Week III: Language of the Screen

We have been asked to find definitions for the following film terms and record how we researched the information online. The person next to me found the answers on another student's blog (a Skye) and I looked at their screen, so in hindsight, I really didn't have to search through the information metropolis that is the internet. In our tute, pretty much everyone gradually came across the same method of finding another student's blog. But for "progress" sake, I'll show how that blog (and definitions) came to be found.

Step 1: Typed "WS Language of the Screen" onto the Google search engine and the 2nd last link was Skye's blog.

Step 2: Great Success!

To get a more definite and concise definition of these terms, I typed in "film and screen analysis ECU WS MS", since I studied film and screen analysis last semester, and clicked on the first link: Film Directing and Film Making Tips for The Independant Filmaker.

And the defintions are...

ECU: Extreme Close-up (focus on the eye)
WS: Wide Shot (subject is shown in relationship to their surroundings)
MS: Medium Shot (the body from the waist up)

Here are examples of each type of shot from the films of Darren Aronofsky:

ECU- Extreme Close-up


WS- Wide Shot


MS- Medium Shot