final exam film terms Flashcards
long shot
Define a shot in which the subject is diminished in the frame, seen from afar, with a strong sense of surroundings, which tend to dominate
medium shot
Define: A relatively close shot, revealing a moderate amount of detail. A medium shot of a figure generally includes the body’s knees or waist up
close-up
Define: A detailed view of a person or object, usually without much context. An actor’s close-up usually includes only their head.
two shot
medium shot with two actors
three shot
A medium shot with three actors
over the shoulder shot
Define: a shot over a charcaters shoulder looking at a different character
dolly shot
A shot that changes the position of the point of view by moving forward, backward, or around the subject, usually tracks that have been constructed in advance or on a dolly that follows a determined course
crane shot
A crane shot is taken by a camera mounted on a jib or crane that moves up and down
pan
The camera moves right and left on a stationary tripod, and scans the visual horizontally.
tilt
Tilting is when you move the camera vertically, up to down or down to up, while its base is fixated to a certain point.
low key contrast ligtning
low-key lighting has greater contrast between the dark and light areas of the image with a majority of the scene in shadow.
High key/low contrast lightening
High-key lighting reduces the lighting ratio in the scene, meaning there’s less contrast between the darker tones and the brighter areas. Alternatively, low-key lighting has greater contrast between the dark and light areas of the image with a majority of the scene in shadow
cross cutting
Definition: Editing that alternates shots of two or more lines of action going on in different places usually simultaneously.
Identify: This is an editing film technique that lets more than one action be shown happening at the same time with cutting and editing.
Importance: This technique is important because it started a way to show many actions at once while in the first films they could not do that and only showed one action, this discovery changed how the film would be edited for the rest of time
fade in / fade out
Define the fade out is the slow fade of the picture from normal brightness to a black screen. A fade-in is the slow brightening from lack to normal brightness
dissolve
A transition between two shots during which the second image gradually appears as a superimposition until the two are evenly blended, and the first image gradually disappears.
