Chapter: 5 Cinematography And Special Visual Effects Flashcards
What we are seeing, how it is being shown, and why it is being shown that way.
Cinematic points of view
- Objective (camera as sideline observer)
- Subjective (camera as participant in the action)
- Indirect-subjective
- Directors interpretive
A flowing, ever changing stream of images and sounds, a fluid blend of image, sound, and motion possessed by a restless compulsion to be vibrantly alive.
Motion picture
Window effect, at a distance not a part of the scene, natural normal camera angle, to much loss of interest.
-Watching a baseball game from afar
Objective point of view
Emotional intensity felt by character, intense feels like you are being a part of the action.
-in the game, character view of action.
Subjective point of view
An objective shot that shows a character looking off-screen and thereby cues us to wonder what the character is looking at.
Look of outward regard
A shot that shows us what a character is seeing.
Eye line shot
Not the view of the participant, close to action, emotional effect, makes things more dramatic, the closeness, feel action without showing character.
-close up to the action and involves us in it as we focus the tension on batters hands, feeling his tension.
Indirect-subjective point of view
Consciously aware of what the director wants us to see in an unusually way.
-low angle view of the batter, makes us see the batter in an unusual way, perhaps the emotions effect as the ball may come in.
Directors interpretive point of view
A strip of film produced by a single continuous running of the camera. After editing and printing processes, a shot becomes the segment of film between cuts or optical transitions.
Shot.
Is a shot of a person or object taken at close range.
Close up
Moving the camera on a horizontal plane, left and right.
Panning
A frame in which there is little or no dramatically or aesthetically interesting visual information.
Dead screen
Moving the camera in a vertical line, up and down.
Tilting
A series of lenses that keep an image in constant focus. Magnifying the subject, give the camera the apparent power to vary movement toward or away from the subject.
Zoom lens
Is a portable, one-person camera with a built-in gyroscope that prevents any sudden jerkiness and provides a smooth, rock-steady image.
Steadicam
A small, computerized, remote-controlled camera that flies on wires at speeds of up to twenty miles per hour, can hop practically anywhere.
Skycam
A shot taken, from some distances, that shows the subject as well as it’s surroundings.
Long shot
A fram packed with dramatically or aesthetically interesting visual information, usually with some form of motion incorporated into the composition.
Live screen
One continuous shot focusing the camera lens, in turn, on objects in different planes of depth (different distances from the camera)
Rack focus
The use of special lenses that allow the camera to focus simultaneously and usually with equal clarity on objects anywhere from two feet to several hundred feet.
Deep focus
A shot made with the camera below eye level, thereby exaggerating the size and importance of the subject.
Low-angle shot
A shot made with the camera above eye level, thereby dwarfing the subject and diminishing its importance.
High-angle shot
A slight blurring of focus for effect.
Soft focus
A lens that takes in a broad area and increases the illusion of depth but sometimes distorts the edges of the image.
Wide-angle lens
Compresses depth so that the distance between foreground and background objects seem less than it actually is.
Telephoto lens
The frantic, herky-jerky movement that results when a scene is filmed at less-than-normal speed.
-old silent film
Fast motion
An extreme form of fast motion in which a single frame is exposed at regular intervals then projected at fast speed.
-a flower blooming
Time-elapse photography
Bend both horizontally and vertically and distorts depth perception.
Fish-eye lens
A cinematic technique that involves photoshopping live action through a scene painted on glass.
Glass shot
Any special effect technique that use some type of visual mask to allow more than one image to be photographed on a single frame.
Matte shot
A variation on drawn animation techniques. Taking a bunch of pictures and the. Putting it together to lookalike it is moving.
-Lego movie, first King Kong
Stop motion animation
