[Julia]

Good question, Amy! I had no idea there is such a thing as the “8 elements of film” before. Maybe I could ask one of my teachers about this as well

[Maura]

If we are talking about the eight technical elements that are involved in the production of films, these are the 8 elements:

1. The film type – can be any of these three categories: realism, classical and formalism

2. The shots – can be a close-up, full shot or over the shoulder

3. Angles – can be eye level, high angle, low angle or oblique angle

4. Colour – can be either saturated or desaturated

5. Lighting – can be silhouette/black lighting, low key lighting, high key lighting or chiaroscuro lighting

6. Sound – can be diegetic and non-diegetic

7. Editing – can be thematic, associative, dialectic, classical, continuity or radical subjective continuity

8. Mise-en-Scene – meaning the setting of a scene.
There are many more details to explain around each of these 8 elements but I hope it helps!

[Amy]

Thank you, Maura! There are, indeed, many other details that need to be explained. I guess this is the purpose of Film School, to cover Film Theory 😀

[István]

“The 8 elements of film” is a method to group a few elements together and each of them forms another set of group of elements and each of them means something. Theory is important but practice makes perfect. 🙂

[Harry]

From this question and from the answer that was provided by Maura, I can see that you are a student and a teacher mentioned this. I have not heard about “8 elements of film”. I have heard of each thing that Maura mentioned in her answer (except the last one). Theories like these also confused me a bit because I do not know how useful they are in your film career. It’s good to know them. The question is…are they useful?

[Colton]

The 8 elements of film are, you know, what it takes to make a film. They can help you have a clear structure in your head before starting to work on a film. You need sound, editing, colour, you need to make up your mind what type of film you want to make…