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Cinema Flashcards

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Cinema

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Comes from Greek work kenesis meaning movement

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Cinematic language

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To film what grammar is to writing/ comes with its own terminology to words

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Shots

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An uninterrupted run of the camera

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Fade in/fade out

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Technique used for the passage of time/ screen fades to black or solid color wash

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Protagonist

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  • “The character that wins” even tho they don’t always win
  • The character who changes the most/has the most things happen to them
  • The main character
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Implicit meaning

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Underlying meaning

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Explicit meaning

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Surface meaning

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Formal analysis

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-A study of the formal elements of film
-elements of form
I.e.
Cinematography, acting, sounds

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Theme

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Underlying message or idea

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Motif

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The recurring symbol that underscores the meaning

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Duration

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The length of a shot

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POV

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The position from which a film represents the actions of the story

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Form

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How that subject is expressed

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Content

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Subject

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How do Form and content relate to each other?

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They work together to give the viewer context

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Fundamentals of film form

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  1. Dependent on light
  2. Provides an illusion of movement
  3. Manipulates space and time
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Phi phenomenon

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Illusion of movement created by events that succeed each other

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Critical flicker fusion

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2 lights switch on and off until they become one light

Flicked effect

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Persistence of vision

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Our brains hang on to a vision a moment longer than what’s actually there

Works together with the phi phenomenon and critical flicker fusion

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Mediation

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Transfer o information from one place to the next

Transferring of information

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Scene

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Shot: uninterrupted run of the camera ➡️ put together in a sequence ➡️ put together to form a scene

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Sequence

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Uninterrupted run of the camera put together to form a scene

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Freeze frame

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The same frame repeated over and over at 24 fps

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Realism

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Real to life

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Antirealism

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An interest of concern for the abstract or extraordinary

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Verisimilitude

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The movies world vision seems realistic as if it was really there
- it follows its rules and is believable

Ex. In avatar the blue people can’t stop and wat cheeze it’s and drink a 7 up

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Mac guffin

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Coined by Alfred Hitchcock
Plot device that is usually something that’s very important to the character in the beginning and has no value in te end
Ex. In phyco (bates motel) the suitcase is important in the beginning but means nothing in the end

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What differentiates narratives from documentaries and experimental films?

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Narratives are broken into genres

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Narrative

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They tell a story
Directed towards fiction
Sci-fi, rom-com, action/adventure, musical, comedy, etc

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Documentary

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Films that record real life in creative ways

The creative treatment of actuality- John grierson

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Factual documentary

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Present real people, real places without undoley influencing the audience

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Instructional documentary

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How to

Youtube

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Persuasive documentary

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Usually address social injustice of cause

Subjective

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Propaganda documentary

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Deals with politics or very big companies

Triumph of the will

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Direct cinema

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The subject addresses the camera directly in order to tell the story

Speak truthful this about themselves

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Avant-garde

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French word that means advanced guard

Techniques that drift down to films

Ie cloverfield

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6 characteristics of experimental films

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  1. Gangster
  2. Film noir
  3. Science fiction
  4. Horror
  5. Western
  6. Musical
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Stream of consciousness

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Captures the unedited flow of experience through the mind

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A movies narrative?

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Fictional or fictionalized events, type of film, how the movie is described to us

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Screenwriter

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The people or peoples who write the screenplay

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Screenplay

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The story of a movie

The text of the story of a movie

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Evolution of a screenplay

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  1. Pitch - the short enticing description of an idea
  2. Treatment - a pro’s (short story version) of the idea
  3. Rough draft/ 1st draft
  4. Shoot script - the master script, a reference point for all members of the production unit
  5. Story boards - a scene by scene breakdown of the script to give a visual representation; combines sketches/photographs to show how the scene should look
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Elements of a narrative

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  1. Exposition - all the things that happen before the movie that evolves the plot
  2. Inciting moment - the event/situation during the exposition stage of the narrative that sets the rest of the narrative in motion
  3. Rising action - bulk of the movie; temporary defeats, mentors, allies, enemies, threshold guardians
  4. Climax - point of no return, the turning point
  5. Denouement/resolution - the end of the movie, all is resolved, plot line ties up
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Who said a movie needs a beginning middle and end?

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Aristotle

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Who said that beginning middle and end don’t have to be in order?

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John Luc Godard

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Difference between plot and story?

