mid term

Question 1

extreme close up

Answer 1

eyes only

Question 2

medium close up shot

Answer 2

head and shoulders

Question 3

medium long shot

Answer 3

cut off at the knees

Question 4

long shot

Answer 4

sees the whole character/subject

Question 5

one shot

Answer 5

a film taken in one shot (or is edited to look like it)

Question 6

two shot

Answer 6

frame has two subjects

Question 7

shallow focus

Answer 7

the main subject is in focus and background is blurry

Question 8

deep focus

Answer 8

requires a lot of light (shows background + foreground)…everything in this shot is available in the story

Question 9

pan

Answer 9

camera moves left to right or vice versa

Question 10

dolly

Answer 10

wheeled cart to move camera

Question 11

steadicam

Answer 11

camera stablizer

Question 12

Match cut

Answer 12

edit/cut that uses elements of one scene in the transition to the next scene

Question 13

Eyeline match

Answer 13

a film editing technique to indicate to the audience what a character is seeing… you see character look at something and then cuts to what they’re looking at

Question 14

Graphic match

Answer 14

when the shape or object in two shots are matched in composition

Question 15

Mise en scene:

Answer 15

what’s in the entirety of a shot, what makes up of it?… setting

Question 16

Continuity editing

Answer 16

editing together different but related shots to give viewers the experience of a consistent story in both time and space (helps ground audiences in the reality of the film while establishing a clear and structured narrative)

Question 17

Establishing shot:

Answer 17

shot that sets up the context or setting of a scene

Question 18

180 degree rule

Answer 18

two characters in a scene should always have the same left/right relationship with each other (3 cams on the semi circle)

Question 19

Shot reverse shot

Answer 19

film technique where one character is shown looking at another character, and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character

Question 20

Match on action

Answer 20

type of film transition that cuts from one shot to a closer shot in order to emphasize an action

Question 21

Whip pan

Answer 21

camera that quickly whips back and forth to create fast motion..motion blur effect

Question 22

iris in/out

Answer 22

transition often used in silent films that are used to emphasize certain things in the scene

Question 23

Narrative structure

Answer 23

the structural framework for a movie, the narrative. story is the action of the movie

Question 24

reification

Answer 24

when an abstraction is treated as if it were a concrete real event or physical entity

Question 25

displacement

Answer 25

as a form of dream distortion: substituting an illusion for something real and substantial or a shifting of focus from something important to something less important.

Question 26

condensation

Answer 26

the result of two or more incidents of displacement.

Question 27

hegemony

Answer 27

the mechanism by which ideologies take hold within individuals/groups and establish consent from the existing distribution power of hierarchy