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first half semester Flashcards

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Non-sequential; editing that creates the illusion of multiple events simultaneously

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Continuity editing

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Sequential editing- shots put together in chronological order

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Linear editing

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The person who makes it all come together.
All the credit when right, no blame when wrong disingenuous to name one person when every film is a collaboration with hundreds of population.

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Director

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What you see on screen

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Frame

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A shot sets the location for ensuring scenes

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Establishing shot

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The joining together of 2 pieces of film

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Edit

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Something in the near distances

ppl. usually waist up

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Close up

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180 degree difference from shot to shot, usually in conversations

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Reverse angle shot

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Very close, usually one body part on a person

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Extreme close up

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Something in the middle distance of the frame

ppl. usually knees/ waist up

Medium 2.3 etc. refer to number of population in shot

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Medium shot

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Something in the far distance said to replicate the proscenium of the stage

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Long shot

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Things in the extreme far distance

ppl. usually tiny

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Extreme long shot

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13
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Shot from above, looking down at an angle

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High angle shot

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Shot from below, looking up from an angle

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Low angle shot

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Frame or camera is tilted/ diagonal

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Tilt/ Oblique/ Dutch angle shot

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Shot achieved via a lens that captures huge expensive space from side to side

*poor depth of field

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Wide angle shot

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Shows a character looking at something followed by a shot from eye-line level

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Eye-line match

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Shows objects, then react to object

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Reaction shot

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Shots from a plane

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Aerial/ Heli shot

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Shots from the point of view of a character

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Point of view shot

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21
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Shots directly overhead looking straight down

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Bird’s eye shot

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Editing in which you see two parts 1 fading.

An edit in which one shot fades into another, but both shots are momentarily visible.

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Lap dissolve

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23
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From black to image

From image to black

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Fade in/ out

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A regular image gets bigger and bigger or gets smaller and smaller

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Iris in/ out

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Obscures part of the image forced to look at one thing

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Iris shot

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The image stops on a singular frame

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Freeze frame

27
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Cut that skips time within the same scene, intentionally removing time

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Jump cut

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Hard/ Abrupt change, usually involved with motion or violence goes from one thing to another

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Slam cut

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An edit in which one image wipes off screen from another

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Wipe

30
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Cut from one scene to another, with similarly shaped objects occupying the same place in the frame

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Match cut

31
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Achieved through a lens that allows a cinematographer to change with wide angle and telephoto in one shot

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Zoom in/ out

32
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Camera turns in a circle either in or out

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360 degree shot

33
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Combining 2 or more shots into one and create the illusion of a singular shot

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Matte shot

34
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Film everything in a 180 degree spectrum, don’t cross over or image flips

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180 degree rule

35
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Shot from moving vehicle

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Dolly/ Tracking shot

36
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Pulls back from focal point of frame to reveal something else

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Pull back dolly

37
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Camera is tracked back while lens is zoomed in to keep focus on something

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Dolly zoom

38
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The camera is stationary, but twists to survey the scene

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Pan

39
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Pan so quickly it blurs the scene

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Whip/ Swish/ Flash/ Zip pan

40
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A shot achieved through a lens in which everything is in focus

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Deep focus

41
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A shot that is done by a person wearing a mount or harness

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Steadicam shot

42
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Audio from current scene bleeds into next scene

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L cut

43
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Audio of scene comes in before current scene cuts

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J cut

44
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Who is often credited with having invented linear editing?

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Georges Méliès

45
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Who is credited with having brought deep focus cinematographer to mainstream filmmaking?

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Gregg Toland

46
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The Big Five

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1) MGM
2) Paramount
3) Warner Brothers
4) FOX
5) RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum)

47
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Who is often credited with having invented continuity editing?

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Edwin S. Porter

48
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What separates the majors (the Big Five) from the minors (the Little Three)?

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Ownership of cinema

50
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The Little Three

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1) Universal
2) United Artist
3) Columbia

51
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What is credited with having led to the demise of the Studio System?

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Paramount Decree of 1946

52
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The Studio System rose to prominence because Hollywood studios controlled what three things?

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1) Production
2) Distribution
3) Exhibition

53
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About what kinds of films is it said that “boy meets girl, but girl gets boy?”

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Screwball comedy

54
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In whose film is evil typically portrayed as an inherent aspect of human nature?

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Orson Welles

55
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The five characteristics all genre films share in common are?

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1) Iconography
2) Establishment
3) Animation
4) Intensification
5) Resolution

56
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Whose films are characterized by cultured, urbane and witty scripts that often feature outrageously funny cameos?

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Preston Sturges

57
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Whose films are obsessed with the past and the ravages of time and feature mirror shots, long takes, and crane shots?

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Orson Welles

58
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The self- imposed rules of decorum to which films made during the studio era had to adhere are called?

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Production Code or Hays Code

59
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The idea that all of us, given the right set of circumstances, are capable of terrible deeds is a characteristic of what kinds of films?

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Film Noir

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