NAME _______________________ and ______________________ DATE __________

Instructions:
1. Watch the clip in the BB folder.
2. Look at this photo from the movie To Kill a Mockingbird, and analyze it using your film technique
terminology and notes; make notes and respond to the prompts in the graphic organizer below. Be sure to
note
3. Go back to the film clip and expand your analysis on the second graphic organizer to include the other
techniques with more detail.

Film Technique

Framing
Camera Angle

Lighting

Describe how its used

Eye level is shown from how the
man is looking at the other
Dutch angle since the picture for
this part of the scene is partly
slanted.
High key lighting is shown in the
picture because there is a uniform
brightness; faded with light.

What is the effect that it offers to the

viewer? How does it portray the
characters individually and in
relationship to other characters?
Viewers will feel apart because they how the
man is looking at the other
This lets the character know that the characters
are showing tension and uncertainty in the clip.
The scene to the viewers has a natural lighting
which gives the scene emotion to the viewers.

Instructions:
1. Watch the film clip from To Kill a Mockingbird again. This time make notes on the film techniques used by
the director to enhance the meaning and impact of the scene.
2. On this chart, list and describe the film techniques in the clip from To Kill a Mockingbird. Many of the
techniques will be used more than once and in a variety of ways. Be sure to provide information on all that
you see.
3. The quality of your response is what will earn you credit.
4. Allow the boxes to expand as you type your responses.

Film
Technique

Describe how its used

1.

Framing (shot)

Lighting

Angles

Camera
Movement

Sound

Editing

A medium shot was shown from

the man when he was talking to
the kids after he stood up, so he
was shot from the head to right
above the waist.
2.
a two-shot/three-shot was show
in the scene in the very beginning
when the three children were
talking
Front lighting is throughout the scene
which is lighting from the front
1. Low-angle shot was used when the
man stood up in the beginning which
means the camera angle was shot up
at the character.
2. An eye level shot was during the
scene right after they pushed the boy
up onto the stairs and switched to the
man while the boy was talking.
1. Mobile camera is shown when the
camera starts to get closer when the
men begins to stand up.
2. Panning was used to establish the
scene of the clip.
A diegetic sound was given in the clip
because the characters voice was visible
on the screen, or is implied to be present
in the action.
1. Shot-reverse-shot is shown in the
clip by from one person to the other
while they were having a
conversation after they caught the
kids.
2.

What is the effect that it offers to the

viewer? How does it portray the
characters individually and in
relationship to other characters?
Viewers will only see the character from the
waist up. So when the man was talking to the
children the viewers seen him as powerful.

The viewer will see equality or inequality given

from the characters.

It gave the scene a more softening effect more of

an angeless look.
This angle made the man look powerful. The
audience will feel vulnerable and small looking
up at the character.
By giving and eye level shot during this part of
the clip the viewer will feel like they are a part of
the scene with the other character.
Shows the viewer that something tense is going
to happen in the clip; have a demanding reaction
of the character.
Gave the viewer a panoramic view of a set or
setting
The viewer will hear the characters voice and see
it as powerful since they are the only ones
talking.
By the crosscut editing it allows the viewer to see
the 2 characters emotion going on while have
the conversation with each other.