Film Terms

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Magic lanterns

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First kerosene lantern projection machine

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Edward Muybridge

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Famous photographer, designed trip wires for the horses feet to hit

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Leland Stanford

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Governor of CA, owned farms, railroad tycoon, made bet with Muybridge about all horses feet touching ground at the same time

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Kinetoscope

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Invented by Edison, designed so films can be viewed through a window at the top of the device

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Tex Avery

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Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck

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Barbera/Hanna

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Flinstones, Jetsons

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Don Bluth

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The Land Before Time, All Dogs go to Heaven

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Tim Burton

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The Nightmare Before Christmas

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Sally Cruikshank

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Quasi at the Quackadero

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Walt Disney

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Mickey Mouse, Fantasia, Snow White

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Matt Groening

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The Simpsons, Futurama

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Chuck Jones

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Looney Toons, Tom and Jerry

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Seth McFarlane

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Family Guy, American Dad

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Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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South Park, Team America

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Ralph Bakshi

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Wizards, Lord of the Rings

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John Lasseter

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Toy Story, UP

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Will Vinton

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The Adventures of Mark Twain

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Max Fleischer

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Betty Boop, Popeye

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Mike Judge

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King of the Hill, Beavis and Butthead

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Walter Lantz

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Woody the Woodpecker

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Ray Harryhausen

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Clash of the Titans

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Cross-cutting

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Where two scenes are cut together because you know they're going to meet

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Intercutting

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Multiple scenes put together to make sense as one scene

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Persistence of Vision

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The ability of the mind to retain an image longer than being exposed to it

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Intermittent movement

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Ability to stop that frame for 1/24 of a second

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Cinema Verite

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Without script, regarding real events

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Avante Garde

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Experimental cinema

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Mise-en-scene

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Everything that appears before i.e. cameras, set, costumes

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Montage

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Combining shots to create meaning

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Film Styles (4)

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1. Narrative

2. Documentary

3. Animation

4. Experimental

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Depth of Field

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Distance in front of and behind the object that appears to be in focus

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F-stop

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Diameter of the camera, opening one stop doubles the amount of light

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Rule of thirds

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Never center your subject

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Dutch Angle

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Where the camera is set on an angle in its roll axis

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180-degree line

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The rule where two characters in a scene should maintain the same left/right relationship

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Genres (4)

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1. Western

2. Melodrama

3. Film Noir

4. Gangster

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Works

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Have primary jobs, script supervisor, grips, gaffers

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Below/Above the line

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Workers above the line can negotiate their own pay, below they have to stick to the set amount by the union, unless non-union

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FPS

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Frames per second

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Academy Leader

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Leads the countdown, checking sound

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Jump Cut

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Jumping to a shot of the same subject so it looks the same

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Match Cut

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Matching an editing a subject so it looks exactly the same as another one

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How many frames does a 1-minute animation video have?

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720 Frames