terms Flashcards

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Auteur

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Filmmaker whose personal influence and artistic control is so grand that they’re seen as the author

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2
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Diagesis

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The world within the film

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3
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Flashback/Flashforward

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Jump forwards or backwards within diagetic time

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Mise-en-scene

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The set of the shot (decor, setting, lighting, etc.)

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Story and Plot (fabula and syuzhet)

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Story is more extensive, plot is basic analysis

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Three-point lighting

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Standard lighting. Back light, Key light, Fill light

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High-key lighting

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Fill light is raised to almost same level as Key ligh. Few shadows, very bright image

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Low-key lighting

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Very little Fill light, creates strong contast between lights and darks (film noir)

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Deep space

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Significant elements of image are positioned near and distant from camera, objects do not have to be in focus

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Shallow space

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Image is stayed with little depth

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Color

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Added realism, creates aesthetic patterns and establishes character or emotion in cinema

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Contrast

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Ratio of dark to light in an image. If difference is big, it is ‘high contrast,’ associated with lowkey lighting

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Deep focus

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Different planes of image are given equal importance from focus

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Shallow focus

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Only one kind of plane is in sharp focus

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Depth of field

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Distance where elements are in sharp focus

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Racking focus

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Changing focus of a lens so an element in one plane goes out of focus and one in another comes into focus

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17
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Zoom shot

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Lens with several elements to change focal length of lens (zoom in)

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Framing

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Includes or excludes aspcects of what occurs in front of the camera

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Angle of framing

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Filming from a position that is significantly higher or lower than the subject

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Level of framing

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Camera placed close to ground or above subject, signifies sympathy and creates nice compositions

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Canted (Dutch) framing

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View where framae is not level, either left or right side is lower than the other

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Following shot

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Shot with framing that shifts to keep a moving figure onscreen

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Reframing

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Slight panning or tilting to keep up with subjects’ movements on screen

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Point-of-view shot

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Shot taken where subjects’ eyes would be, seeing what they see

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Scale

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Extreme long shot, long shot, medium long shot, medium close-up, close-up, extreme close-up

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Length of take

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Shot with duration that depends on conventional editing piece

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Crane shot

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Shot with change in framing because camera is above ground and moving through air

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Hand-held camera, steady camera

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Unstable, jerky feel, greater degree of movement, camera operator moving with the action

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Pan

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Camera movement with the camera body turning to the right or left

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Tracking shot

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Mobile framing that travels through space forward, backward, or laterally

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Transitions

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Fade, dissolve, wipe

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Cross cutting (parallel editing)

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Editing that alternates shots of two or more lines of action happening in different places at the same time

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Cut-in and Cut-away

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Instant shift from distant framing to closer view of the same space, and vice versa

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Jump cut

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Rupture with mainstream film storytelling, utterances of articiality and difficulties of telling a story

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Establishing/reestablishing shot

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Shot usually involving distant framing that shows spatial relations

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Shot/Reverse shot

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Two+ shots edited together that alternate characters, typically in a conversation situation

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Eyeline match

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Matches eyeline between subjects (Cameron’s painting scene)

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Graphic match

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Two joints joined to create simliarity of compositional elements

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Match on action

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Adds variety, conveys two movements- one on the screen and one implied by viewer

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Continuity/discontinuity editing

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Cutting to maintain continuous/discontinuous narrative action

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Montage (Hollywood vs. Soviet)

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Dynamic, discontiuous relationships between shots to create ideas (SOVIET) Shots intercutting different tones (HOLLYWOOD)

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Sound bridge

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Sound that leads in or out of the scene

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Diagetic/Non-diagetic sound

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Sound that originates within the film’s world vs. outside of the film’s world

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Direct Sound

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Sound that is recorded the moment of filming (not dubbing)