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| consists of settings, composition, and the subjects being filmed |
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| constructed place used for filming |
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| the place where filmed action occurs |
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| a real place that is not built expressly for the filmmakers |
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| the person responsible for the appearance of much of what is photographed in a movie, including locations, costumes, & hairstyles |
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| a section of a narrative that gives the impression of continuous action taking place in continuous time & space |
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| an uninterrupted strip of exposed motion-picture film or videotape that represents a subject during an uninterrupted segment of time |
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| a representation of unified events situated in one or more settings |
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| the borders of the projected film, TV set, or monitor |
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| the acting that results after the performer studies the background and personality of a character in depth & uses various techniques to immerse himself or herself in the role |
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| an actor who tends to specialize in well-defined secondary roles |
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| can convey vastness of space or loneliness |
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| can convey claustrophobic atmosphere (ex - in a submarine) or could be used in close-u[s to show emotion |
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| casting an actor against the type of character they usually portray |
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| arrangement of lighting & subjects in relation to each other & to the sides of the frame |
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| allows full image to be visible |
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| used to show several things at once |
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| changing focus during a shot |
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| agreements in exchange for money, hotel accomodations, cars, food, airline tickets |
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| to change from one shot to the following shot seemingly instantaneously |
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| a shot, usually of a face, that shows someone or occasionally some other creature reacting to an event |
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makes the widest images possible by compressing the image onto the film during filming & expanding the image back to its original width during projection
- CinemaScope = a wide-screen process introduced in 1953 and made possible by filming & projecting with anamorphic lenses |
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| the clear or opaque piece of film that begins and concludes a reel of film |
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| unexposed and unprocessed motion-picture film |
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| thin gelatin coating on top of the base that the picture is recorded on |
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| film width - from 35mm to 16mm |
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| different sensitivities to light |
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| a series of related consecutive scenes perceieved as a major unit of a narrative film |
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| a reflection of the light sources |
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| soft light that usually comes from a source near the camera and is used to fill in unlit areas of the subject or to soften shadows or lines |
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| can emphasize and deemphasize arts of an image and create moods and meanings; can also draw attention to part of an image in a scene |
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| 50 mm lens that causes minimal distortion of images and movement; creates images close to what the normal human eye would see in the same circumstances |
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| may be used to emphasize distance between subjects of between subjects & setting because it causes all planes to appear farther away from the camera and from each other than is the case with a normal lens |
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| longer lens; all planes appear closer to the camera and to each other than is the case with a normal lens; shallow focus |
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| determined by aperature setting |
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| using a wide angle lens or small aperature; deep range of focus |
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| used to soften the image of a person/scene |
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| physically moves the camera forward or backwards |
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| changes from telephoto to normal or wide-angle to bring the foreground or background into and out of focus |
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| size & apparent depth of objects in the image |
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| slanted, off-kilter angle |
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| camera pivots up and down on its base |
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| mounted camera pivots R to L or L to R |
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| a quick pan that causes blurred image; used for POV or chaos |
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| allows the camera operator to move around smoothly |
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| connecting one end of the shot to the beginning of the next |
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| parallelism between 2 shots |
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| a discontinuous transition between shots |
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| spoken works, sound effects, music, silence |
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