Exam 3 Flashcards
A film actor or actress of great popularity. tends to play only those roles that fit a preconceived public image, which constitutes his or her persona.
stars
Short for panorama, this is a revolving horizontal movement of the camera from left to right or vice versa.
Panning
The dividing line between the edges of the screen image and the enclosing darkness of the theater. Can also refer to a single photograph from the filmstrip.
Frame
A shot photographed by a tilted camera. When the image is projected on the screen, the subject seems to be tilted on a diagonal.
Tilting
A style of filmmaking characterized by austerity and restraint, in which cinematic elements are reduced to the barest minimum of information.
Minimalist
A symbolic technique in which stylized characters and situations represent rather obvious ideas, such as Justice, Death, and Society. A popular genre in the German cinema.
Allegory
A panoramic view of an exterior location, photographed from a great distance, often as far as a quarter-mile away.
Extreme long shot
The slow fading out of one shot and the gradual fading in of its successor, with a superimposition of images, usually at the midpoint.
Dissolve
The fade-out is the snuffing of an image from normal brightness to a black screen. A fade-in is the slow brightening of the image from a black screen to normal.
Fade
A group of young French filmmakers who came to prominence during the late 1950’s. The most widely known are Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Alain Resnais.
New Wave
A movie image which has an aspect ratio of approximately 5 by 3, though some widescreens possess horizontal distances that extend as wide as 2.5 times the vertical dimension of the screen.
Wide screen
A shot taken from a moving vehicle.
Dolly, tracking shot
A marketing strategy, common in the big studio era, in which theatre owners were required to rent studio movies before they were produced.
blind booking
An Italian film movement that produced its best works between 1945 and 1955. Strongly realistic in its technical biases, the movement emphasized documentary aspects of film art, stressing loose episodic plots, natural lighting, actual location settings, nonprofessional actors and a preoccupation with poverty and social problems.
Neoreallism
A low-budget movie usually shown as the second feature during the big studio era in America.
program films
A variation on a specific shot.
take
A shot of lengthy duration.
Lengthy take
A movie based on another medium which captures the essence of the original and uses cinematic equivalents for specific literary techniques.
Faithful adaptation
An editing technique that that suggests the interruption of the present by a shot or series of shots representing the past.
flashback
Any unobtrusive technique, object, or thematic idea that is systematically repeated throughout a film.
motif
An abrupt transition between shots, sometimes deliberate, which is disorienting in terms of the continuity of space and time.
Jump cuts
The kind of logic implied between edited shots, their principle of coherence. Cutting to continuity emphasizes smooth transitions between shots, in which time and space are unobtrusively condensed. More complex, classical cutting is the linking of shots according to an event’s psychological as well as logical breakdown. In radical montage, the continuity is determined by the symbolic association of ideas between shots rather than any literal connections in time and space. Continuity can also refer to the time–space continuum of reality before it’s broken down into fragments (shots).
Continuity
An actor-star can play roles of greater range and variety.
Actor stars
The American film industry’s censorship arm. The Code was introduced in 1930 but not enforced until 1934. It was revised in the 1950’s and was scrapped in favor of the present rating system in 1968.
Production Codes
The latter phase of a genre’s evolution in which many of its values and conventions are challenged or subjected to skeptical scrutiny.
revolutionist
Shots of a subject photographed at a faster rate than twenty- four frames per second, which when projected at the standard rate produce a dreamy, dance-like slowness of action.
Slow motion
Trick photography and optical effects, usually employed in fantasy films, especially science fiction.
Special effects
The box office appeal of the physical mounting of a film, such as sets, costumes and special effects.
Production values
Those images that are recorded continuously from the time the camera starts until the time it stops.
Shot
The arrangement of visual weights and movements within a given space. Cinematic mise en scene encompasses both the staging of the action and the way that it is photographed.
Mise en scene
