Film Voc

Front 1

angle

Back 1

the precise viewpint from which something is observed or considered. (camera angle)

Front 2

auteur theory

Back 2

a view of filmmaking in which the director is considered the primary creative force in a motionpicture

Front 3

back light

Back 3

light is direct toward the rear of the story

Front 4

commentator

Back 4

objective narrator who is usually unseen and personally uninvolved in the material

Front 5

composition

Back 5

the placement and movement of persons and objects within a frame

Front 6

cut

Back 6

the simplest and most common transition. one shot is literally cut and spliced to the next.

Front 7

dissolve

Back 7

a slow transition, in which one image fades out while the other fade in

Front 8

double exposure

Back 8

the superimpostion on film of one image upon another

Front 9

establishing shot

Back 9

a shot at the beginging of a film that enables the viewer to determine time, locale, or mood

Front 10

external rhythm

Back 10

the speed in which one shot succeeds another film

Front 11

fade in /out

Back 11

a transition that conveys a sense of finality, with a fade out the image on the screen gradually becomes dark. A fade in begins with a dark screen and image gradually becomes visible

Front 12

frame

Back 12

the smallest unit of film, the rectangular still photograph which by being projected on the screen twenty four times a second gives the illusion of motion