first half semester Flashcards
Non-sequential; editing that creates the illusion of multiple events simultaneously
Continuity editing
Sequential editing- shots put together in chronological order
Linear editing
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.
Director
What you see on screen
Frame
A shot sets the location for ensuring scenes
Establishing shot
The joining together of 2 pieces of film
Edit
Something in the near distances
ppl. usually waist up
Close up
180 degree difference from shot to shot, usually in conversations
Reverse angle shot
Very close, usually one body part on a person
Extreme close up
Something in the middle distance of the frame
ppl. usually knees/ waist up
Medium 2.3 etc. refer to number of population in shot
Medium shot
Something in the far distance said to replicate the proscenium of the stage
Long shot
Things in the extreme far distance
ppl. usually tiny
Extreme long shot
Shot from above, looking down at an angle
High angle shot
Shot from below, looking up from an angle
Low angle shot
Frame or camera is tilted/ diagonal
Tilt/ Oblique/ Dutch angle shot
Shot achieved via a lens that captures huge expensive space from side to side
*poor depth of field
Wide angle shot
Shows a character looking at something followed by a shot from eye-line level
Eye-line match
Shows objects, then react to object
Reaction shot
Shots from a plane
Aerial/ Heli shot
Shots from the point of view of a character
Point of view shot
Shots directly overhead looking straight down
Bird’s eye shot
Editing in which you see two parts 1 fading.
An edit in which one shot fades into another, but both shots are momentarily visible.
Lap dissolve
From black to image
From image to black
Fade in/ out
A regular image gets bigger and bigger or gets smaller and smaller
Iris in/ out
Obscures part of the image forced to look at one thing
Iris shot
The image stops on a singular frame
Freeze frame
Cut that skips time within the same scene, intentionally removing time
Jump cut
Hard/ Abrupt change, usually involved with motion or violence goes from one thing to another
Slam cut
An edit in which one image wipes off screen from another
Wipe
Cut from one scene to another, with similarly shaped objects occupying the same place in the frame
Match cut
Achieved through a lens that allows a cinematographer to change with wide angle and telephoto in one shot
Zoom in/ out
Camera turns in a circle either in or out
360 degree shot
Combining 2 or more shots into one and create the illusion of a singular shot
Matte shot
Film everything in a 180 degree spectrum, don’t cross over or image flips
180 degree rule
Shot from moving vehicle
Dolly/ Tracking shot
Pulls back from focal point of frame to reveal something else
Pull back dolly
Camera is tracked back while lens is zoomed in to keep focus on something
Dolly zoom
The camera is stationary, but twists to survey the scene
Pan
Pan so quickly it blurs the scene
Whip/ Swish/ Flash/ Zip pan
A shot achieved through a lens in which everything is in focus
Deep focus
A shot that is done by a person wearing a mount or harness
Steadicam shot
Audio from current scene bleeds into next scene
L cut
Audio of scene comes in before current scene cuts
J cut
Who is often credited with having invented linear editing?
Georges Méliès
Who is credited with having brought deep focus cinematographer to mainstream filmmaking?
Gregg Toland
The Big Five
1) MGM
2) Paramount
3) Warner Brothers
4) FOX
5) RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum)
Who is often credited with having invented continuity editing?
Edwin S. Porter
What separates the majors (the Big Five) from the minors (the Little Three)?
Ownership of cinema
The Little Three
1) Universal
2) United Artist
3) Columbia
What is credited with having led to the demise of the Studio System?
Paramount Decree of 1946
The Studio System rose to prominence because Hollywood studios controlled what three things?
1) Production
2) Distribution
3) Exhibition
About what kinds of films is it said that “boy meets girl, but girl gets boy?”
Screwball comedy
In whose film is evil typically portrayed as an inherent aspect of human nature?
Orson Welles
The five characteristics all genre films share in common are?
1) Iconography
2) Establishment
3) Animation
4) Intensification
5) Resolution
Whose films are characterized by cultured, urbane and witty scripts that often feature outrageously funny cameos?
Preston Sturges
Whose films are obsessed with the past and the ravages of time and feature mirror shots, long takes, and crane shots?
Orson Welles
The self- imposed rules of decorum to which films made during the studio era had to adhere are called?
Production Code or Hays Code
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?
Film Noir
