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midterm Flashcards

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*The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

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German Expressionism Robert Wiene, 1921 Germany

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*Man with a Movie Camera BOLD

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Soviet Montage, Dziga Vertov, USSR1929

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*The Circus BOLD

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Charlie Chaplin, US, 1928, Classical Hollywood
might be late silent era

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Regeneration

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Race film, Classical HollywoodRichard E. Norman, 1923

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*Singin’ in the Rain BOLD

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Stanley Donen, US, 1952, Classical Hollywood

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*Suspense BOLD

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Cinema of Attractions Lois Weber, 1913

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The Great train Robbery

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Cinema of Attractions, Edwin S Porter, US, 1903

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The Cameraman’s revenge.

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Cinema of Attractions Ladislaw Starevich, Russia, 1912

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Madame’s Cravings

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Alice Guy, France, 1906 Cinema of attraction

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*Zero for Conduct BOLD

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Jean Vigo, france, 1933

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Youth of the World

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Carl Junghans, Germany, 1936

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The Stolen Heart

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Lotte Reiniger, Germany 1934

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Editing

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prepare for publication by correcting, or modifying.
important bc makes film more put together and ready for the public
ex.
In filmmaking, the task of selecting and joining camera takes. Also finished film, the set of techniques that govern the relations among shots.

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Continuity Editing

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A system of cutting to maintain continuous and clear narrative action.
Focus on narrative storytelling
important because it hides cuts

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Eyeline Match

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Character looks to an off screen object then cuts to that object

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Match on Action

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A cut that joins two shots of the same movement making it appear seemless
Follows continuous visual resemblance or similarity

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Graphic Match

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Two successive shots joined to create a strong similarity of compositional elements
Motivated by visual resemblance or similariy

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Shor/reverse shot

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Alternates between characters looking at each other

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Cross cutting(parallel editing)

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Cutting between two or more spaces where actions are unfolding simultaneously.
Suspense car chase

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180 degree rule

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Camera cannot pass 180 degrees

circus tight rope scene

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Kuleshov effect

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how viewers can extract more meaning from the interaction of two connected shots

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Mise en scene

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All the elements placed in front of the camera to be photographed: setting, prop, lighting, costume, make up, and actor placement
Stage design and the arrangement of actors in the scene
Dr Caligari

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3 point lighting system

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using three directions of light on a scene.
Backlighting: from behind subject.
Key light: one bright source
Fill light: less bright source

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Color

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A trip to the moon. Film was dyed to give the film color

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Stop motion animation

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Films physical objects by capturing them one frame at a time and playing them back rapidly
The cameraman’s revenge

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Vertical Integration

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Hollywoods studios attained absolute control over all phases of Folm production, distribution and exhibition

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Diegetic

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Any sound presented as origination from a source withing the film’s wold

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Non diegetic

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Any sound the originates outside of the film’s world
Singin in the rain - make them laugh sound effects

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Panning/Tilting

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Rotating Camera while mounted on a tripod
Pan is from left to right
Tilt is up and down

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Tracking shot

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Mounted camera moves through space in a horizontal path

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Cinema of Attractions

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Early filmmaking from 1894-1906
Narrative was not dominant. Ability to show something happening

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Kinetoscope

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Peep hole machine for viewing moving images

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Lumiere Cinematographe

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Early film device emphasis on life and movement

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Soviet montage

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Radical use of film editing to create new intellectual, sumbolic, and ideological meaning though the jarring relationship between different shots
1920s

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Dialectical Montage

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Stages a disruptive collision between different shots to provoke an intense emotional impact and intellectual contemplations

a montage effect. In which the juxtaposition of two shots that each reflect conflict are paired together.

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French Impressionism

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Camerawork can represent emotional inner experience of characters more interested in character psychology and subjective interiority

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German Expressionism

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Big focus on Mise en scene as a vehicle for expressing a deeper emotional reality
response to alienation, shell shock, trauma

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Jump Cut

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Elliptical cut that appears to be an interruption of a single shot

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Cinematography

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Motion-picture photography
The art of making motion pictures

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Long shot

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A framing which the scale of the object is shown small.
A human figure would appear entirely within the frame

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Medium shot

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A framing in which the scale of the object shown is of moderate size
A human figure from waist up fill most of the screen

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Close-up

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A framing in which the object shown is relatively large.
Neck up of human

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Long take

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A shot that continues for an unusually lengthy time.

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Acousmatic

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Sounds we hear without seeing their originating cause

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Talkie

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A movie with a sound track
Era of awkward transition to sound.
1927-1934

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Benshi

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Japanese performers who provided live narration for silent films

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BFI Sight and Sound Poll

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Internationally renowned film magazine poll that ranks best movies of all time
BFI-British Film Institute

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Silent Cinema

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Silent films take on basic features of classical narrative form. Rise of the feature film.
1917-1927

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Average Length Shot

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Average duration of a shot between cuts in a film

50
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narrative clarity

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Stories end up being told the same way, to make the it easier for the audience

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Intertitle

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a word or group of words that appear on screen during a movie but not apart of the scene

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Contrapuntal sound

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sounds that are used in deliberate contrast to the action shown on the screen

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Sound continuity vs sound montage

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Discontinuity sound uses a montage or sound collage. In which sounds are put together in no particular order or organization. Continuity sound uses a sound bridge so that there is a natural connection of sounds from one to the next.

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