Chapter: 5 Cinematography And Special Visual Effects

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What we are seeing, how it is being shown, and why it is being shown that way.
Cinematic points of view

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1. Objective (camera as sideline observer)
2. Subjective (camera as participant in the action)
3. Indirect-subjective
4. Directors interpretive

Question 1

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.

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Motion picture

Question 2

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

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Objective point of view

Question 3

Emotional intensity felt by character, intense feels like you are being a part of the action.
-in the game, character view of action.

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Subjective point of view

Question 4

An objective shot that shows a character looking off-screen and thereby cues us to wonder what the character is looking at.

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Look of outward regard

Question 5

A shot that shows us what a character is seeing.

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Eye line shot

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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.

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Indirect-subjective point of view

Question 7

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.

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Directors interpretive point of view

Question 8

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.

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Shot.

Question 9

Is a shot of a person or object taken at close range.

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Close up

Question 10

Moving the camera on a horizontal plane, left and right.

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Panning

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A frame in which there is little or no dramatically or aesthetically interesting visual information.

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Dead screen

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Moving the camera in a vertical line, up and down.

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Tilting

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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.

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Zoom lens

Question 14

Is a portable, one-person camera with a built-in gyroscope that prevents any sudden jerkiness and provides a smooth, rock-steady image.

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Steadicam

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A small, computerized, remote-controlled camera that flies on wires at speeds of up to twenty miles per hour, can hop practically anywhere.

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Skycam

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A shot taken, from some distances, that shows the subject as well as it’s surroundings.

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Long shot

Question 17

A fram packed with dramatically or aesthetically interesting visual information, usually with some form of motion incorporated into the composition.

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Live screen

Question 18

One continuous shot focusing the camera lens, in turn, on objects in different planes of depth (different distances from the camera)

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Rack focus

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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.

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Deep focus

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A shot made with the camera below eye level, thereby exaggerating the size and importance of the subject.

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Low-angle shot

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A shot made with the camera above eye level, thereby dwarfing the subject and diminishing its importance.

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High-angle shot

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A slight blurring of focus for effect.

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Soft focus

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A lens that takes in a broad area and increases the illusion of depth but sometimes distorts the edges of the image.

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Wide-angle lens

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Compresses depth so that the distance between foreground and background objects seem less than it actually is.

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Telephoto lens

Question 25

The frantic, herky-jerky movement that results when a scene is filmed at less-than-normal speed.
-old silent film

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Fast motion

Question 26

An extreme form of fast motion in which a single frame is exposed at regular intervals then projected at fast speed.
-a flower blooming

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Time-elapse photography

Question 27

Bend both horizontally and vertically and distorts depth perception.

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Fish-eye lens

Question 28

A cinematic technique that involves photoshopping live action through a scene painted on glass.

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Glass shot

Question 29

Any special effect technique that use some type of visual mask to allow more than one image to be photographed on a single frame.

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Matte shot

Question 30

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

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Stop motion animation