Exam [Pre Midterm portion] Flashcards
Narrative structure
story
plot
character
visual (and audio)
mise en scene
cinematography
editing
sound
three distribution circuits
commercial, festival and educational
Man with A movie camera
Dziga Vertov (1920)
avante garde
jump cuts, dutch angles and stop motion animation
developed film editing techniques used today: thematic editing (instead of two abstract shots, uses a common theme to bring them together [example is water ; multiple shots of water usage etc.]
dismissed tradit. continuity editing, parralell editing= cuts made between similar concepts to convey simultaneous action. creating a connection.
Parralellism= graphic matches, man and machinery.
Kino-eye = ability to document events in the abscence of artificiality
Setting
not just background set expectations about genre and story creates atmosphere and mood realism or not studio set vs. on location
Costume and Hair and makeup
sets time
details about character( profession, status and personality)
offers clues about the role of the character
Standard three-point lightning
#1 Key light #2 Fill light #3 Back light
Black Girl
Directed by Ousmane Sembene (1966)
The shot
the shot is the basic element of filmaking
- piece of film run through the camera
- an uninterrupted run of the camera
- an uninterrupted image on film
- it is a unit of length and duration in time
Sequence vs. Scene
Sequence= a series of shots Scene= a series of shots unified by time and space
Four basic feautures of Cinematography
- framing
- camera angle
- depth of field
- camera movement
Framing
Camera distance
- extreme long shot
- long shot [wide shot]
- medium shot
- close up
- extreme close-up
Shot composition
1 shot, 2 shot
Four basic camera angles
- eye level
- low angle
- high angle
- dutch tilt [canted angle]
Depth[s] of field
shallow focus/narrow depth of field
Deep focus/ large depth of field
Camera movement
Pan Tilt [grand budapest hotel] dolly in and out tracking [the shinning] crane
Tangerine
directed by Sean Baker, 2015`
Editing [two main approaches]
continuity and montage editing
and then there’s elliptical or discontinuous editing
Continuity editing
hollywood style, invisible editing, illusion of spatial and temporary unity, maintains versimilitude
[establishing shots, cutting on action, eyeline matching, shot reverse shot and the 180* rule]
Monsoon Wedding
Mira Nair, 2001
Montage
• Emphasizes dynamic, often discontinuous,
relationships between shots and the
juxtaposition of images to create ideas not
present in either shot by itself.
• Unlike continuity editing – we notice the cuts
Daisies
Vera Chytilova, 1966
Synchronous vs Asynchronous [sound and image]
Synchronous basically means that you can only execute one thing at a time. Asynchronous means that you can execute multiple things at a time and you don’t have to finish executing the current thing in order to move on to next one
Diagetic and Non diagetic
Diegetic sound is a noise which has a source on-screen. They are noises which have not been edited in, for example dialogue between characters or footsteps. Another term for diegetic sound is actual sound. Non-diegetic sound is a noise which does not have a source on-screen, they have been added in
