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1
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frame

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Aspect Ratio

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2
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Recording lots of shots of a scene in case certain shots do not work out

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Coverage

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3
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Framing convention often used that favors one side over the other

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Rule of Thirds

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4
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Using light to create form

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Modeling

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5
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Something that appears throughout (word derived from music)

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Motif

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6
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With serif (lines)

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Serif

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7
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Without serif (without lines)

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Sans Serif

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8
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Line that appears to go through the camera

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Z-Axis

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9
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Cues that signal that something has depth

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Depth Cues (Atmospheric Haze, Lighting, Size, Vanishing Point)

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10
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Filtering sound (notch a specific part of the sound spectrum)

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Equalization (EQ)

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11
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Sound heard before a scene

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J-Cut

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12
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Sound of first scene continues into another scene

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L-Cut

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13
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Pictures turned into a movie, (ex. La Jetee)

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Photo Montage

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14
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Point in the middle of a painting/photograph where lines converge

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Vanishing Point

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15
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Drawing method that utilizes vanishing point, seen in classical renaissance paintings

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One-Point Perspective

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16
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Artistic movement that uses multiple perspectives in paintings

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Cubism

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17
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What someone sees

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Point of View (POV)

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18
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Everything/almost everything is in focus

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Deep Focus

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19
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Very little is in focus, picture can appear flat

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Shallow Focus

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20
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Distance between the camera’s lens and sensor

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Focal Length

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21
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Wide lens, takes in a wide field of view, small focal length

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Wide Angle

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22
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Tighter lens, long focal lens, makes people appear closer, distortion

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Telephoto

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23
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Distortion created by wide angle lenses where objects on the edges of the image appear curved

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Wide Angle Distortion

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24
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French term for editing

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Montage

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25
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Reds and Yellows

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Warm Color Palette

26
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Blues and Greens

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Cool Color Palette

27
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colors come from additive primary colors (cyan, magenta, and yellow)

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Subtractive Primary Colors

28
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Colors coming from the sun (red, green, and blue)

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Additive Primary Colors

29
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Adjusting to color temperature as cameras do not adjust to different light sources well

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White Balance

30
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Red: Cyan, Green: Magenta, Blue: Yellow, additive colors vs. subtractive colors

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Opposite Colors

31
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Vibrancy of colors, colors are vibrant

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Saturation

32
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Colors are less vibrant

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Desaturation

33
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Scale by which we determine how warm vs. cool light is, Warm vs. cool lighting (flourescent light vs. candlelight), measures in Kelvins

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Color Temperature

34
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Tigher (more frequent) = higher pitch, spread out (less frequent) = lower pitch

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Wavelength

35
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The pitch of (a) sound(s)

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Frequency

36
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Volume of the sound

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Amplitude

37
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Distinctive flavor that makes someones voice unique

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Timbre

38
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Subtle form of an echo

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Reverb

39
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Ex. a vinyl, sound is recorded as wavelengths

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Analog recording

40
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Ex. recorded on zoom microphone, sound is recorded as numbers

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Digital Recording

41
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The rate at which you record sound, high rate = good recording

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Sample Rate

42
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Voiceover, anything to do with voice

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Dialogue

43
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Score, source music

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Music

44
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Subtle and distinctive sound of a place, evokes mood

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Ambience

45
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Sound Effects

46
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Subtle sound of a room

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Room Tone

47
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Music happening/shown in the scene

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Source Music

48
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To evoke continuity/discontinuity, emotional states, dramatic action

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Motivated Camera Movement

49
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Line governeed by an actor’s nose, ensures continuity and prevents viewers from feeling disoriented

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180 Degree Line (Stage Line)

50
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Where actors will be/move, ensures continuity

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Screen Direction (Blocking)

51
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Shooting from the opposite side of the previous shot

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Shot/Reverse Shot

52
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Matching Angles

53
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Some detail in the scene you want to reveal

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Insert

54
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Ex. Cut to the source of a sound heard in the scene

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Cutaway

55
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Shooting a scene with the camera over a character’s shoulder

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Over-the-Shoulder

56
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Shooting a shot where something is blocking the shot

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Dirty Single

57
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Translating an emotional state, giving an actor a goal

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Dramatic Action

58
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Derived from acting, written in scripts to indicate when there are moments of redirection

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Dramatic Beats

59
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Choices made to complicate, engage, or deepen the audience’s understanding

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Dramatic stakes and “raising the stakes”

60
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Narrative twists vs. familiar narrative patterns

61
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Jarring cut that is shot from a location that did not change much from the previous shot, evokes a sense of disontinuity, evokes a feeling that something is off

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Jump Cut

62
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Compositional headroom vs. sound headroom

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Head Room

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