Film as a Medium

Question 1

What makes film different than other mediums

Answer 1

can be distributed
uses a lot of other mediums
edinting can compress or reflect time
very immersive, always looking for a way to engage your sense

Question 2

persistence of vision

Answer 2

an effect when you see a series of still images that make it look like a moving image EXAMPLE the horses in motion

Question 3

frame rate

Answer 3

number of frames per second in a video

Question 4

digital

Answer 4

takes all the information from analog and breaks it down into 0’s and 1’s. can’t ever get every single colour

Question 5

analog

Answer 5

physical world. see all colours, hear all inbetween sounds

Question 6

aspect ratio:

Answer 6

the measurment of the width and height of the frames

your resolution depends on the aspect ratio you’re shooting

Question 7

fiilm grammer

Answer 7

the way film creators reference the language of film makers. about shots, and how you put things on your screen.
EXAMPLE: fade to black = period

Question 8

framing heights

Answer 8

the way in which shots are composed

Question 9

establishing shots

Answer 9

a quick picture to tell you where you are and to orient the viewer and what’s going on. near the beginning of the scene

Question 10

closeup

Answer 10

see a lot of emotion on someones face

Question 11

wideshot

Answer 11

shows people head to toe, that also establishes the space

Question 12

POV shot,

Answer 12

we are from the point of view of the character, when we’re trying to convay what the character is feeling

Question 13

birdseye view

Answer 13

from looking above, a sense of floating or omenince

Question 14

why do shots matter

Answer 14

every single show tells the view what’s going on. the visual tells a huge part of the story apart from the dialog