Quiz 3 Flashcards
Transitions
Cut Dissolve Fade Wipe Generated effects
Editing
The process of organizing, selecting, and arranging shots in a particular order.
Our Time
Objective and Subjective Time
Story world’s time
Narrative Time
Objective Time
Measured quantitatively (seconds, minutes, hours) An objective fact (based on a known measuring system)
Subjective Time
Measured qualitatively (long, short, fast, slow) A sense of passage/duration
Narrative Time (diegetic time)
The story world’s own objective and subjective times.
Describes the time span implied by the “story”
Scene
An uninterrupted series of related shots within a specific location
Sequence
An uninterrupted series of related scenes
Ellipsis of time
A form of time manipulation that leaves out portions of a narrative by employing various editing techniques such as cuts, dissolves, fades, etc.
The Illusion of Real-Time
The practice of assembling a sequence of successive shots in such an order that both objective time (ours) within diegesis appear to be in sync
Continuity
A continuous sense of events as we move from shot to shot.
Different kinds of continuity
Time Space Motion Sound Content
Continuity Editing
A style of editing concerned with a continuous sense of events as we move from shot to shot
Ellipsis is not…
Opposed to continuity! But Ellipsis IS opposed to the illusion of real-time.