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Motion Pictures Test 2 Flashcards

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French term for staging or putting on an action or scene, Refers to the overall look and feel of a movie, The sum of everything the audience sees and hears (sound) and experiences while viewing it

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Mise-en-scene

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the process by which the look of the settings, props, lighting, and actors is determined

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Design

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the organization, distribution, balance, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of each shot

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Composition

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Functions of Design: (4)

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Expresses a movies vision, Creates a convincing sense of time, space, and moods, suggests a characters state of mind, relates to developing themes.

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Person responsible for the overall design concept of a movie, hired to work with the director and director of photography.

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Production Designer

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Design Departments: (7)

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Art, Costume Design and Construction, Makeup hairstyling and wardrobe, location and properties, carpentry set production and decoration, greenery and transportation, and visual effects and special effects

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Most important elements of design: (3)

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Setting decor and properties, lighting, and costume makeup and wardrobe.

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the spatial and temporal environment (realistic or imagined) in which the narrative takes place

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Setting

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the color and textures of the interior decoration, furniture, draperies, curtains

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Decor

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objects that help us understand the characters by showing us their preferences in such things

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Properties, props

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A windowless, soundproofed, professional shooting environment

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Soundstage

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Guides viewers’ eyes through the moving image and helps tell the movie story, Calls attention to shapes and textures; shadows may mask or conceal things, and Light is controlled and manipulated to achieve expressive effects

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Lighting

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Contributes to the setting and suggests specific character traits, the clothing worn by an actor in a movie

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Costume, Makeup, and Hairstyle

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Style of Design: nonfiction,short, realistic depictions of everyday activities

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Realistic

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Style of Design: used stage tricks, mechanisms, and a variety of cinematic effects

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Fantastic

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The general relationship of figures, stationary objects, light, shadow, line, and color within the frame

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Composition

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What we see on the screen

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Framing

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What moves on screen

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Kinesis

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19
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Framing implies:

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POV

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POV can be:

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omniscient, subjective, or ambigious

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Depict a world where characters move freely within an open, recognizable environment

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Open Frames

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Imply that other forces have robbed characters of their ability to move and act freely

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Closed Frames

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anything concrete within the frame (object, animal, person)

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Figure

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planning the positions and movements of the actors and the cameras

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Blocking

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The process of capturing moving images on film or a digital storage device, coined after motion pictures and means “writing movement with light”

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Cinematography

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one uninterrupted run of the camera

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Shot

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the number of times a particular shot is taken

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Take

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one camera position and everything associated with it

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Setup

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29
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the primary person responsible for transforming the other aspects of movie making into moving images

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Director of Photography

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Responsibilities of Director of Photography (4)

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cinematographic properties of the shot, framing of the shot, speed and length of the shot, special effects

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Does the actual shooting

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Camera Operator

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oversees the camera lens, supporting equipment, and the material on which the movie is being shot, prepares the slate, files the reports, fills the magazines, and loads the camera

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Assistant camerapersons

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Film gauges

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8 mm, Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, 65mm, 70mm, IMAX

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Standard Color film stock today

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Kodak’s Eastman Color system

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Lighting: designers include an idea of the lighting in their sketches

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Preproduction

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Lighting: the cinematographer determines the lighting once the camera setups are chosen

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Production

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Properties of lighting: (4)

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Source, Quality, Direction, Style

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Lighting: reflector boards, a device used to help control light

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Natural Light

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Lighting: focusable spotlights and floodlights

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Artificial Light

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Lighting: shining directly on the subject, creating crisp details, ratio between lights and darks is
harsh

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Hard lighting: Low-key

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Diffused; light hits the subject from many directions, very little contrast between darks and lights

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Soft lighting: High-key

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balance between key and fill

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Lighting ratio

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a primary property of light

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Color

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the amount and quality of human and physical resources devoted to the image determines a film’s overall style

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Production values

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the camera’s “eye,” whose primary function is to bring the light that emanates from the camera’s subjects into a focused image for the camera’s recording medium

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Lens

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distances in front of a camera and its lens in which the subjects are in apparent sharp focus

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Depth of Field

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Four major lenses:

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Short-focal-length, long-focal-length, middle-focal-length, and zoom

48
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changes the point of focus from one subject to another

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Rack Focus

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Academy aspect ratio

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1.33:1

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American Widescreen aspect ratio

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1.85:1

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Panavision and cinemaScope aspect ratio

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2.35:1

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Picture of the place people are, not of their figure, etc

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Extreme Long Shot

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Picture of one or more full figures

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Long Shot

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Picture from the knees up

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Medium long shot

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Picture from the waste up

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Medium Shot

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Picture mid-chest to top of head

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Medium close-up

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Picture of face

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Close-Up

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Very small detail of figure

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Extreme close-up

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Camera angles: (5)

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Eye level, High angle, low angle, dutch angle, scope

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Eye level photo

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Picture where we are all at eye level

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high angle photo

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Camera is up looking down

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low angle photo

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camera is down looking up

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dutch angle photo

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Photo crooked to left or right side slightly

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scope picture

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Picture that exaggerates the scale of something such as building to person etc

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the vertical movement of a camera mounted on a stationary tripod

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Tilt Shot

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The horizontal movement of a camera mounted on a stationary tripod

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Pan shot

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Shot taken by a camera fixed to a wheeled support

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Dolly shot

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Made from a camera mounted on an elevating arm that is mounted on a vehicle

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Crane shot

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a device attached to the operator’s body that steadies the camera and is used for smooth, fast, and intimate camera movement

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Steadicam

70
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Technology that creates images that would be too
dangerous, too expensive, or simply impossible to
achieve with traditional cinematographic materials

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Special Effects

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created in the production camera, on the regular negative

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In-camera effects

72
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objects or events created Special Effects (SPFX / FX)

mechanically on the set and in front of the camera

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mechanical effects

73
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created on a fresh piece of film stock

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Laboratory effects

74
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Allows movies to be set in wholly imagined places, first used in early 1970s

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Computer generated imagery (CGI)

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