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film script / screenplay

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A text containing a film’s action narrative and dialogue.

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storyboard

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A comic-strip version of a filmic sequence. Like the physical film itself, a storyboard consists of a series of frames (‘panels’, in comic-strip terms) picking out a shot’s main situation.

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What are units?

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Frame, shot, scene

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Frame

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Smallest unit on a film’s visual plane, showing a single picture.

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Shot

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Shot: A sequence of frames filmed in a continuous (uninterrupted) take of a camera.

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Scene

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A sequence of action segments which take place, continuously, at the same time and in the same place.

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What are camera angles?

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Straight-on angle
High angle
Low angle

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straight-on angle

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The camera is positioned at about the same height as the object, shooting straight and level (this is the default angle).

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high angle

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The object is seen from above (camera looking down).

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low angle

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The object is seen from a low-level position (camera looking up).

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Whats camera height?

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Regular height
Low height
High height

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regular height

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Camera is positioned at the height of the human face.

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low height

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Camera is positioned below the height of the human face.

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high height

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Camera is positioned above the height of the human face.

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canted (oblique) framing

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Object is not parallel, creates tension.

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Whats distance of framing?

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extreme long shot
long shot
medium long shot
medium shot
medium close-up
close-up
extreme close-up

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Extreme long shot

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Depiction of a building, a landscape or crowd of people.

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Long shot

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A person’s body nearly fills the height of the frame.

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Medium long shot

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A view of a person’s body from the knees up.

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Medium shot

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A view of a person’s body from the waist up.

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Medium close-up

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A view of a person’s body from the chest up.

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Close-up

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Full view of, typically, a human face.

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Extreme close-up

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A small object or part of an object shown large (a speaking mouth, a telephone receiver). Often a detail shot shows a plot-relevant object – a ring, a telephone number on an envelope, the countdown display of a bomb detonator, etc.

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What are camera movements?

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pan
tilt
push in, pull back
zoom

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Pan
The camera surveys a scene by rotating on a vertical axis.
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Tilt
The camera surveys a scene by rotating on a horizontal axis.
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Push in, pull back
The camera moves in on or away from a stationary object.
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Zoom
The camera moves in on or away from an object (zooming in, zooming out) by smoothly extending or shortening its focal length.
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Different ways how to install the camera
hand-held camera dolly shot Steadycam crane shot
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Hand-held camera
Produces irregular movement
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Dolly shot
A shot taken from a camera mounted on a wheeled platform (a dolly).
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Steadycam
Apparatus around cameraman’s hips holds camera steady but allows movement
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crane shot
Camera moves up or down on a crane structure.
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What are different joins (cuts)?
long take (straight) cut gradual joins
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What are different kinds of gradual joins?
Dissolve Fade in/fade out Wipe
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Long take
No cuts
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(Straight) cut
An immediate shift to the next shot without transition
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Dissolve
gradual transition by fading out of current shot and at the same time fading in the new shot
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Fade out/in
fading out into or fading in from a black screen
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Wipe
Second shot replaces the first shot by means of a boundary moving across the screen
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What are different kinds of audio codes?
Diegetic sound Nondiegetic sound Off-screen/on-screen sound Voice over
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Diegetic sound
Noise, speech or music coming from an identifiable source in the current scene ('diegetic' refers to 'diegesis', i.e., the narrative world). For instance, we hear a weather report and we see that it comes from a car radio which somebody has just turned on.
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Nondiegetic Sound
Noise, speech or music which does not come from a source located in the current scene. For instance, we see waves breaking on a desolate sea-shore and we hear a full- orchestra playing Vaughan-Williams's Sea Symphony.
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Off-screen/on-screen sound
Diegetic source of sound but on or off screen
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Voice over
voice over: There are two major meanings: (1) Representation of a non-visible narrator's voice (voice-over narrator); (2) representation of a character's interior monologue (the character may be visible but her/his lips do not move).
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What are features of continuity editing? (8)
establishing shot gaze shot point of view shot, POV shot over-the-shoulder shot shot/reverse-shot Crosscutting match cut jump cut
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Establishing shot
A shot, usually involving distant framing, that shows the spatial relations among the important figures, objects, and setting in a scene.
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Gaze shot
A picture of a character looking ('gazing') at something not currently shown. A gaze shot is usually followed by a POV shot
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POV shot
point of view shot, POV shot: The camera assumes the position of a character and shows the object of his or her gaze.
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Over-the-shoulder shot
The camera gets close to, but not fully into, the viewing position of a character
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Shot/reverse shot
Sequence of two over-the-shoulder shots, typical for conversations.
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Crosscutting
alternating shots from one line of action in one place with shots of events in other places, gives knowledge of causal, temporal or spatial connections.
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Match cut
cut from one shot to another where the two shots match by action, subject matter or composition.
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Jump cut
elliptical cut that appears to be an interruption of a single shot (figure or background changes instantly)
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Whats representation of interiority?
Use of music and sound effects Dual-perspective shots Subtitles, captions, voice-over Enacted mindscreen
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Use of music and sound effects
non-diegetic sound signals emotional states
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Dual-perspective shots
character is shown from an external perspective but image imitates character perception.
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Subtitles, captions, voice over
immediate rendering of thought
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Enacted mindscreen
visual representation of what goes on in character’s mind (e.g. dream, flashback, fantasy)

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