CINEMA Flashcards
It is an audiovisual
experience
cinema
Film images are made when a
camera lens focuses light onto either film stock or video sensor chip.
T or F
T
Hair is not only important in
creating images, but directors
utilize light to create mood and
convey meaning.
T or F
F - Lights
When we watch movies we believe we are watching continuous movement of
mages on the screen; however, we
are actually seeing a rapid succession
of 100 individual FPS (Persistence of
Vision).
T or F
F - 24
Film is limited to a sequential order of clock time
(it can travel back and forth)
T or F
F - not limited
Film also has the power to
instantly shift locations through
editing
T or F
T
Filmmakers can manipulate time
by slowing or accelerating
motion.
T or F
T
It is the art form of story
telling. It answers the
questions: What a movie is all
about, characters, story itself,
etc
NARRATIVE
is defined as “writing in movement” and depends
largely on photography
CINEMATOGRAPHY
This includes framing and composition, shot size and type,
camera movement, lighting, and
color.
CINEMATOGRAPHY
is an aspect or film form that
includes everything that appears
before the camera within a shot
(sets, locations, actors, props,
costumes, light and shadow etc.)
Mise-en-scene
It is the linking of two
different pieces of film (i.e.
two different shots)
editing
connecting one scene to the
next and then several shots
in the same scene (Editor’s
job)
editing
It is often overlooked
because we tend to think of
film as a fundamentally
visual medium
sound
It is a powerful film technique
and it can actively shape how
we perceive and interpret the
image.
sound
refers to the types of movies that tell a story to which is
directed towards fiction in dramatic story- telling
Narrative
Filmmaking
These are the films produced by
big studios and are widely screened
in theaters, broadcast on television, streamed on the internet and sold as DVD’s.
Narrative
Filmmaking
This is more concerned with
exposing and interpreting
real facts and historical
events
documentary
Filmmaking
It explores real events,
not all documentaries
present the absolute truth
documentary
Filmmaking