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Plot is what he story is surrounded by

Plot is based off of the story

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Subplot

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Shines light on plot, usually not important to movie

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Backstory

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The fictional history that is behind the story

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Direct address

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The narrator speaks directly to us

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Voice over

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The narrator is a voice over an image

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First person narration

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The narrator is a character in the movi

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Third person narration

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The narrator is a character that doesn’t exist in the movie

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Suspense vs surprise

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Suspense brings an anxiety of uncertainty

Surprise ends the suspense

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Scope

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The overall range of the story

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Setting

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Time and place

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Difference between story plot and screen duration

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Story: everything we see/hear/implied meanings
Plot: surrounds the story, the purpose of the story
Duration: the time the movie takes to unfold onscreen

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Familiar image

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The image the director has periodically repeating in the film to help stabilize the narrative

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Round character

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3d

Unpredictable, complex, surprising

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Flat character

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1d

Predictable, easily remembered

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Major character

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One of the main characters

Has the most happen to them

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Minor character

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Supporting character, fewer traits, may lack definition/screen time

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Marginal character

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Lacks definition and screen time

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Mise-en-scene

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Look and feel of the movie

Design + composition

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Design

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Process of choosing visual and audio elements for the shots

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Composition

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How it’s Arranged (where the design elements go)

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Lighting

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Movies are dependent on light

It sets the mood and creates atmosphere for each scene

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Production designer/art director

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Oversees all design elements

One of the first people to work, does pre-production

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HBQ hairstyle

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Hollywood beauty queen

A wig that was used for years in movies

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Soundstage

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A place where movies are shot

A large, windowless, soundproof room

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Lumière Brothers

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Non-fiction, realistic
Known for “actualities”
Ie
Coal miners leaving work

Late 1880’s , 10 yr span

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George melies

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Fiction, non realistic, fantasies
Known for “man on the moon”
Special effects

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Expressionism

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A movement that deals with nightmare logic
Diagonals forced perspective
A German movement
Ex. The cabinet of dr. Caligari - Robert wigne 1920
Tim burton

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Framing

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What the camera points at

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Kinesis

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Reframing: when camera moves
Kinesis: subject in frame moving
Greek, also root word of cinema

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Offscreen

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Can’t see

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Onscreen

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Can see

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Open frame

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Wide shot
Character can move more freely
Open spaces
Unlimited movement and space

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Closed frame

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Closed in, tight, claustrophobic

Can be inhibited phycology and physically

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Big 3

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Cinematographer
Director
Production designer

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Props

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Things that actors can handle ad move around

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Decor

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Set scenery

Sofas lamps chairs

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Cinematography

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Writing with movement and light

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Cinematographers job

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Determine what is placed in front of the camera and where those things need to go

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Cinematographers title

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Director of photography

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Shot

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An uninterrupted run f the camera

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Set up

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Every time they move the camera for a new shot completely

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Take

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Number of times they take a new shot

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Film stock

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Color or black an white
Cinematographer in charge of
Speed, gauge = (mm 18, super 8, 16,35,65,70,iMax)
8-18 is ametuer

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Film speed

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Cinematographer in charge of
The degree in which the film is light sensitive
The faster the more sensitive to light - grainier
Less sensitive is slower

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Widescreen aspect ratio

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Cinematographer in charge of

1:33 (width) to 1(height)

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Production values

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The overall style of the film

The amount/quality of both human/physical resources devoted to the film

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Two sources of light

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Natural - sunlight

Artificial- manipulated

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Artificial lights are called

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Instruments

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Two kinds of artificial lights are

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Flood lights - softer

Focusable - bright light

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Reflector bird

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Used to bounce light
2 sides
Birge/white - dulls or softens light
Metallic - reflects brightens light

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Key light

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Controls how the lights look

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3 point light system

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Fill light - softens shadows
Key light - controls how the light is
Back light (edge/rim light)
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Fill light

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Softens features

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Aperture

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Gate

Here the light cows in

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Iris

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The adjustable diaphragm

Think of your eye

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Focal length

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The distance between the optical center and the lens

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Short focal length lens

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Wide angle more depth

Looks further apart

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Long focal length lens

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Telephoto looks closer to camera

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Depth of field

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The distance in front of the camera where the objects Are sharp

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Rack focaus

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Where you change the point of focus from one subject to another
The switch of focus from blurt to sharp or vise versa

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Extreme long shot

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Characters outline is visible

More surroundings are taped

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Long shot

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The characters features are not as visible

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Medium long shot

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American log shot

Subjects filmed from knees up

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Two shot

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Two people are in shot

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Medium shot

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Filmed from waist up

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Close up

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Fined chest up

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Extreme close up

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An object is given a lot of detail

Ex. Filming just a hand or letter or eyes

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High angle shot

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When the camera must be look down at something

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Low angle shot

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When the camera is looking up at something

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Dutch angle shot

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Sideways shot
Oblique
Frame is off balance
Character is in a state of distortion

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Pan shot

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Camera moves horizontally

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Tilt shot

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Moving/angling camera up an down

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Dolly/traveling shot

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Camera is fixed to a vehicle or cart

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Tracking shot

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Camera moves on tracks she. Following a subject

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Zoom

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Magnifies shot just by the lens of the camera

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Crave sht

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Camera is attached to a mechanical arm

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Stedicam

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Not a camera
A vest that the camera operator wears with articulated arm
Allows for vibrations to be absorbed while filming with a handled camera

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Omniscient pov

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Camera knows all

Follows everyone

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Single character pov

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Camera only follows one character

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Slow mo

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More than 24 fps

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Fast mo

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Less than 24 fps

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