Transitions

A film transition is a technique where there is a change from one scene to another using a certain type of technique like cut, dissolve, fade and wipe. Alot of films will include selective transitions, usually to change a tone or a mood.

Creating Pace

When creating pace, there is usually a slow build up to a big event, which can maybe seen in a running scene or even a chase scene. Pace is usually created with music or slow camera movement where the camera gets closer to either the character or object, this could either be a jolty movement or just a plain smooth movement.

180° Rule

A basic guideline in film making is the 180° rule where two characters, or objects, what are in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. So If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, this is called crossing the line and the new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.

Storytelling

Some films use a storytelling technique, where the would me some sort of narration telling the story of the film whilst the events are taking place. A good example of this is in the film bedtime stories as Adam Sandlers is narrating a story whislt he is actually acting out his story in a different scene.

In-Camera Editing

If you don't have any editing software and you can only edit from the camera that you are using to film on you have to either film each shot you need in a sequential order that that the final scene makes scene when you play the footage back. Another technique is what film editors call amateurish is to film an entire scene in one whole shot. Film that look like they have used some sort of In Camera Editing are films such as Cloverfield and District 9, but these films also seem to have used many of the other researched techniques.

Multiple points of view

For multiple points of view, this is were the characters/actors are showing each side of view. This is where one character will show what he/she is seeing and then it will change to the secondary character and do the same.

Manipulation of Diegetic Time and Space

Manipulation of Diegetic Time and Space is when a film uses effects an age or time change. Either a person to an object or even an envrionment is shown either getting younger or getting older. There are many films which uses this technique but a famous film is the time machine as the man is in the time machine and the environment changes as he is travelling through time.

Shot Variation

Shot Variation is when a single stream of images are uninterrupted by editing where the shot can use a static or a mobile framing, a standard or a non-standard frame rate, but it must be a continuous motion. The shot is one of the basic units of cinema yet has always been subject to manipulation, for example stop-motion cinematography or superimposition. In contemporary cinema, with the use of computer graphics and sequences built-up from a series of still frames for a big example "The Matrix" , where the boundaries of the shot are increasingly being challenged.

Following The Action

The technique in films "Following the Action" is when there are movement or an action scene, the camera would follow the event that is taking place. In the attached clip there is an example of the term following the action which is in the film Mr & Mrs Smith which has a big action scene. In this clip it shows that the camera rotates around the gun battle to show more of the action instead of staying at one angle.