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: the distance between the camera and that which it
records, measured in anthropomorphic scale, described by extreme
long shot, long shot, medium long shot or plan américain, medium
shot, medium close-up, close-up, and extreme close-up. |
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: the movement of the camera during a single
shot, including tilting, panning, tracking, and so on. |
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| Classical Hollywood cinema |
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a style of filmmaking involving a
cohesive and linear (cause and effect) narrative structure, continuity
editing, the use of mise-en-scène that perpetuates “cinematic realism,”
cultural stereotypes or expectation of social plausibility, genre plausibility,
principal causal agent (character with clear cut goals and
problems). |
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a system developed through the classical
Hollywood system to ensure coherence of space and time. |
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| Cross cutting/parallel editing |
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a form of editing that indicates
simultaneity, cutting between one place of action and another |
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a combination of deep space, which is a set (an element
of mise-en-scène) that allows for action on many planes, and camera
aperture and focus (elements of cinematography) that keeps many
planes in sharp focus, called depth of field. |
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sound whose source
belongs to the imaginative world of the film, sound that is understood
to issue from that world rather than ours. |
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: a form of editing that joins two shots together such that the
first remains visible for a period of time while the second appears,
creating temporary superimposition of the two. Dissolves vary in length |
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a form of camera movement on the ground in which the
camera travels on a dolly |
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: the segment of film exposed by the camera and subsequently
by the projector. Sound film runs through the camera and projector
at a rate of 24 frames per second. Framing involves isolating that
which the camera will record. |
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: a category of both production and reception referring to film
type (Western, comedy, thriller, horror, documentary, and so on). |
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: a principle of continuity editing whereby two shots
are joined together on the basis of their graphic similarities. |
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with respect to the three-point lighting system, a style of
lighting in which bright, even light dominates, with few or no
shadows (as in television sitcom lighting). |
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with respect to the three-point lighting system, a style of
high-contrast lighting, with many shadows. |
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: that space which is offscreen in any given shot but
suggested in the geography of the film’s world. |
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: a principle of editing whereby two shots are joined
together to follow a character’s action from one to the next |
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comprises setting/props, costume, hair, make-up,
lighting, and figure behavior. |
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: a series of shots joined together by editing and united in
time and space. |
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| an exposed and unedited length of film. |
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with regard to cinematography, a lens with an adjustable focal
length, sometimes changed during a single shot (called “racking focus”). |
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