Performance
- Style e.g. comedic
- Expression and body movement
- Position and proxemics (the space between others and themselves)
Cinematography
- Colour/film stock
- Saturation
- German expressionism
Lighting –
- High key and low key (with high contrast)
- High contrast and low contrast
- Vignette
Camera –
- High angle and low angle
- Over the shoulder shot (dramatic irony because the audience knows something that a character doesn’t)
- Point of view
- Focus/lens
Mise en scene
Everything you can see such as props, costume design and set design.
Sound
- Diegetic (noises that have not been edited in, can be from off or on screen) and non-diegetic (not visible on screen/edited in)
- Silence
- Music
- Atmosphere and punctuation
- Sonic perspective
- Environmental sound (background sound like the wind or office noises)
- Contrapuntal sound (Usually the sound we hear in a film directly accompanies what we see on the screen; it is appropriate sound, it is the sound we expect.- Film Technology)
- Foley (sound that is diegetic but added in post production)
Editing
- Pace
- Rhythm
- Continuity editing – parallel action, actin/reaction
- Montage
- Action reaction shot
- 180 degrees rule
- Match cut (a match cut is a cut from one shot to another where the two shots are matched by the action or subject and subject matter. – Wikipedia)