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World Cinema
film terms
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
10/16/2011

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Tilt
Definition

a vertical movement, pivoting camera upward or downward.

Trouble in Paradise: following Madame running up the stairs.

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Pan
Definition

a horizontal movement, pivoting camera back and forth.

The Great Train Robbery: when the robbers exit the train and run down the hill.

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Crane
Definition

a vertical movement, by raising/lowering the camera on a linear path.

Trouble in Paradise: Butler calls Gaston from window in hallway, camera cranes down to man wanting to talk to Gaston on first floor. (camera outside, people inside)

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Tracking
Definition

horizontal movement, by moving camera back & forth along linear path.

Trouble in Paradise: following Lily from chair to window, in beginning robber scene.

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Zoom
Definition

changing the focal length of the camera; telephoto motion inward

                                    or outward

Trouble in Paradise: just a little as couple embrace in beginning. "Don't stop, keep right on complaining, it's beautiful."

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High/bird's eye
Definition

camera is oriented above subject and looking down

Trouble in Paradise: girl waves from canal boat.

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Low/worm's eye
Definition

camera is oriented below subject/looking up.

Trouble in Paradise: Gaston looking up to Madame Colet from bottom of staircase.

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Shot-reverse-shot
Definition

camera is focused on one character, then, after a cut, focused on another, usually during conversation

Trouble in Paradise: Madame & Gaston talking in hallway, she is on stairs, he asks her if she's staying out late.

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Diegetic Sound
Definition

voice, music, or sound effect presented as originating from source within world described by story.

Trouble in Paradise: quick, witty dialogue.


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Non-diegetic sound
Definition

any voice, music, or sound effect that comes from beyond the story such as voiceover/musical soundtrack

Trouble in Paradise: Madam & Gaston are out to dinner, we see tableside clock, yet hear their voices.

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Non-synchronous sound
Definition

sound that is recorded in post-production

Trouble in Paradise: doorbell when Italian ladies are ringing fallen man's door in beginning

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Synchronous Sound
Definition

sound recorded during making of the film.

-characters speaking

-paper crumpling when Lily is reading newspaper

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Sound bridge
Definition

sound from one scene carries over into beginning of next scene

Trouble in Paradise: radio broadcasting between Venice & Paris, song transfers thru establishing montage

Term
Contrapuntal Sound
Definition

sound used in contrast to the image. 

Trouble in Paradise: music plays over when Gaston & man are whispering to each other, so we know that they are whispering something funny but instead we here the music

Term
1. Function
Definition

everything has purpose/reason.

-expensive purse: gets Gaston & Lily into Madam Colet's environment, & then they end up stealing it back in the end.

-clocks: throughout changing of clock, storyline progresses.

-Safe: draws Gaton: to stick around, and in the end it reveals his true nature. 

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2. Similarity & Repetition
Definition

motion, similar throughout. motifs.

-yes madam, no madam.

-Gaston reached her status: No Gaston/ Yes Gaston

-similarity in scenes where Gaston has romance with Lily & Madam

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