Intro To Film

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Avant-garde

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From the French meaning “in the front ranks”. Those minority artists whose works are characterized by an unconventional, daring and obscure, controversial, or highly personal ideas.

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Available lighting

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The use of only that light which actually exists on location either natural or artificial.

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Aspect ratio

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The ratio between the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the screen

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Aleatory Techniques

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Techniques of filmmaking that depend on the element of chance. Images are not planned out in advance but must be composed on the spot by the camera operator.

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When are aleatory techniques usually used?

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Documentary situations

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Anticipatory set up

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The placement of the camera in such a manner as to anticipate the movement of an action before it occurs.

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Aerial shot

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Essentially a variation of the crane shot, though restricted to exterior locations.

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Where are aerial shots usually shot from?

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Helicopters

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Animation

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A form of filmmaking characterized by photography in animate objects or individual drawings frame by frame with each frame differing minutely from its predecessor.

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Images are projected at what speed during animation films?

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24 frames per second

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Archetype

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and original model or type after which similar things are patterned.

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What are examples of archetypes?

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Myths, fairytales, genres and cultural heroes, as are the basic cycles of life and nature

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Birds eye view

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Shot in which the camera photographs a scene from directly overhead

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Back lighting

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When the lights for a shot derive from the rear of the set, this throwing the foreground figures into semidarkness or silhouette.

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Blimp

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A soundproof camera housing that muffles the noise of the cameras motor so sound can be clearly recorded on the set.

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Cels/Cells

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Transparent plastic sheets that are superimposed in layers by animators to give the illusion of depth and volume to their drawings

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Cinema Vérité or direct cinema

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A method of documentary filming using aleatory methods that don’t interfere with the way events take place in reality.

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Classical Cinema or Classical paradigm

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A vague but convenient term used to designate the style of mainstream fiction films produced in America. The classical paradigm is a movie strong in story, star, and production values, high level of technical achievement and edited according to conventions of classical cutting.

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Classical cutting

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A style of editing developed by D. W. Griffith, in which a sequence of shots is determined by a scene’s dramatic and emotional emphasis rather than by physical action alone.

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Closed forms

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A visual style that inclines toward self conscious designs and carefully harmonized compositions.

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Close up/Close shot

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A detailed view of a person or object. Usually only includes the actors head.

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Continuity

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The kind of logic implies between edited shots, their principal of coherence.

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Convention

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An implied agreement between the viewer and artist to accept certain artificialities as a real work of art.

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Cover shots

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Extra shots of a scene that can be used to bridge transitions in case the planned footage fails to edit as planned. Usually long shots that preserve the overall continuity of a scene.

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Crane Shot

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A shot taken from a special device called a cream which resembles a huge mechanical arm the crane carries the camera and the cinematographer and can move in virtually any direction

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Cross cutting

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The alternating shots from two sequences often in different locales suggesting that they are taking place at the same time

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Cutting to continuity

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A type of editing in which the shots are arranged to preserve the fluidity of an action without showing all of it. And unobtrusive condensation of a continuous action

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Deep focus shot

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Technique of photography that permits all distance plans to remain clearly in focus from close-up ranges to infinity

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Dialectical

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And analytical methodology, derived from Hegel and Marx that juxtaposes pairs of opposite a thesis and anti-thesis to arrive at a synthesis of ideas

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Dissolve

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The slow feeding out of one shot in the gradual fading of its successor

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Dolly shot, tracking shot or trucking shot

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A shot taken from a moving vehicle

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Dominant or dominant contrast

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That area of the film image that compels the viewers most immediate attention usually because of a prominent visual contrast

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Dubbing

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The addition of sound after the visuals have been photographed.

