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1.What are the four elements of Mise-en-Scene?
Lighting, setting, style of acting, props and costume

2. Define the term shot.
It is a continuous piece of uninterrupted footage.

3. Define the term edit.
Editing it taking shots and putting them together. The pace of the editing causing different emotions. Editing involves fades to white or black, dissolves and cuts.

4. Describes three ways that lighting that can be used to establish mood in a scene.
Lighting can be used to create different moods in scenes. Soft lighting can cause a sense of calm, lighting from behind a character can cause them to seem angelic and lighting from above the character can make them seem important and powerful.


5. What does the term "back lighting" refer to?
back lighting is lighting that shines on the back of the character.


6. In cinematography, what does the term framing refer to?
Framing is the boarder of the screen. The framing allows the director to control what the viewers can see.

7. Why is the rule of thirds and important framing technique?
The rule of thirds is a grid that shows the four points of the screen that your eyes automatically go to and helps the person filming to chose where to place things.

8. Explain 2 reasons that a cinematographer may choose to overexpose a particular shot.
Cinematographers may choose to overexpose a shot to create a sense of distortion if the character has just come out of a dark place, or if the character is in a hot place like a desert, to show the heat of the area.


9.What is an effect that can be achieved by underexposing a shot.
Underexposure can cause a sense of mystery towards a character or an object 

10. Explain the difference created by shooting a lone character from a low angle or a high angle?
Shooting a character from a low angle gives them a seem powerful while shooting them from a high angle makes them seem weak.

11. What does the term canted refer to in cinematography? 
It refers to the lilt of the camera.