NAME __Elena Le_______________ and ______________________ DATE __________

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

Establishing shot, the camera

shows the location and the
scenery.

Camera Angle

Used both Field of view and High

angle shot, the frame starts of
small and expands to show a wider
picture, and is filmed from above
to provide a broad perspective.

Lighting

Back/Background lighting: the

What is the effect that it offers to the

viewer? How does it portray the
characters individually and in
relationship to other characters?
It allows viewers to be able to focus on more
than one person. Leaving the audience
wondering about whats beyond the frame.
Overall allowing the viewers to have a bigger
picture of the scenery.
The camera angle makes it seem like there is a
division from the superior to the minority. In
the picture the man in the suit is looking down
on the men with the guns, and hats as if he is
the superior. The camera angle elaborates on
that by filming from above, having a higher
angle.
The lighting captures and highlights the facial

lighting is from behind to cast

darker shadows and brings
attention to the facial expressions.

expression of the men, and casts multiple

shadows giving the illusion that the men are in a
dark room. The light also brings notice to the
man standing above he is casting a shadow onto
them making him look as if he is the higher
man.

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

Framing (shot)

Lighting

Angles

Camera

Describe how its used

1.

Long-shot is used when film first

begins. Allowing the viewers to
see the entire scene from a
distance.

2.

Mid-shot filming from the waist

up.

1. Back/background lighting
focusing on the person ahead
rather than the people on the
side.
1. Low-Angle focuses on the subject
that is superior.

2. Birds eye view is used when the

camera is focused on what is straight
ahead.

1. Panning is used to follow any slight

What is the effect that it offers to the

viewer? How does it portray the
characters individually and in
relationship to other characters?
Allows viewers to know the scenery and where
exactly the men are. Giving viewers an idea of
the time because of how dark it is. Allowing the
viewers to choose what to focus on and what to
not focus on.
The men that grabbed onto the kids were filmed
using a mid-shot. Only focusing on the people
who needed to be focused on. Bringing attention
to the children and the man who grabbed the
boy.
Back lighting is used to focus on the person
speaking during the scene. Allowing a better
view of facial expressions and body language.
The low angle shot is used to give an illusion that
the man in the glasses is the superior. It is
almost like taking the POV of the men below and
the kids to capture the film of the man in the suit
and glasses.
The angle is used when filming the boy talking to
the men. Allowing for a more direct focus of
both the men and the boy. Providing a more
straight forward shot of what needs to be
focused on.
This movement is used for a split second to

movement.

Movement

2. Proxemic Patterns is used to film

from a distance.

1. Diegetic is the sound that can be

heard by the characters in the
film.
Sound

1. Straight-cut is used to show the

conversation between two or more
people.

Editing

2. Blur is used to focus on something

further and eliminate or minimize
the focus of the closer characters of
objects.

shoot the boy moving slightly to the right when

the film began. Slight movement that the camera
follows brings focus to the necessary.
The beginning of the film when filming the boys
about to enter the meeting is filmed from a
distance allowing for a larger frame and a broad
perspective. It is also used towards the end when
the men decide to leave providing the same key
aspects.
Depending what your ears are focused more on
it will allow you to focus on different parts of the
scene. If you are only listening to the voices the
echo of the voice makes it seem like they are
speaking very loudly. If you listen to the
footsteps it makes the audience understand that
the boy is moving a fast pace on hard ground.
Straight cut is used to show the conversation
between the man in the glasses and the kids,
then from the kids to the men with the guns.
Allowing us to focus on the speaker. Giving the
perspective of all characters speaking.
Blur is used when the boy is talking to the man
and the camera is filming from the back. The
men closer to the camera is slightly blurred in
order to focus on the characters further from the
camera. The light boys and the man in the
glasses were more in focus.