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Chapter 1 Film Intro
Film Intro Chapter 1
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 4
01/13/2013

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Cinematic Language
Definition
Composed not of words, but of myriad integrated techniques and concepts connects us to the story while deliberately concealing the means by which it does so.
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Shots
Definition
An unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of a motion picture camera-that allow visual elements to rearrange themselves and the viewers perspective itself to shift within any composition.
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Editing
Definition
Gives movies the power to choose what the viewer sees and how that viewer sees it at any given moment
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Close-up
Definition
A shot that often shows a part of the body filling the frame-traditionally a face but possibly a hand or eye, or mouth.
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Cut
Definition
A direct change from one shot to another that is the precise point at which shot A ends and Shot B begins, one result of cutting
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Fade In/fade Out
Definition
Transitional devices in which a shot fades in from a black field on black and white film or from a color field on color film or fades out to a black field (or a color field).

Passage of time between scenes
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Low angle shot
Definition
Also known as low shot. A shot that is made with the camera below the action and that typically places the observer in a position of inferiority.
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Cutting on Action
Definition
A continuity editing technique that smoothes the transition between shots portraying a single action from different camera angles. The editor sends the first shot and begins the subsequent shot at approximately the same point in the matching action.
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Explicit meaning
Definition
Everything that a movie presents on its surface.
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Implicit Meaning
Definition
An association, connection, or inference that a viewer makes on the basis of the given story and form of a film. Everyday sense of the word meaning
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Formal Analysis
Definition
Film analysis that examines how a scene or sequence uses formal elements to convey story, mood, and meaning.
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Theme
Definition
A shared public idea such as a metaphor and adage a myth or a familiar conflict or personality type
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Dolly In
Definition
Slow movement of the camera toward a subject making the subject appear larger and more significant. Such gradual intensification is commonly used at moments of a characters realization and or decision or as a point of view shot to indicate the reason for the characters realization
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Duration
Definition
The time a movie takes to unfold onscree. For any movie we can identify three specific kinds of duration:
Story duration
Plot duration
screen duration

Duration has two related components real time and cinematic time
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Point of view
Definition
The position from which a film presents the actions of the story not only the relation of the narrator to the story but also the cameras act of seeing and hearing. two fundamental types point of view are:

Omniscient
restricted
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Movie
Definition
Popular entertainment a product produced and marketed by a large commercial studio.
Cause and effect
Sequential progression
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Content
Definition
Subject of artwork
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Form
Definition
the means by which the subject is expressed
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Parallel editing
Definition
technique that makes different lines of action appear to be occurring simultaneously
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3 fundamental principles of film form
Definition
Light
an illusion of movement
manipulate space and time in unique ways
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