Quiz #2 Flashcards
Visions of Light
Arnold Glassman (1993)
Important duo from visions of light
Gregg Toland and Orson Welles
Four factors in every shot
- framing
- depth of field
- color
- movement
Framing
The use of edges to determine what will be visible on screen
What does framing define?
mise-en-scene
Aspect Ratio
ratio of width to height
camera…
- angle
- level/balance
- height
- distance
Depth of Field
range of distances before the lens within which objects are in sharp focus
Depths of Field
- deep
- shallow
- racking
Deep depth
window in Citizen Kane (1941)
Shallow depth
Se7en (1995)
Racking depth
shift from front to back or vice versa
Color
comprised of color and tone
Color: color
the spectrum of colors and hues
Color: tone
the shading and saturation, of the colors
Camera Movements
- pan
- tilt
- tracking
- crane
Pan
left to right axis
Tilt
up and down axis
Tracking/Dolly Shot
forward/back or in/out
Crane shot
shot with a crane
Duration
how long a shot lasts
Four Methods of Joining Shots
- cut
- fade
- dissolve
- wipe
Four Basic Areas of Editing
- graphic
- rhythmic
- spatial
- temporal
Graphic
concerned with editing together the pictorial qualities of two shots (ex: bone to spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968))
