Chapter 5 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Cinematography
The art of making motion pictures
Speed of Motion
Control over the speed of movement on screen
Wide-angle Lens
Short-focal-length. Wide field of view. Distorts straight lines.
Medium Lens
Middle-focal-length. Normal lines.
Telephoto Lens
Long-focal-length. Planes seem squashed together. Narrower angle of vision.
Depth of Field
A range of distances within which objects can be photographed in sharp focus.
Framing
The use of the edges of the film frame to select and to compose what will be visible onscreen.
Aspect Ratios
The ratio of frame width to frame height.
Framing can present with the following angles:
straight-on, high, or low.
Extreme long shot
human figure is tiny or lost
Long shot
figures are more prominent but background still dominates
Medium long shot
Human is framed from the knees up
Medium shot
Human is framed from the waist up
Medium close-up
Human is framed from the chest up
Close-up
Just the head, hands, feet or small object
Extreme close-up
singles out a portion of the face or isolates and magnifies an object
Pan
Swivels the camera on a vertical axis
Tilt
Swivels the camera on a horizontal axis
Dolly shot
Tracking shot, the camera as a whole changes position in any direction along the ground
Crane Shot
Camera moves above ground level
Long take
A shot that continues for an unusually lengthy time before the transition to the next shot.
Images are laid over one another, creating multiple perspectives within the frame.
Superimposition.
Rear projection
Process work, projecting footage of a setting onto a screen, then film actors in front of it.
Matte work
A matte is a portion of the setting photographed on a strip of film, usually with a part of the frame empty. Through laboratory printing, the matte is joined with another strip of film containing the actors.
