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Building block of cinema

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shot

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What is cinematography

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art of capturing moving images

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first ac responsibilities

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pulls focus

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DP responsibilities

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Camera and lighting decisions

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take

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each time a planned shot is captured

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setup

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one camera position and everything asociated with it

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shot

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unbroken span of action captured by a single camera

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Standard format or gauge for productions

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35mm

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What does the speed variable of film stock control?

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Exposure index- slow film stocks require more light (cleaner shot), fast film stocks require less light but are more grainy.

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Tonality

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Range of tones from pure white to pure black.

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Aperture

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adjustable iris: controls how much light is let in and depth of field.

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Short focal length

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aka wide angles (near complete depth of field)

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Long focal length

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aka telephoto

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Middle focal length

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standard lenses

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Standard Aspect Ratio

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1.375:1 (Sometimes quoted as 1.33:1)

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Wide Screen Aspect Ratio

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1.85:1

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Implied Proximity

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The distance between the viewer and subject on screen

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Long Shot

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Subject and background in equal measure. (establishing shot)

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Medium Long Shot

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Knee UP

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Medium Shot

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Waist UP

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Medium Close UP

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Mid chest up

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Close up

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Face fills frame

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Deep Focus Cinematography

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Wide Angle (short focal length) keeps subject, back, and foreground in focus.

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Dolly shot

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aka tracking shot

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Open frame
characters move freely outside of the frame
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closed frame
characters are stuck in the frame depicting other forces trapping the character.
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Special Effects
aka mechanical or practical effects
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visual effects
effects created using computers on postproduction
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motion capture
using bodysuits with reflectors for post-production
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4 types of actors
1- Actors who take their personae from role to role (personality actors like Tom Cruise) 2-Actors who deliberately play against our expectations of their personae. 3- Actors who seem to be different in every role (chameleon actors) 4-Actors who are non professional cast to bring verisimilitude or reality.
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who invented the art of screen acting
Lillian Gish
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Who invented method acting
Konstantin Stanislavsky
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What is ensemble acting.
An approach that emphasizes the interacting of actors and not individual performance. Found more so in theatre and not movies.
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alienation effect
seeks to distance the audience from identifying with character.
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4 criteria for analyzing actors performance
1- Appropriateness 2- Inherent thoughtfulness/emotionality 3- Expressive coherence 4- Wholeness and unity
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Responsibilities of an Editor
Spatial Relations Temporal Relations Juxtaposition Control rhythm, pace and shot duration Organize fragmented actions and events
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Master Scene Technique and Master Shot
a scene is captured with multiple times with different shot types and angles to be constructed in post. Master shot captures a long shot of the entire scene before closer and more specific shots are captured.
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Shot/reverse shot
Entire interaction is filmed facing one character then filmed again facing other character.
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Cross cutting or Parallel Editiing
Cutting back and forth between two or more actions happening simultaneously in separate locations. (Godfather)
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Intercuting
Shots that interrupt the narrative aka flashbacks, character thoughts etc.
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ellipsis
a temporal leap between shots.
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overlapping action
repetition of action using multiple shots and angles
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Contenten curve
represents the duration required to take in the easily available amount of information. duration and information relationship graph.
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Pace
Speed of at which a scene flows. Made of of shots with similar duration
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Rhythm
Changing of pace within a scene
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Match cuts (3 types)
used to help maintain continuity - cutting on action - eye line cut - graphic cuts (bone to spaceship 2001 Space Odyssey(similar shape between shots))
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Jump cut
Same shot that the middle is chopped out to show a fast forward in time.
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Fundamental tool of an editor
the cut
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Kuleshov Experiment
2 shots do not need any relationship for a spacial relationship to take place.
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Associative Edititng
inserting incongruent images in a scene to invoke a mood or thematic idea.
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Sergei Eisenstein Battleship Potemkin
Known for repetition of action
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French New Wave
Rejection of traditional filmmaking for more experimental techniques
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double sound recording
sound is recorded separate from video recording.
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Automatic Dialog Replacement
Re-recording bad audio in studio by lip syncing over video.
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Fidelity
sounds faithfulness to the source
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Quality of sound
what distinguishes sounds with same amplitude and frequency. Such as a guitar sound vs piano sound
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Diegetic sounds
sounds heard by audience and characters
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non diegetic sounds
sounds only heard by audience
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Nonsimultaneous sound
occurs in flashbacks outside of the characters normal
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The Jazz Singer
first movie with synchronized sound
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First motion picture camera
Kinetograph (Edison)
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Peephole viewer
Kinetoscope
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1915 Birth of a Nation (Griffiths)
First classic Hollywood style
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Paramount Consent Decrees
Stopped studios from buying into theatres
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Production Code
self censorship in productions
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Above the line vs Below the line
Above is preproduction costs and below is production and post costs.
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Negative Cost
the cost to produce, not advertise the film
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Dailiies
raw unedited footage at the end of each production day.
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Package unit system
producers would propose projects to studios for funding rather than studios coming up with ideas.
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line producer vs production manager
production manager carries out line producers decision who is second to the producer.
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The general
silent film era and slapstick comedy
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Lumiere Brothers
Invented cinematographe, fathers of capturing movement in camera.

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