Motion Pictures Test 2 Flashcards
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
Mise-en-scene
the process by which the look of the settings, props, lighting, and actors is determined
Design
the organization, distribution, balance, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of each shot
Composition
Functions of Design: (4)
Expresses a movies vision, Creates a convincing sense of time, space, and moods, suggests a characters state of mind, relates to developing themes.
Person responsible for the overall design concept of a movie, hired to work with the director and director of photography.
Production Designer
Design Departments: (7)
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
Most important elements of design: (3)
Setting decor and properties, lighting, and costume makeup and wardrobe.
the spatial and temporal environment (realistic or imagined) in which the narrative takes place
Setting
the color and textures of the interior decoration, furniture, draperies, curtains
Decor
objects that help us understand the characters by showing us their preferences in such things
Properties, props
A windowless, soundproofed, professional shooting environment
Soundstage
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
Lighting
Contributes to the setting and suggests specific character traits, the clothing worn by an actor in a movie
Costume, Makeup, and Hairstyle
Style of Design: nonfiction,short, realistic depictions of everyday activities
Realistic
Style of Design: used stage tricks, mechanisms, and a variety of cinematic effects
Fantastic
The general relationship of figures, stationary objects, light, shadow, line, and color within the frame
Composition
What we see on the screen
Framing
What moves on screen
Kinesis
Framing implies:
POV
POV can be:
omniscient, subjective, or ambigious
Depict a world where characters move freely within an open, recognizable environment
Open Frames
Imply that other forces have robbed characters of their ability to move and act freely
Closed Frames
anything concrete within the frame (object, animal, person)
Figure
planning the positions and movements of the actors and the cameras
Blocking
The process of capturing moving images on film or a digital storage device, coined after motion pictures and means “writing movement with light”
Cinematography
one uninterrupted run of the camera
Shot
the number of times a particular shot is taken
Take
one camera position and everything associated with it
Setup
the primary person responsible for transforming the other aspects of movie making into moving images
Director of Photography
Responsibilities of Director of Photography (4)
cinematographic properties of the shot, framing of the shot, speed and length of the shot, special effects
Does the actual shooting
Camera Operator
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
Assistant camerapersons
Film gauges
8 mm, Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, 65mm, 70mm, IMAX
Standard Color film stock today
Kodak’s Eastman Color system
Lighting: designers include an idea of the lighting in their sketches
Preproduction
Lighting: the cinematographer determines the lighting once the camera setups are chosen
Production
Properties of lighting: (4)
Source, Quality, Direction, Style
Lighting: reflector boards, a device used to help control light
Natural Light
Lighting: focusable spotlights and floodlights
Artificial Light
Lighting: shining directly on the subject, creating crisp details, ratio between lights and darks is
harsh
Hard lighting: Low-key
Diffused; light hits the subject from many directions, very little contrast between darks and lights
Soft lighting: High-key
balance between key and fill
Lighting ratio
a primary property of light
Color
the amount and quality of human and physical resources devoted to the image determines a film’s overall style
Production values
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
Lens
distances in front of a camera and its lens in which the subjects are in apparent sharp focus
Depth of Field
Four major lenses:
Short-focal-length, long-focal-length, middle-focal-length, and zoom
changes the point of focus from one subject to another
Rack Focus
Academy aspect ratio
1.33:1
American Widescreen aspect ratio
1.85:1
Panavision and cinemaScope aspect ratio
2.35:1
Picture of the place people are, not of their figure, etc
Extreme Long Shot
Picture of one or more full figures
Long Shot
Picture from the knees up
Medium long shot
Picture from the waste up
Medium Shot
Picture mid-chest to top of head
Medium close-up
Picture of face
Close-Up
Very small detail of figure
Extreme close-up
Camera angles: (5)
Eye level, High angle, low angle, dutch angle, scope
Eye level photo
Picture where we are all at eye level
high angle photo
Camera is up looking down
low angle photo
camera is down looking up
dutch angle photo
Photo crooked to left or right side slightly
scope picture
Picture that exaggerates the scale of something such as building to person etc
the vertical movement of a camera mounted on a stationary tripod
Tilt Shot
The horizontal movement of a camera mounted on a stationary tripod
Pan shot
Shot taken by a camera fixed to a wheeled support
Dolly shot
Made from a camera mounted on an elevating arm that is mounted on a vehicle
Crane shot
a device attached to the operator’s body that steadies the camera and is used for smooth, fast, and intimate camera movement
Steadicam
Technology that creates images that would be too
dangerous, too expensive, or simply impossible to
achieve with traditional cinematographic materials
Special Effects
created in the production camera, on the regular negative
In-camera effects
objects or events created Special Effects (SPFX / FX)
mechanically on the set and in front of the camera
mechanical effects
created on a fresh piece of film stock
Laboratory effects
Allows movies to be set in wholly imagined places, first used in early 1970s
Computer generated imagery (CGI)
