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Quiz #2 Flashcards

1
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Visions of Light

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Arnold Glassman (1993)

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2
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Important duo from visions of light

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Gregg Toland and Orson Welles

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3
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Four factors in every shot

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  • framing
  • depth of field
  • color
  • movement
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4
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Framing

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The use of edges to determine what will be visible on screen

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5
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What does framing define?

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mise-en-scene

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Aspect Ratio

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ratio of width to height

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7
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camera…

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  • angle
  • level/balance
  • height
  • distance
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Depth of Field

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range of distances before the lens within which objects are in sharp focus

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9
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Depths of Field

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  • deep
  • shallow
  • racking
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10
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Deep depth

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window in Citizen Kane (1941)

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Shallow depth

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Se7en (1995)

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12
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Racking depth

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shift from front to back or vice versa

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13
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Color

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comprised of color and tone

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14
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Color: color

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the spectrum of colors and hues

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15
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Color: tone

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the shading and saturation, of the colors

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16
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Camera Movements

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  • pan
  • tilt
  • tracking
  • crane
17
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Pan

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left to right axis

18
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Tilt

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up and down axis

19
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Tracking/Dolly Shot

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forward/back or in/out

20
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Crane shot

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shot with a crane

21
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Duration

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how long a shot lasts

22
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Four Methods of Joining Shots

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  • cut
  • fade
  • dissolve
  • wipe
23
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Four Basic Areas of Editing

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  • graphic
  • rhythmic
  • spatial
  • temporal
24
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Graphic

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concerned with editing together the pictorial qualities of two shots (ex: bone to spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968))

25
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Rhythmic

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when a discernible pattern emerges, editing has its own visual “beat” or tempo

26
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Spatial

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editors can juxtapose any two points in space and time

27
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Establishing Shot

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defines overall space

28
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Temporal

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manipulation of our experience of story time through editing

  • flashback
  • flashforward
  • elliptical editing
  • overlapping editing
29
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Elliptical Editing

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suggests more time actually goes by in a story that is presented on screen (skipping the boring parts)

30
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Overlapping Editing

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action from one shot partially repeated in next shot, expands story time

31
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Run Lola Run

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Tom Tykwer (1998)
Editor: Mathilde Bonnefoy

32
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The Player

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Robert Altman (1992)

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