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1020 Final Exam Flashcards

1
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Building block of cinema

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shot

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2
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What is cinematography

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art of capturing moving images

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3
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first ac responsibilities

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pulls focus

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4
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DP responsibilities

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Camera and lighting decisions

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5
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take

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each time a planned shot is captured

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6
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setup

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one camera position and everything asociated with it

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7
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shot

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unbroken span of action captured by a single camera

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8
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Standard format or gauge for productions

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35mm

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9
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What does the speed variable of film stock control?

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Exposure index- slow film stocks require more light (cleaner shot), fast film stocks require less light but are more grainy.

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10
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Tonality

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Range of tones from pure white to pure black.

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11
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Aperture

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adjustable iris: controls how much light is let in and depth of field.

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12
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Short focal length

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aka wide angles (near complete depth of field)

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13
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Long focal length

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aka telephoto

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14
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Middle focal length

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standard lenses

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15
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Standard Aspect Ratio

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1.375:1 (Sometimes quoted as 1.33:1)

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16
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Wide Screen Aspect Ratio

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1.85:1

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17
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Implied Proximity

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The distance between the viewer and subject on screen

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18
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Long Shot

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Subject and background in equal measure. (establishing shot)

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19
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Medium Long Shot

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Knee UP

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20
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Medium Shot

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Waist UP

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21
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Medium Close UP

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Mid chest up

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22
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Close up

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Face fills frame

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23
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Deep Focus Cinematography

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Wide Angle (short focal length) keeps subject, back, and foreground in focus.

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24
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Dolly shot

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aka tracking shot

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25
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Open frame

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characters move freely outside of the frame

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26
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closed frame

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characters are stuck in the frame depicting other forces trapping the character.

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27
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Special Effects

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aka mechanical or practical effects

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28
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visual effects

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effects created using computers on postproduction

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29
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motion capture

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using bodysuits with reflectors for post-production

30
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4 types of actors

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1- Actors who take their personae from role to role (personality actors like Tom Cruise)
2-Actors who deliberately play against our expectations of their personae.
3- Actors who seem to be different in every role (chameleon actors)
4-Actors who are non professional cast to bring verisimilitude or reality.

31
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who invented the art of screen acting

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Lillian Gish

32
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Who invented method acting

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Konstantin Stanislavsky

33
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What is ensemble acting.

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An approach that emphasizes the interacting of actors and not individual performance. Found more so in theatre and not movies.

34
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alienation effect

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seeks to distance the audience from identifying with character.

35
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4 criteria for analyzing actors performance

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1- Appropriateness
2- Inherent thoughtfulness/emotionality
3- Expressive coherence
4- Wholeness and unity

36
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Responsibilities of an Editor

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Spatial Relations
Temporal Relations
Juxtaposition
Control rhythm, pace and shot duration

Organize fragmented actions and events

37
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Master Scene Technique and Master Shot

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a scene is captured with multiple times with different shot types and angles to be constructed in post. Master shot captures a long shot of the entire scene before closer and more specific shots are captured.

38
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Shot/reverse shot

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Entire interaction is filmed facing one character then filmed again facing other character.

39
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Cross cutting or Parallel Editiing

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Cutting back and forth between two or more actions happening simultaneously in separate locations. (Godfather)

40
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Intercuting

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Shots that interrupt the narrative aka flashbacks, character thoughts etc.

41
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ellipsis

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a temporal leap between shots.

42
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overlapping action

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repetition of action using multiple shots and angles

43
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Contenten curve

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represents the duration required to take in the easily available amount of information. duration and information relationship graph.

44
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Pace

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Speed of at which a scene flows. Made of of shots with similar duration

45
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Rhythm

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Changing of pace within a scene

46
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Match cuts (3 types)

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used to help maintain continuity

  • cutting on action
  • eye line cut
  • graphic cuts (bone to spaceship 2001 Space Odyssey(similar shape between shots))
47
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Jump cut

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Same shot that the middle is chopped out to show a fast forward in time.

48
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Fundamental tool of an editor

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the cut

49
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Kuleshov Experiment

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2 shots do not need any relationship for a spacial relationship to take place.

50
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Associative Edititng

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inserting incongruent images in a scene to invoke a mood or thematic idea.

51
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Sergei Eisenstein Battleship Potemkin

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Known for repetition of action

52
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French New Wave

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Rejection of traditional filmmaking for more experimental techniques

53
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double sound recording

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sound is recorded separate from video recording.

54
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Automatic Dialog Replacement

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Re-recording bad audio in studio by lip syncing over video.

55
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Fidelity

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sounds faithfulness to the source

56
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Quality of sound

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what distinguishes sounds with same amplitude and frequency. Such as a guitar sound vs piano sound

57
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Diegetic sounds

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sounds heard by audience and characters

58
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non diegetic sounds

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sounds only heard by audience

59
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Nonsimultaneous sound

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occurs in flashbacks outside of the characters normal

60
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The Jazz Singer

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first movie with synchronized sound

61
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First motion picture camera

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Kinetograph (Edison)

62
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Peephole viewer

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Kinetoscope

63
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1915 Birth of a Nation (Griffiths)

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First classic Hollywood style

64
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Paramount Consent Decrees

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Stopped studios from buying into theatres

65
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Production Code

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self censorship in productions

66
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Above the line vs Below the line

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Above is preproduction costs and below is production and post costs.

67
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Negative Cost

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the cost to produce, not advertise the film

68
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Dailiies

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raw unedited footage at the end of each production day.

69
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Package unit system

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producers would propose projects to studios for funding rather than studios coming up with ideas.

70
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line producer vs production manager

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production manager carries out line producers decision who is second to the producer.

71
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The general

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silent film era and slapstick comedy

72
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Lumiere Brothers

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Invented cinematographe, fathers of capturing movement in camera.

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