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Editing

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The joining of one shot with another

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Epic

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A film genre characterized by bold and sweeping themes, usually in heroic proportions

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Establishing shot

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Usually an extreme long or longshot offered at the beginning of the scene providing the viewer with the context of the subsequent closer shots

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Expressionism

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A style of filmmaking emphasizing extreme distortion lyricism and artistic self expression at the expense of objectivity

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Extreme close-up

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A minutely detailed view of an object or person, usually only includes eyes or mouth

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Extreme longshot

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A panoramic view of the next year your location photographed from a great distance often as far as a quarter-mile away

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Eye level shot

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The placement of the camera approximately 5 to 6 feet from the ground corresponding to the height of an observer on the screen

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Fast motion

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Shots a subject photographed at a rate slower than 24 frames per second which when projected at the standard rate convey motion that is jerky and slightly comical seemingly out of control

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Fast stock or fast film

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Film stock that's highly sensitive to light and generally produces a grainy image

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Fill light

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Secondary lights that are used to augment the key light the main source of illumination for a shot. Tell lights soften the harshness of the key light.

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Film noir

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He French term literally black cinema referring to the kind of urban American genre that sprang up after World War II

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Final Cut also release print

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The sequence of shots in a movie as it will be released to the public

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First cut also rough cut

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The initial sequence of shots in a movie often constructed by the director

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Foley artist

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The sound technician in charge of sound effects after the principal photography has been completed

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Footage

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Exposed film stock

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Formalist or formalism

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Is style of filmmaking in which aesthetic forms take precedence over the subject matter as content. time and space ordinarily perceived are often distorted.

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Frame

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The dividing line between the edges of the screen image in the enclosing darkness of the theater

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Freeze frame or freeze shot

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And shot the composed of a single frame that is reprinted a number of times on the filmstrip

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Full shot

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A type of longshot that includes the human body in full with the head near the top of the frame and the feet near the bottom

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Handheld shot

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Is shot taken with a moving camera that is often deliberately shaky to suggest documentary footage in an uncontrolled setting

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High angle shot

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A shot in which the subject is photographed from above

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High contrast

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A style of leaving emphasizing harsh shafts and dramatic streaks of light and dark's often used in thrillers and melodramas

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High key

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A style of lighting emphasizing bright and even illumination with few conspicuous shadows

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Intercut

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Also known as cross cutting

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Intrinsic interest

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And unobtrusive area of the film image that nonetheless compels our most immediate attention because of its dramatic or contextual importance

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Iris

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A masking device that blacks out portions of the screen permitting only a part of the image to be seen

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Jump cut

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And abrupt transition between shots sometimes deliberate which is disorienting in terms of the continuity of space and time

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Key light

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The main source of illumination for a shot

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Long shot

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He shot that includes an area within the image that roughly corresponds to the audiences view of the area within the proscenium arch in the live theater

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Loose framing

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in longer shots the mise en scene is so spaciously distributed within the confines of the framed image that the people photographed have considerable free minute freedom of movement

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Low key

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The style of writing that emphasizes defuse shadows and atmospheric pools of light often used in mysteries and thrillers

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Lyrical

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A stylistic exuberance and subjectivity emphasizing the sensuous beauty of the medium in producing an intense outpouring of emotion

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Masking

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He technique whereby a portion of the movie image is blocked out

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Master shot

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In on interrupted shot usually taken from a bong or full shot range that contains an entire scene

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Minimalism

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In style of filmmaking characterized by austerity and restraint in which cinematic elements are reduced to the barest minimum of information

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Mise en scène

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The arrangement of visual weight and movements within a given space

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Montage

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Transitional sequences of rapidly edited images used to suggest the lapse of time or the passing of events

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What does montage mean in Europe?

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The art of editing

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Motif

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Any unobtrusive technique, object or if thematic idea that's systematically repeated throughout a film

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Motion capture

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Is special effects technique in which an actor is wired up with glass beads so that his gestures and facial movements can be transferred to a computer which plasticizes the image to resemble an animated figures

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Neorealism

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An Italian film movement that produce its best works between 1945 in 1955. Strongly realistic in its techniques.

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Mimesis

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Fictional narrative, showing | Province of live theater

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Digesis

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Fictional narrative, telling | Story is told by a narrator