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Chapter 5 Film
Chapter Film
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 4
01/17/2013

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Mise-en-scene
Definition
Staging or putting on an action or scene
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Design
Definition
Process by which the look of the settings props, lighting, and actors is determined.
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Composition
Definition
Organization, distribution, balance, and general relationship of actors and objects within space of each slot.

Part of the process of visualizing and planning the design of a movie.
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Production Designer
Definition
Works closely with the director, in visualizing the movie that will appear on the screen, both an artist and an executive responsible for the overall design concept, the look of the movie, as well as individual sets, locations, furnishings the heads of the many departments that create that look.
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Art Director
Definition
In addition to creating and maintaining the studio's distinctive visual style, took full screen credit an any awards the film received for art direction.
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Setting
Definition
The spatial and temporal of a film is the environment (realistic or imagined) in which the narrative takes place.
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Decor
Definition
The color and textures of the interior decoration, furniture, draperies, curtains
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Properties
Definition
Objects such as paintings vases, flowers, silver tea pots, guns, to help us understand the characters by showing us their preferences in such things
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Soundstage
Definition
Windowless soundproffed professional shooting environment that is usually several stories high and can cover an acre or more of floor space
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Chiaroscuro
Definition
The use of deep gradations and subtle variations of lights and darks within an image
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Costumes
Definition
The clothing worn by an actor in a movie, sometimes known as wardrobe.
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Video Assist Camera
Definition
Mounted in the viewing system of the film camera and provides instant visual feedback, enabling them to view a scene its details with those of surrounding scenes before the film is sent to the lab for processing.
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Framing
Definition
What we see on the screen
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Kinesis
Definition
What moves on the screen
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reframing
Definition
Unlike static frame around a painting the frame around a motion picture image can move and thus change its point of view
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Movie Frame
Definition
Results from reframing, not merely a container for a movie's visual elements, but is itself an important and dynamic visual element
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Point of view
Definition
From implies this.
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Why Mis-en-scene?
Definition
The visual elements are are crucial to shaping our sympathy for, and understanding of, the characters shaped by them
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Style
Definition
Absolutely essential to the director's defining and our understanding of character and action
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Design of a Movie
Definition
Should be appropriate to the narrative
Be Transparent
Term
Elements of design
Definition
Setting
Decor
Properties
Lighting
Costume
Makeup
Hairstyle
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Most important decision that film maker makes:
Definition
Determine when to shoot on location and when to to shoot on a set
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Why is lighting essential?
Definition
Essential in drawing the composition of a frame and realizing that arrangement on film.
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Historical Films
Definition
reflect both the years they hope to represent and the years in which they were created
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Script Supervisor
Definition
Kept a meticulous log of each days shooting
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Why did actors have to wear wigs until the 1960'?
Definition
Aesthetic
Practical
Term
Two styles of film
Definition
Realistic
Fantastic
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Russion Filmakers influenced
Definition
Non-fiction filmwith it's documentary look
Highly dynamic style of editing
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First Great German Expressionist film
Definition
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
reflected psychological states in exterior settings, gave interior and 3exterior a voice
Term
Realist Cinema devekloped by the Germans
Definition
Kammerspielfilm
Term
Open Frame
Definition
Designed to depict a world where characters move freely within an open recognizable environment

Realistic or Verisimilar
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Closed Frame
Definition
Designed to imply that other forces, such a sfate, economic or repressive have robbed characters of their ability to move and act freely

Unrealistic
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Figure
Definition
Applies to anything concrete within a frame, ann object an animal, a person.
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Blocking
Definition
The director must plan the positions and movements of the actors with tape
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