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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 2
01/10/2010

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mise en scene (3 components?)
Definition
"Staging" everything put in front of the camera.
-Setting, Subjects (People/Actors), Composition (Arrangement)
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designer
Definition
Person responsible for appearance of photographs in movies, locations, costumes, and hairstyles
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documentary film
Definition
representation of actual subjects, may present story
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cinematographer
Definition
responsible for motion-photography during making of a film
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scene
Definition
a section of a narrative that gives the impression of continuous action, taking place in cont. time/space
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spaghetti westerns
Definition
Movies made in Italian studies, 1964s mid-1990s
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shorts
Definition
An uninterrupted strip of exposed motion-picture film or video tape that represents a subject during an uninterrupted segment of time
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set
Definition
constructed place for filming
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location
Definition
real place that isn't built for filmmakers, but modifications are made
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limbo
Definition
blank or out of focus set
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realistic
Definition
convince viewers that situation could exist
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non-realistic
Definition
enjoyed for creativity or whimsy
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narrative
Definition
a representation of unified events situated in one or more settings
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loose framing
Definition
when the shot presents the main subject with abundant pace around
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film technique
Definition
any aspect of film making
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frame
Definition
borders of projected film
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expressionistic
Definition
style of media used to represent not external reality in a believable way
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method actors
Definition
performer studies background, and immerses into character
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producer
Definition
in charge of the business/administrative aspects of film making
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cut
Definition
to change from one shot to the following shot, almost instataneous
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reaction cut
Definition
a shot usually of a face that shows someone or occasionally some other creature reacting to an event
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style
Definition
the way that subjects are represented in a text
abstract, black comedy, expressionism
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masking
Definition
technique used to black out part of an image
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CinemaScope
Definition
A wide-schope process intorudced in 1953 and made possible by filming/projecting with anamorphic les
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rack focus
Definition
changing focus from back to foreground
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symmetrical compositions
Definition
subject is in balance with another subject
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text
Definition
something that people produce or modify to communicate meaning
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homage
Definition
tribute to an earlier text
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representation
Definition
likeness of a subject created in a text
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happenings
Definition
change brought about by a force other than a character
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sequence
Definition
a series of related consecutive scenes percieved as a major unit of a narrative film
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episodic plot
Definition
story structure in which some scenes have no necessary relation to each other
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footage
Definition
length of exposed motion-picture film
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Classical Hollywood Film
Definition
Films taht show one+ characters facing a succession of problems while trying to reach goals
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Short fictional films
Definition
1-2 characters usually don't change, brief story time, one goal, one or more obstacles, failure/success
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plot
Definition
structure or arrangement of a narrative's events
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structure
Definition
arrangement of the parts of a text
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title card
Definition
A card/thin sheet of clear plastic on which is written/printed info included in a film
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exposition
Definition
info about events that supposedly transpired before the beginning of the plot
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fabula
Definition
reconstruction of events of a non-chronological narrative into chron. order
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cutaway (shot)
Definition
briefly interrupts the representation of a subject to show something else
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black comedy
Definition
shows humorous possibilities of warfare, death, illness, etc
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socialist realism
Definition
Soviet doctrine/style enforced that decreed that Soviet texts must promote communism/working class
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satire
Definition
representation that indirectly exposes/perhaps ridicules individuals/groups for their short-comings
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