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Non-sequential; editing that creates the illusion of multiple events simultaneously

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Continuity editing

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Sequential editing- shots put together in chronological order

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Linear editing

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The person who makes it all come together.
All the credit when right, no blame when wrong disingenuous to name one person when every film is a collaboration with hundreds of population.

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Director

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What you see on screen

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Frame

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A shot sets the location for ensuring scenes

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Establishing shot

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The joining together of 2 pieces of film

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Edit

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Something in the near distances

ppl. usually waist up

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Close up

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180 degree difference from shot to shot, usually in conversations

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Reverse angle shot

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Very close, usually one body part on a person

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Extreme close up

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Something in the middle distance of the frame

ppl. usually knees/ waist up

Medium 2.3 etc. refer to number of population in shot

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Medium shot

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Something in the far distance said to replicate the proscenium of the stage

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Long shot

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Things in the extreme far distance

ppl. usually tiny

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Extreme long shot

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Shot from above, looking down at an angle

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High angle shot

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Shot from below, looking up from an angle

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Low angle shot

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Frame or camera is tilted/ diagonal

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Tilt/ Oblique/ Dutch angle shot

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Shot achieved via a lens that captures huge expensive space from side to side

*poor depth of field

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Wide angle shot

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Shows a character looking at something followed by a shot from eye-line level

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Eye-line match

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Shows objects, then react to object

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Reaction shot

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Shots from a plane

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Aerial/ Heli shot

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Shots from the point of view of a character

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Point of view shot

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Shots directly overhead looking straight down

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Bird’s eye shot

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Editing in which you see two parts 1 fading.

An edit in which one shot fades into another, but both shots are momentarily visible.

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Lap dissolve

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From black to image

From image to black

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Fade in/ out

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A regular image gets bigger and bigger or gets smaller and smaller

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Obscures part of the image forced to look at one thing
Iris shot
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The image stops on a singular frame
Freeze frame
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Cut that skips time within the same scene, intentionally removing time
Jump cut
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Hard/ Abrupt change, usually involved with motion or violence goes from one thing to another
Slam cut
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An edit in which one image wipes off screen from another
Wipe
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Cut from one scene to another, with similarly shaped objects occupying the same place in the frame
Match cut
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Achieved through a lens that allows a cinematographer to change with wide angle and telephoto in one shot
Zoom in/ out
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Camera turns in a circle either in or out
360 degree shot
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Combining 2 or more shots into one and create the illusion of a singular shot
Matte shot
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Film everything in a 180 degree spectrum, don't cross over or image flips
180 degree rule
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Shot from moving vehicle
Dolly/ Tracking shot
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Pulls back from focal point of frame to reveal something else
Pull back dolly
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Camera is tracked back while lens is zoomed in to keep focus on something
Dolly zoom
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The camera is stationary, but twists to survey the scene
Pan
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Pan so quickly it blurs the scene
Whip/ Swish/ Flash/ Zip pan
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A shot achieved through a lens in which everything is in focus
Deep focus
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A shot that is done by a person wearing a mount or harness
Steadicam shot
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Audio from current scene bleeds into next scene
L cut
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Audio of scene comes in before current scene cuts
J cut
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Who is often credited with having invented linear editing?
Georges Méliès
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Who is credited with having brought deep focus cinematographer to mainstream filmmaking?
Gregg Toland
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The Big Five
1) MGM 2) Paramount 3) Warner Brothers 4) FOX 5) RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum)
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Who is often credited with having invented continuity editing?
Edwin S. Porter
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What separates the majors (the Big Five) from the minors (the Little Three)?
Ownership of cinema
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The Little Three
1) Universal 2) United Artist 3) Columbia
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What is credited with having led to the demise of the Studio System?
Paramount Decree of 1946
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The Studio System rose to prominence because Hollywood studios controlled what three things?
1) Production 2) Distribution 3) Exhibition
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About what kinds of films is it said that "boy meets girl, but girl gets boy?"
Screwball comedy
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In whose film is evil typically portrayed as an inherent aspect of human nature?
Orson Welles
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The five characteristics all genre films share in common are?
1) Iconography 2) Establishment 3) Animation 4) Intensification 5) Resolution
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Whose films are characterized by cultured, urbane and witty scripts that often feature outrageously funny cameos?
Preston Sturges
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Whose films are obsessed with the past and the ravages of time and feature mirror shots, long takes, and crane shots?
Orson Welles
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The self- imposed rules of decorum to which films made during the studio era had to adhere are called?
Production Code or Hays Code
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The idea that all of us, given the right set of circumstances, are capable of terrible deeds is a characteristic of what kinds of films?
Film Noir

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