NAME Malik Rivera

DATE 3/14/16
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

This picture shows a long shot, it
allows all or most of the objects in
that scene and the background is
visible.
Field of view, because it shows an
adept picture foresight. Also uses
high angle, because it is looking
down on the subjects.
Soft Light, because it wraps
around the objects making it
easier to see.

What is the effect that it offers to the

viewer? How does it portray the
characters individually and in
relationship to other characters?
The long shot typically shows the entire object
or human figure and is usually intended to place
it in some relation to its surroundings and it
helps keep all the subjects in the scene visible.
High-angle shots can make the subject seem
vulnerable or powerless when applied with the
correct mood, setting, and effects and creates a
feeling of surrender to the movie.
The soft light contracts around an object and
helps it remove shadows that are unwanted by
the director. It also makes it look as if light is
coming from practical sources.

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

In the film it shows a long shot, it

allows all or most of the objects
in that scene and the background
is visible.
2.
The film uses a three shot which
displays 3 characters in a scene
together.
Soft Light, because it wraps around the
objects making it easier to see.

1. Field of view, because it shows an

adept picture foresight. Also uses
high angle, because it is looking
down on the subjects.
2. The film uses Birds Eye take shots of
scenes from above.
1. The film uses Pan to allow the
camera to move left to right or right
to left.
2. The film uses Proxemics Patterns to
attain shots from a far.
Film uses diegetic sound which comes
from the film itself and no other source.
1. L-cut is used in the film, which is also
known as split edit.

2. Slow cutting was used in the film, to

What is the effect that it offers to the

viewer? How does it portray the
characters individually and in
relationship to other characters?
The long shot typically shows the entire object or
human figure and is usually intended to place it
in some relation to its surroundings and it helps
keep all the subjects in the scene visible.
It shows the importance of all three characters
and how vital they each are personally to the
success of the film.
The soft light contracts around an object and
helps it remove shadows that are unwanted by
the director. It also makes it look as if light is
coming from practical sources.
High-angle shots can make the subject seem
vulnerable or powerless when applied with the
correct mood, setting, and effects and creates a
feeling of surrender to the movie.
Aerial view and aerial viewpoint are
synonymous with Birds Eye, because they both
originate from in the air.
Pan allows you to keep an object in focus as it
moves side to side and it also permits the
camera for easy movement if the object makes a
sudden turn.
During the film there was a long shot, where all
the objects in that specific scene were captured
perfectly.
Diegetic sounds can be on screen or off-screen
just depending on where the source of the sound
resides.
It transitions from one shot to another the film
and has the next cut part of the scenes picture
and sound synchronized with the previous
scene.
Slow cutting allows the editor to create a scene

present a shot for a long duration of

time, but it did not stay up for long,
because the audience would have
become bored.

that lingers for a while, for the audience to fully

understand the meaning and purpose of that
scene.