a miniature railway track, often parallel to a moving subject.
Tilt - a tilt is a vertical camera movement in which the camera points up or down from a stationary location. For example, if you mount a camera on your shoulder and nod it up and down, you are tilting the camera.
Dolly - a wheeled camera platform. A 'dolly shot' is a camera shot where the camera is moved forward or back using this platform.
Dolly crane - counterweighted long metal arms with a flexible camera mounting that can raise or lower a camera to show high shots of the action.
Stedicam handheld - a camera mounting that straps the camera to the body of the operator and incorporates a device that keeps the image steady.
Zoom/reverse zoom - a shot where the camera zooms in on the subjects or zooms out away from it
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