NAME __Lily Dlhosh_____________________ and ______________________ DATE

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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

Describe how its used

Framing

The mid shot is used to show

characters from the waist up.

Camera Angle

The high angle is used to look

down upon the characters.

Lighting

The low key lighting is casting

shadows and used for effect in this
scene.

What is the effect that it offers to the

viewer? How does it portray the
characters individually and in
relationship to other characters?
Can see faces but can also see the interaction
with other characters, the man being taller and
looking down upon the other characters
Makes the other characters look smaller than
the guy who is up higher, showing position
within the characters
This shows the intensity of the scene and the
lighting adds a little mystery to it.

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.

The mid shot shows the

characters waist up.

Framing (shot)
2.

Lighting

Angles

Camera
Movement

Sound

Editing

The two-shot shows the two kids

up on stage.
The front lighting is lighting from the
front that makes the scene look like
normal.
1. The low angle show what the kids
and the men on the ground are
seeing when they look up at the man
on the stage.
2. The eye-level angle shows the
character as what you would see if
you were talking to them to connect
the viewer to the character.
1. The camera zooms up on the man
standing on the stage at the
beginning to bring focus to him.
2. The mobile camera follows the kids
at the beginning to show the kids
path.
The diegetic sounds are showing what
the characters say so you know what is
going on in the scene.
1. Shot reverse shot is showing what the
characters are looking at going back
to forth to show the intense
conversation.
2. Point-of-view is showing what the
characters are seeing so the viewer
feels ore connected to the scene.

What is the effect that it offers to the

viewer? How does it portray the
characters individually and in
relationship to other characters?
Shows the characters at waist high so you can
see the faces clearly but also the interactions
with the kids and adults in the scene.
Shows that the two kids stick together and puts
the attention on them instead of the other kid.
Clearly shows the faces of the characters and
makes the viewer feel like they are in the
building with the other characters.
Makes the older man on the stage seem more
powerful and in charge than the other characters
who look small by looking up.
Shows what the characters are looking at and
makes the viewer feel like they are there talking
to the kids or the men in the audience when they
start taking.
At the beginning, the camera zooms up on the
man on the stage to focus the attention on him.
The camera moves through the crowd at the
beginning to show you the scene then follows the
kids to the front of the building you the viewer
can see what the kids are running to.
The viewer can clearly see the characters talking
and understand what the other characters are
listening to.
Shows what the kids see when they look up at
the man on the stage and what the man sees
when he looks back down on the children and
audience.
The camera shows point-of-view when the
camera goes through the audience and up the
stage or how they camera looks up at the man to
show how much smaller the kids are and what
they see.