Techniques

Whip pan/Whip Cut: The camera is on one scene and to go to the next it whips creating a spinning motion. 

Whip Zoom Look: Zooming in fast into a subject.

Search Up: This is a technique that starts at the subjects feet and makes its way to the subjects face. 

Back to Front: The camera is focused in on something happening in the background and changes its  focus to something closer to the camera.

Focus Out/Pass out: This is when the camera blurs out to a fade to black. This is somewhat like the subject passing out.

Focus Transition: This is when the lighting is altered to create a focus in effect. An example would be someone waking up to a really bright light that slowly dims. 

Overexpose Fade: When the scene gradually becomes overly exposed to the point that the image is too bright.

Underexpose Fade: When the scene gradually becomes under exposed to the point that the image is too dark.

Ceiling Twist: When the camera is pointing upward toward an object of interest and rotates. 

Shifting Angle: When the camera is tilted back and forth between scenes. 

Sleepover: A birds eye view looking down onto the subject.  

Plot and Story

When you think of Story and Plot you think of them as the same thing. Many people make this mistake. They are very different things. After reading the article "Martin Scorsese Breaks Down the Differences between Story and Plot" and watching the videos attached, I have learned the difference. Scorsese starts to explain the difference in the first attached video. He describes how he enjoys story over plot because when he watched major pictures over and over the characters are what draws him in. Scorsese says that a good way to tell a good story is with your camera movement and that it becomes more interesting to him. We can predict that any famous director like Scorsese would say Story over Plot because of the way they look at movies. They think this because they think that photography and soundtrack is what draws in the audience. Throughout this article they basically give different definitions and examples of Plot and Story. My favorite description is very short and simple to understand.

Plot is what happens 

Story is why it happened and how

In my own opinion I agree with Scorsese. Story is more important than Plot. The reason i think that is because I am a film maker. In the eyes of someone who is not a film maker, they are the same thing.