Definitions

Question 0

Semiotics

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Deeper meanings - the study of signs (what is denoted or connoted by a scene)

Question 1

Mise-en-scene

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Everything that is in a shot - props, characters, lighting etc.

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Denotation

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What a picture is/what you can see

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Connotation

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What you attribute to a certain image (red = danger/love)

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Polysemy

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When an image has multiple meanings/connotations

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Cultural capital

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Different cultures have different perceptions on what they watch and enjoy

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Preferred reading

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The intended view of the text/film

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Oppositional reading

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Viewer disagrees with the intended view of a film/gets a different reading of the film from their position

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Active viewing

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When you choose what you watch because you enjoy it

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Passive viewing

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You watch something because you have been told to or everyone else is watching it

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Antagonist

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Someone who is actively opposed or hostile to stop someone or something

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Protagonist

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The good guy, champion of a cause

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Foreshadowing

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Suggesting what might happen in the future

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Voyeurism

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Spying on something without that something knowing you are watching

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Mode of address

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How the text speaks to the audience

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Dramatic irony

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Audience knows something that the characters don’t

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Pan

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Turning the camera left to right and vice versa

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Tilt

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Pivoting camera up and down

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Enigma

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Questions asked by the audience during the film

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Crane

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Shot on a crane, shots when swooping down

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Tracking shot

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Camera on wheels, follow characters/objects

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Birds eye shot

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Looking down on the scene

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High key lighting

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Bright lighting

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Low key lighting

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Dark lighting, sometimes referred to as chiaroscuro lighting

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Depth of field

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How the scene is focused

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Deep focus

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When the fore, middle and background are all in focus

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Shallow focus

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When the foreground is the only thing in focus

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Ideology

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A set of ideas and values that guide our lives

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Hegemony

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Something that supports dominant ideologies

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Pluralism

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Opposes dominant ideologies

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Utopia

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The perfect place

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Dystopia

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Nightmarish - opposite of perfect

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Pathetic fallacy

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When the weather predicts the mood or shows the mood (rain for anguish and despair)

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Rule of thirds

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When the frame is split in to a 3x3 square to help placement and focus of characters in the frame

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Explicit ideologies

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Obvious points on a subject

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Implicit ideologies

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Subtle points on a subject

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Socio-economic groups

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Groups in the different classes or monetary sectors of society (poor/rich)

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Niche audience

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Small, select group of people that have a very unique interest

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High culture

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Set of cultural products, mainly in the arts, held in the highest esteem by a culture

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Pop culture

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Popular - typically aimed at the young

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Diegetic sound

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Sound in the actual shot

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Non diegetic sound

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Sound added in post production

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Editing

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Preparing for publication

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Cinematography

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The art of photography and camerawork in film making