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Question 1

Long shot

Answer 1

Includes entire person and background, subject seems smaller . Variations are extreme and medium. Shot of person from knees up or subject is slightly smaller than a medium shot

Question 2

Medium shot

Answer 2

Shot of person from waist up or where the scale of subject is moderate size

Question 3

Canted shot

Answer 3

Made from tilting camera at an angle on a subject

Question 4

off-screen space

Answer 4

space in a scene that the audience cannot see but knows to contain someone or something of importance to the story

Question 5

tracking shot

Answer 5

produced by a camera that moves smoothly alongside, behind, or ahead of action

Question 6

long take

Answer 6

single continuous shot of unusually long duration

Question 7

subjective point of view shot

Answer 7

shot that simulates what a character sees

Question 8

pan

Answer 8

lateral camera movement along an imaginary horizontal axis

Question 9

tilt

Answer 9

upward camera movement along an imaginary vertical axis

Question 10

deep focus

Answer 10

defines a shot where both the foreground and background planes are in sharp focus

Question 11

racking focus

Answer 11

a shot where the focus shifts among foreground, middle ground, and/or background planes.

Question 12

speed of motion (what exactly does a cinematographer do?)

Answer 12

slow, fast, and stop-motion are the arsenal of the filmmaker to alter the look of the film.

Question 13

cut

Answer 13

place where one shot ends and another begins; a direct transition from one shot to the next.

Question 14

graphic match

Answer 14

(cut on form) a way of connecting two or more shots through repeated shapes or patterns.

Question 15

nondiegetic insert

Answer 15

an image inserted into a scene that comes from outside the world of the story

Question 16

overlapping editing

Answer 16

the repeated presentation of a plot event, expanding its on-screen duration and underscoring its significance

Question 17

elliptical editing

Answer 17

allows an action to consume less screen time by transitioning between shots that suggests a passage of time

Question 18

montage sequence

Answer 18

series of brief shots that summarizes a section of the story

Question 19

fade

Answer 19

transitional device in which a shot slowly darkens and disappears (fade-out) or lightens and appears (fade-in).

Question 20

dissolve

Answer 20

transitional device in which one shot disappears as another appears.

Question 21

screen direction

Answer 21

directional relationships in a scene determined by the position of characters and objects by direction of their movements and eyeline matches

Question 22

iris

Answer 22

transitional device in which the image contracts or expands within a small circle

Question 23

wipe

Answer 23

transitional device where one image appears to be pushed aside b\y the next

Question 24

establishing shot

Answer 24

(master shot) shot that orients the audience for the scene that follows

Question 25

shot/reverse shot

Answer 25

editing pattern that cuts between two characters in conversation

Question 26

eyeline match

Answer 26

editing pattern that cuts between a character looking and the object of his or her gaze

Question 27

crosscutting

Answer 27

process of cutting back and forth between two or more parallel actions, also known as parallel editing

Question 28

jump cut

Answer 28

cut that seems to suggest a glitch or skip in the film

Question 29

diegetic sound

Answer 29

sound originating from the within the story

Question 30

nondiegetic sound

Answer 30

music, words, or effects from outside the story world that shapes our experiences of the film but does not come from within

Question 31

sound bridge

Answer 31

sound that connects two scenes. could be a sound that carries over from one scene to the next or a sound from. the second scene that's heard before the first scene ends

Question 32

non-simultaneous sound

Answer 32

sounds from the past or the future within the story world

Question 33

internal diegetic sound

Answer 33

character's thoughts and memories, heard but not spoken aloud

Question 34

line reading

Answer 34

(line delivery) the way in which an actor says the words from the script

Question 35

score

Answer 35

nondiegetic musical accompaniment written specifically for a film

Question 36

fourth wall

Answer 36

imaginary wall or barrier between the audience and the characters that creates the illusion of a separate story would.

Question 37

dubbing

Answer 37

process of rerecording dialogue and synchronizing it with shots; looping

Question 38

voice-over narration

Answer 38

lines are spoken by a narrator that are non-diegetic

Question 39

musical motif

Answer 39

a brief and recurring pattern of notes

Question 40

foley artist

Answer 40

member of the sound design team who creates sounds in a studio using various props

Question 41

sound cue

Answer 41

musical theme or sound effect that signals the arrival of a character or the performance of an action