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What is A SHOT?

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is a continuous image representing a coherent slice of time

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What is Mise en scene

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putting into the scene”; signifies the director’s control over what appears in the film frame; includes setting, lighting, costume & makeup, and staging & performance.

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Setting

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the place where filmed action occurs

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set

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a constructed place used for filming

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loose framining

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when a shot presents the main subject with abundant space around it, spread out

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tight framing

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leaves little space around the subject, little movement

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Props

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helps weave motifcs with the help of setting

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Costume

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graphic qualities

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Direction

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path of light from its source or sources to the object lift

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Frontal lighting

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eliminates shadows, near the camera

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Sidelight, cross light

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sculpts the characters features

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backlighting

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comes from behind subject, creates silhouettes

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Underlighting

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light comes from below subject, distort features

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Top lighting

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light shines down almost directly above subject (glamour scenes)

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source

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where light comes from

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key light

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primary source and most directional light, brightest illumination and strongest shadows

diagonally from the front

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fill light

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less intense illumination that fills in and softens or eliminated shadows cast by key light

position near the camera

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three point lighting

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centers attention, combines backlighting, frontal key lighting and fill light

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high key lighting

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even light bright and low contrast and details in shadow areas

soft musicals comedies

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low key lighting

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darker shadows, contrast, sharper

somber threatening or mysterious scenes

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stop action or stop motion

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manipulated frame by frame technique

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typage

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social lass or historical movement films

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typecasting

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actors were directed to conform to what audience expect

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cinematography

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framing, lighting, color composition of image

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editing
piecing together of shots in time
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sound
musical score, sound effects, treatment of voices
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decor
is the set design
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shallow space/stagiing
actors and decor are clustered together on one plane
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deep space/staginging
acts are spread out multiple actions can occur in same shot at once
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depth of field
relies on deep staging
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dialouge track, sound effect track, muscial score
sound recording editing and mixing
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vertical integration
Studio owns production, distribution (getting it out there and deciding where it will be seen), and exhibition (movie theaters) (Like how coal companies owned everything)
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Diegetic Sound
stems from a source within the world of a film. Offers us an awareness of a shots spatial and temporal dimensions. It can either be internal or external, on or off screen, recorded during production or added in during postproduction
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Nondiegetic sound
Stems for a source outside of the world of film, Typically does not offer us any relevant spatial or temporal dimensions. Off screen and recorded during postproduction. On screen characters cannot hear non diegetic sound.
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off screne sound
Sound that is heard off-screen. Non-diegetic sound is always off-screen sound, but off-screen sound is not limited to non-diegetic sound.
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Offscrene sound
And offscreen sound, termed diegetic sound and non-diegetic sound, is best explained in terms of the location in which the sound takes place on the video. ..
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film editing
the piecing together of shots in time
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classic continuity editing
conservative style, excessively obvious cinema, doesn't want to risk confusing even the most inattentive viewer
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Kuleshov effect
if we see someone in a movie looking off-screen, we assume that the next shot is what they are looking at.
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eyeline match
it is a crucial tool in filmmaker’s ability to modulate viewers’ understanding of space.
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180 rule
action sequence and dont cut unless angle at least 30 degrees
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cross cutting/ parallel editing
gives the illusion of connection and leaves us with an impression of a continuous, anxiety-producing drama, makes different lines of action appear to be simultaneously occuring
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30 degree rule
rule that specifies that s hot should only be followed by another shot taken from a position greater than 30 degrees from the original
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overlape
one of the most basic depth cue for colors
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movements
suggests both planes and volumes deep cues
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Aerial perspective
suggest depth by Making more distant planes seem hazier than closer ones
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stop-action involes
Animating an object by changing its position between each frame shot
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highlight"
Lighting that produces a patch of brightness on a surface
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A "prop"
is an object in the setting that Has a function in the action of the film
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lighting,
purley white
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focal length of the lens
some elements of the vocab of cinema are introducted by the opitcla properties of lens
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Wide angle lens
Can see more of the scene in frame from a short distance
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Telephoto/ long lens
Bad for getting a lot In frame but makes things that are far appear close
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Shot scale
the apparent distance of the camera from the main subject of a scene, i
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Camera dynamics
The way in which camera can move or change the framing of cinematic image Camera is mounted or stationery tripod and locomotion of camera is involved
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Pan
is swimming back and fourth
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Tilt
nodding up and down
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Zoom
adjusting the focal length of variable folal length lens
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Tracking
Handless or with dolly follows character backwards forwards sideways
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Lighting quality
hard or soft
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Lighting
direction or source

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