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Question 1

Auteur

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Diagesis

Answer 2

The world within the film

Question 3

Flashback/Flashforward

Answer 3

Jump forwards or backwards within diagetic time

Question 4

Mise-en-scene

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Story and Plot (fabula and syuzhet)

Answer 5

Story is more extensive, plot is basic analysis

Question 6

Three-point lighting

Answer 6

Standard lighting. Back light, Key light, Fill light

Question 7

High-key lighting

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Low-key lighting

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Deep space

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Shallow space

Answer 10

Image is stayed with little depth

Question 11

Color

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Contrast

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Deep focus

Answer 13

Different planes of image are given equal importance from focus

Question 14

Shallow focus

Answer 14

Only one kind of plane is in sharp focus

Question 15

Depth of field

Answer 15

Distance where elements are in sharp focus

Question 16

Racking focus

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Zoom shot

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Framing

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Angle of framing

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Level of framing

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Canted (Dutch) framing

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Following shot

Answer 22

Shot with framing that shifts to keep a moving figure onscreen

Question 23

Reframing

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Point-of-view shot

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Scale

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Length of take

Answer 26

Shot with duration that depends on conventional editing piece

Question 27

Crane shot

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Hand-held camera, steady camera

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Pan

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Tracking shot

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Transitions

Answer 31

Fade, dissolve, wipe

Question 32

Cross cutting (parallel editing)

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Cut-in and Cut-away

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Jump cut

Answer 34

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

Question 35

Establishing/reestablishing shot

Answer 35

Shot usually involving distant framing that shows spatial relations

Question 36

Shot/Reverse shot

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Eyeline match

Answer 37

Matches eyeline between subjects (Cameron's painting scene)

Question 38

Graphic match

Answer 38

Two joints joined to create simliarity of compositional elements

Question 39

Match on action

Answer 39

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

Question 40

Continuity/discontinuity editing

Answer 40

Cutting to maintain continuous/discontinuous narrative action

Question 41

Montage (Hollywood vs. Soviet)

Answer 41

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

Question 42

Sound bridge

Answer 42

Sound that leads in or out of the scene

Question 43

Diagetic/Non-diagetic sound

Answer 43

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

Question 44

Direct Sound

Answer 44

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