Camera Movement

Question 1

What distinguishes film and video from still picture forms?

Answer 1

Mobile framing

Question 2

What is a pan in mobile framing?

Answer 2

The rotation of the camera on the horizontal axis

Question 3

What does tilt refer to in mobile framing?

Answer 3

The movement of the camera on the vertical axis

Question 4

What is a tracking shot?

Answer 4

The camera as a whole changes position in any direction

Question 5

What equipment can achieve a tracking shot?

Answer 5

Dolly, crane, car, aircraft, Steadicam

Question 6

What is a crane shot?

Answer 6

Used to change camera height in an ascending or descending motion

Question 7

What characterizes a hand-held shot?

Answer 7

Camera is supported by the camera person’s body without aid of compensating equipment

Question 8

What aesthetic does a hand-held shot mimic?

Answer 8

Documentary aesthetic

Question 9

What is the most common function of the mobile frame?

Answer 9

To reframe a character when they move in relation to another character

Question 10

What is the primary function of tracking shots?

Answer 10

To follow a character or object while in movement

Question 11

What can mobile frames reveal or conceal?

Answer 11

Offscreen space

Question 12

What effect can the visual field of a mobile frame yield?

Answer 12

A sense of subjective movement on the part of the spectator

Question 13

What is the function of the dolly-zoom shot?

Answer 13

Expressing character subjectivity

Question 14

What does the long take function emphasize?

Answer 14

Duration as real time experience

Question 15

What historically restricted long takes in film?

Answer 15

Size of film magazine in 35 mm film

Question 16

What technological advancement in the 1990s allowed for longer takes?

Answer 16

Advent of digital camera

Question 17

What is ellipsis editing?

Answer 17

Shot transitions that omit parts of an event causing an ellipsis in plot duration

Question 18

Ellipsis in 1917

Answer 18

Ellipsis of time during black out moment
Film’s running time ≠ film’s story time

Question 19

How many seamless cuts are estimated in ‘1917’?

Answer 19

34 seamless cuts

Question 20

What is unique about Andy Warhol’s ‘Empire’ (1964)?

Answer 20

Apparent one shot film with static shots (485 min)

Question 21

What is a notable counterexample to a long take?

Answer 21

Empire, consists of 10 reels each approx 48 mins

Question 22

What must filmmakers introduce within a long take to sustain viewer interest?

Answer 22

Change

Question 23

What does mobile framing replace in long takes?

Answer 23

Editing functions through reframing and tracking

Editing is a function of change

Question 24

What is a long take also called?

Answer 24

Sequence shot

Question 25

What does the film '1917' restrict in its narration?

Answer 25

Narration to the perspective of two main characters

Question 26

Mobile framing in 1917

Answer 26

Film as extended tracking shot of two main characters (Blake and Schofield) restricts narration to their narrative perspective and facilitates sympathy toward their experiences

Question 27

Who was Miklós Jancsó?

Answer 27

Hungarian director noted for elaborate, choregraphed long takes

Question 28

How many shots does Red Psalm consist of for an 87 minute film?

Answer 28

Just 28 shots

Question 29

What should viewers consider while watching the opening shot of Red Psalm?

Answer 29

The function of camera movement

Question 30

What is the mobile frame?

Answer 30

Allows movement with respect to the framed material, changing onscreen and offscreen space.

Question 31

Narration in 1917

Answer 31

Restricted narration contrasts to omniscient narration in most media: a narrative point of view that switches between different characters in different settings

Question 32

Function of mobile frame in 1917?

Answer 32

Changes in mobile frame replace editing functions. Instead reframing to show what’s offscreen functions in a similar capacity as a cut Changes in framing are often equivalent to changes in framing position executed by editing (angle, level, height, and distance)