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Film Terms Flashcards

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Mis en Scene

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Everything captured within the camera’s frame– that which shows up on screen. (Setting, subjects, composition, etc.)

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Key Light

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Primary lighting source striking subject

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Fill Light

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Soft light fills in yet unlit areas of subject, and dissolves shadows

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Hard Light

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Direct, strong light, often from a single direction like the sun; can create stark shadows

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Soft light

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Light reflected off another surface before it hits a given subject

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High-key Lighting

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Light covers most of the subject and the surrounding space; minimizes contrast between dark and bright areas; often suggests ease and comfort

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Low-key Lighting

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The subject receives little illumination, leaving much of the subject in darkness; allows
for greater contrast between dark and lights areas of image; sometimes ominous

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Side Lighting

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Subject is lit from one side, creating contrast between halves of the face

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Back Lighting

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Single light source illuminates character from behind, casting subject’s features and perhaps identity or motivations into doubt

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Split-screen technique

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Conveying two or more frames/images on the same screen at the same time

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Tracking Shot

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Shot in which camera follows a moving subject within frame, often for a considerable time

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Dollying

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Filming while camera is affixed to a moving, wheeled platform (as on train tracks)

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Panning

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Pivoting mounted or relatively fixed camera sideways around a central axis (as on a tripod)

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Swish Pan

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Panning so fast that it creates blurred images

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German Expressionism

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Exaggerated, sometimes distorted set design, costuming, and atmosphere reflect extreme emotional states, cognitive differences, and strange situations

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33 (4:3)

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Original silent film format, and TV format until HD

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Aspect Ratio: 1.37 (Academy Ratio)

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Slightly larger than 1.33 to accommodate audio track alongside video frame; affects picture shape only slightly; first use in 1932

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Aspect Ratio: 1.43 (IMAX)

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Runs 70mm film horizontally. First used in 1970.

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Aspect Ratio: 1.78 (16:9)

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Current standard for HDTV

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85 (VistaVision)

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Standard 35mm film rotated 90 degrees, allowing for larger image & higher quality
picture. First used in 1954.

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Aspect Ratio: 1.9 (IMAX)

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Created using high-def, digital proprietary cameras and projectors. First used in 2008.

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Aspect Ratio: 2.2(Todd A-O)

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70mm film (twice that of 35mm film) allows for wider projected image at high
resolution. First used in 1955

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Aspect Ratio: 2.2 (Super Panavision 70)

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A 70mm film format. First used in 1959

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Aspect Ratio: 2.2 (Super Panavision 70)

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Wide image squeezed onto standard 35mm film, then re-expanded when projected.
First used in 1953 by 20th-Century Fox

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Aspect Ratio: 2.59 (Cinerama)

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Created in cinemas by projecting three standard 35mm images next to one another. First use in 1952.

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Aspect Ratio: 2.76 (MGM 65)

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Another kind of 70mm film format. First used in 1957. Used today by directors like Christopher Nolan

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Deep Focus

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Much of a subject’s surroundings are also in focus; wide-angle lens achieve this

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Soft Focus

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Subject slightly out of focus; used to grant subject an idealized appearance

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Imprecise Focus

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Neither foreground, midground, or background in clear focus

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Rack Focus

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Altering focus in midst of a single shot, either from background to foreground or vice versa,
while retaining the same amount of material in the frame (as opposed to zooming, which alters both)

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Extreme Long Shot

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Subject appears small, at a distance within the frame; helps establish setting

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Long Shot

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Subject still visible in its entirety, close enough to register bodily & facial reactions to setting

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Medium Shot

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Only part of subject is visible (often knees or waist up, if human); setting still a variable

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Medium Close-Up

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Subject fills most of frame; if human subject, frame captures shoulders & head

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Close-Up

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Virtually no setting visible; if human subject, tight focus on most of face

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Extreme Close-Up

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Part of subject fills entire frame; could be part of a person’s face or limb

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Establishing Shot

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A shot that introduces the broader contours of a particular space, indoors or outdoors,
before cutting to a shot that draws us closer to the subjects within that space

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Shot/Verse Shot

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The process of alternating between shots of two different characters in a conversation

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Over-the-shoulder Shot

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Shooting over the face of one character from over the shoulder of another

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Masked Shot

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Altering a frame’s shape as if seen through a particular shape (keyhole, binoculars, etc.)

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Subjects

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Characters and their actions, reactions, and appearances

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Composition

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The arrangement of subjects, setting, lighting, etc. relative to one another

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Diegetic Sound

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Sound traceable to a source in the film’s storyline (whether visible or not)

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Non-Diegetic Sound

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Sound that cannot be explained by film action (e.g narration, musical score.)

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Cross Cutting

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Editing technique; interweaves separate actions often in separate locations. Intended to take place simultaneously.

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Match Cut

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Connects two scenes from different locations with similarly shaped/colored objects, provide visual connectivity

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Contrast Cut

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Jarring transition between two scenes for discordant thematic/stylistic material

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Jump Cut

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Transition that interrupts continuity, often purposely.

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Parallel Cutting

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A type of cross cutting: Forms such a strong parallel between actions, that it encourages compare/contrast between these different situations. Actions could connect characters directly (interaction) or symbolically.

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Synchronous Sound

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Combines a visual image with the sounds apparently issuing from it.

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Nonsynchronous Sound

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Sound not matched to the image nor recorded during shooting.

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