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Tools

Toys

Narrative

• Universal
• Applied Phlebotinum
• Characterization
• Characters
• Characters As Device
• Dialogue
• Motifs
• Narrative Devices
• Paratext
• Plots
• Settings
• Spectacle

Genre

• Action Adventure
• Comedy
• Commercials
• Crime And Punishment
• Drama
• Horror
• Love
• News
• Professional Wrestling
• Speculative Fiction
• Sports Story
• War

Media

• Animation (Western)
• Anime
• Comic Book
• Fan Fics
• Film
• Game
• Literature
• Music And Sound Effects
• New Media
• Print Media
• Radio
• Sequential Art
• Tabletop Games
• Television
• Theater
• Videogame
• Webcomics

Topical Tropes

• Betrayal
• Censorship
• Combat
• Death
• Family
• Fate And Prophecy
• Food
• Holiday
• Memory
• Money
• Morality
• Politics
• Religion
• School

Other Categories

• British Telly
• The Contributors
• Creator Speak
• Creators
• Derivative Works
• Did Not Do The Research
• Language
• Laws And Formulas
• Show Business
• Split Personality
• Stock Room
• Trope
• Truth And Lies
• Truth In Television
• Weirdness Isolation

This is an assortment of things the camera can do in visual media.

Camera Tricks

• Age Cut
• Alone In A Crowd
• Answer Cut
• The Apple Falls Far
• Astronomic Zoom
• Between My Legs
• Binocular Shot
• Boom Up And Over
• Bullet Time
• Camera Abuse
• Camera Chase
• Chroma Key
• Closeup On Head
• Cukoloris
• Cut Apart
• Discretion Shot
• Don't Look At The Camera
• Double Vision
• Driving A Desk
• Eyedscreen
• Face Framed In Shadow
• False Camera Effects
• First Person Camera
• Fish Eye Lens
• Forced Perspective
• Framed Subject
• Gaussian Girl
• Grasp The Sun
• Halfempty Two Shot
• Hollywood Darkness
• Holy Backlight
• In Camera Effects
• Impairment Shot
• An Insert
  • Hand Of Death
  • Insert Cameo
• Jeannie Cut
• Lens Flare
• Match Cut
• Matte Shot
• Medium Two Shot
• Mood Lighting
  • Bad Blue Lighting
• Multi Take Cut
• Nostril Shot
• Object Tracking Shot
• The Oner
• Orbital Kiss
• Orbital Shot
• Over The Shoulder
• Overcrank
• Picture Pastiche
• Power Walk
• Rack Focus
• Raimi Vision
• Ramping Shot
• Reaction Shot
• Red Filter Of Doom
• Repeat Cut
• Reveal Shot
• Round Table Shot
• Scream Discretion Shot
• Screen Shake
• Shadow Discretion Shot
• Shot Reverse Shot
• Skyward Scream
• Slow Motion Drop
• Slow Motion Fall
• Slow Motion Pass By
• Snowy Screen Of Death
• Social Semi Circle
• Split Diopter
• Split Screen
  • Split Screen Phone Call
• Stairwell Chase
• Staggered Zoom
• Talking Heads
• Three Cameras
• Time Lapse
• Tracking Shot
• Traitor Shot
• Undercrank
• Vertigo Effect
• Walk And Talk
• Whip Pan

Various kinds of "Cams"

• Arrow Cam
• Dizzy Cam
• Eye Cam
• Face Cam
• Head Cam
• Hitler Cam
• Jitter Cam
• Monster Vision
• Mouth Cam
• Necro Cam
• POV Cam
  • Impending Doom POV
• Pow Zap Whamcam
• Robo Cam
• Steadi Cam

Standard shot mechanics and terms

• Depth Of Field
• Dolly
• Focal Length
• Motion Parallax
• Pan
• Pedestal
• Tilt
• Truck
• Zoom

Editing

• Aspect Ratio
  • Letterbox
  • Pan And Scan
    • The Ken Burns Effect
  • Visual Compression
• Continuity Editing

Transitions

• Dissolve (Mix)
• Fade In
• Fade Out
• Hard Cut
  • Jump Cut
• Iris Out
• Shape Match
• Smash Cut
• Split Edit
  • Transition Track
• Wipe
  • Idiosyncratic Wipes

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