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Cropping is used to sharpen clips if they are too long and make them flow thoroughly. This helps the audience feel as if they was watching a realistic film. For example, if there was a few seconds at the end of a two way conversion for every time someone spoke, it would seem really artificial.

Sizing is important if you are making a particular type of audio visual content, the size will depend on what is is you are doing. For example, a film will be around 1hour 30minutes whilst a documentary will be around 30-45minutes. You get the sizing wrong you might end up putting in too much information or sometimes not enough.

Camera angles can be tricky if done wrong, when you create a piece of audio visual the camera angles and shots are important to give the right feel to the type of video you're making. For example, if you had a close up shot in a car chase would prove useless unless followed up by a tracking shot, because you wouldn't know what was going on.




One of the most important elements to a drama or a film is the theme music without this, the code is sometimes not understood. For example, if a character was to walk into a bar without any music it would be hard to distinguish what the deal is with him/her, but if evil, eerie music plays it tells us that this character is bad.


Captions are used to add another message to usually pictures, normally in newspapers you will find added information underneath telling you more about whatever is going on. For example, if there was a picture of just a boy, the captions could say "Boy killed at age thirteen".

Font  helps distinguish the way you mentally read a passage of text. For example, 'The Sun' has quite bold rounded text for a more eye-catching look but 'The Times' has quite formal text for quite sophisticated people.





Stars can prove to be viable in certain pieces, mostly due to the fact that some actors are especially good at playing certain roles. For example, Jason Statham is always playing a killer, because his acting abilities and appearances are suited to the role.