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Midterm - Camera Flashcards

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Cinematography

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The way a shot is filmed and the way the image is manipulated

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Film Stock

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Type of film used; affects contrast and color

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Color Timer/Grader

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Person who processes film in a lab; has control over how film is processed and can affect coloring in this way. Also can be done on computer.

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Exposure

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How much light passes through the lens

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Filters

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Slices of glass/gelatin that change the coloration of a shot

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Shot Types; Long-Extreme, Long, Medium, Close-Up, Extreme Close-Up

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Humans are barely visible and can’t see faces; Can see full body (not just people) and some space, can make out clothes and faces; can see about half of body of subject; can usually see only face; can only see part of a body part

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Establishing Shot

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Shot that establishes place, time, the subjects and the arrangement of a scene

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Tracking/Dolly Shot

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Shot that follows something/one around a scene, maintaining a certain distance

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Low vs high angle

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Below subject; above subject

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Tilt Shot

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Camera literally tilts up and down while shooting, up = camera tilts up, down = camera tilts down

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Pan

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Short for panorama, camera turns left or right, i;e pan left = camera turns left

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Crane Shot

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Whole camera moves up and down

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Canted/Dutch Angle

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Camera is tilted so the shot appears to be on a diagonal

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Telephoto Lens

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Compresses space front-to-back; 75 to 250mm or more; “flattens” a scene and makes large distances appear small

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Wide-Angle Lens

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Emphasizes size and distance in a scene, but makes center appears curved and bulbous; less then 35mm in focal length

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Zoom

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Camera magnifies in on something in a shot

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Shallow vs Deep Depth of Field

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Shallow means only one thing in focus; deep means everything is

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Expressionism

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Formal elements of cinema that create psychological connection in viewers

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Film Stock Speed

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32-3200; fast is sharp and low is grainy; 400 would be fast

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Available Light

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Light in a scene that exists without equipment

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Shutter Speed

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1/1000 very sharp and quick to 1/60 which is the limit and very slow and blurry

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Aperture

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How much light hits film; F22 is small and F2.8 is big

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Low vs High Contrast

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Low = colors don’t stand out against each other as much and involved grey in black and white films; high uses sharp differences and lots of black and white

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Day-For-Night Shooting

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Making shots appear as if they are at night

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Film Flashing

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Exposing film to light before shooting; lowers contrast

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Speed of Motion

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How fast something on screen appears to move; depends on frames per second

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Rate of Film Speed

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Two kinds; rate at which film was shot and rate of projection; standard is 24 FPS but silent films used 16-20

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Fast vs Slow Motion

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Fast = something moves unusually quickly; slow = everything slowed down

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Ramping

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Adjusting film speeds in post for an effect

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Normal/Medium Lens

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Does not affect film appearance; 35 to 50mm in length

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Time-Lapse Cinematography

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Filming that rapidly speeds up events; shows long-term events very quickly i;e a flower blooming; very low shooting speed

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High-Speed Cinematography

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Filming that shows a quick event very slowly in detail; shoots extremely quickly

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Stretch Printing

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Reprinting frames in a film to slow down motion

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Lens

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Part of a camera that takes in the shot

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Zoom Lens

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Allows varying focal length while shooting and enables zoom shots

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Focus

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How sharp a shot is; low focus is blurry and fuzzy

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Rack Focus

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Changing focus in one shot

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Special Effects

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Effects imposed upon a film that are not in the scene while filming

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Superimposition

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Laying one image over another

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Process/Composite Shots

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Combining shots into one for an effect

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Rear vs Front Projection

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Projected behind actors, not very convincing; projected using a mirror frontally, more convincing

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Matte Work, Traveling Matte and Matte Line

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A portion of the image being added separately from filming to the actors; traveling mattes cut the actors out of background and insert them into the mattes; contour around matted-in actors

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Glass Shot

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Old SFX technique that filmed the scene through painted glass

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Framing and Mobile Framing

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How a shot is fit into the bordering of a film frame by positioning of the camera; mobile framing involves movement in the framing of the scene mid-shot

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Aspect Ratios

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Ratio of width to length in frames; old-school Academy ratio was 1:33:1, today most common in North America is 1:85:1; some European ratios include 1:66:1 and 1:75:1; 2:35:1 was anamorphic and 2:2:1 is usually used for 70mm film

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Anamorphic Process

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Process that squeezes image during shooting and is unsqueezed during projection

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Masking, Film Masks and Iris

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Adding black bars to image to create widescreen; can be digital or physical; film masks change the shape of the frame by putting objects over the lens; Irises are circles that open or close on a scene

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Multiple-Frame/Split-Screen

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Shot that has multiple images ongoing at once

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Six Zones of Offscreen Space

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Around four edges of the image and behind the set and camera, this space can be used for surprise, suspense, comedy and more

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POV Shot

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Shot as if from a character’s perspectivr

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Steadicam

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A special camera mount that allows movement without affecting shot

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Motion-control

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Techniques and programs that plot and control camera movement

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Hand-held Camera

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Camera that is very unsteady and shaky as it has no mount or stabilizing equipment; used in action scenes, documentaries, found-footage, etc

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Reframing

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Adjusting a shot via motion to account for movement of a character or subject

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Following Shot

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Shot that follows the movement of a character or object, includes pans, tracking shots, crane shots or any shot that follows something

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Track-out and Zoom-in Technique

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Shooting trick that makes image change distance, framing and more quickly; famously used in Vertigo and Jaws

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Long Take

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Unusually long shot in time without cuts

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Plan-Sequence

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French term for a scene done entirely in one shot

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