| DISSOLVE | a movement from long shot to close up or vice versa |
| SETTING | description and purpose of lighting - natural or artificial |
| INFERENCE | to take apart and analyse |
| CONTEXT | the person who controls the telling of the story |
| DENOTATION | place where the action takes place |
| DENOTES | a series of shots that are strongly linked |
| CONNOTATION | filming from overhead |
| CONNOTES | a frame, a single picture |
| CODE | a movement of the camera from left to right, or from right to left |
| DIRECTOR | what is suggested |
| DECODE | describes a camera filming down or up |
| MIS EN SCENE | a person who chooses the actors for parts |
| DECONSTRUCT | a picture gradually appearing or disappearing |
| LIGHTING | putting in the frame |
| ZOOM | as one picture fades out another fades in |
| UPWARD/DOWNWARD TILT | explaining where the extract is taken from |
| PANNING | a process of organising the sequence order |
| CASTING DIRECTOR | surface level meaning |
| EDITING | verb describing surface level meaning |
| AERIAL SHOT | sounds artificially created, eg music |
| SEQUENCE | subtextual meaning |
| SHOT | characteristics of a language - filmic and written |
| DIEGETIC SOUND | verb used to describe subtext |
| NON-DIEGETIC SOUND | to pick out and analyse the different codes |
| MONTAGE | different shots placed side by side to highlight a relationship |
| FADE IN/OUT | natural sounds |