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51 Cards in this Set
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1826: Joesph Nicephore Niepce
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First photograph: Camera Obscura/ Judea Emulsion
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Zoetrope
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Device that provides the illusion of motion
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Edward Muybridge
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Took pictures in a series of the motion (Horse photos)
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Elements of celluloid film
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Emusion, adhesive, base, supercoat
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Pre-production
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planning (casting, scripts, location) 6 months to 6/10 years
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Production
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principal photography (2-8 weeks)
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Post-Production
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Editing, re-shoots, marketing/distribution
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Mis-en-scene
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setting, costume and makeup, production design, lighting
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Kinds of narrative
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1) Oral-ballad, ode, poem. 2) Music-opera, folk, spiritual. 3) Print-novels, poetry. 4) Visual painting, film, theatre, TV.
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Narrative transmissions
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History, culture, ideology, identity, rules/norms
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Narrative Story/plot relationships
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plot: Happens within story
Story: more than one plot put together |
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Ellipsis
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What's left out
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Analepsis
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flashback
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Prolepsis
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flashforward
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literative events
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repetition
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Framing Device
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How story is told from outside- sometimes we get more info than the character does.
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Screenplay - The "map" of the film
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Provides themes, characterization, plot elements, framing
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Mimesis
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showing "limitating"
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Diegesis
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Telling
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Three Act Structure
Act one? Act two? Act three? |
Act one - Set up
Act two - Confrontation Act three - resolution |
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Screenplay elements:
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Dramatic Premise, setting and period, story values, and conflict
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Open and closed endings
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Open= Leaves questions to the viewer
Closed= Story is wrapped up |
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Major film genres
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Western, comedy, gangster, and musical
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Genre uses:
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Blueprint for industries, structure on which individual films are founded, label - of use to distributers and exhibitors, contract with the audience
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Audiences creates genres:
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Attendance/viewing, community building-build an audience, new associations-turn into something else, "Feedback loop" - Spawn more films like it
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Semantic genre elements
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visual
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Syntactic genre elements
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narrative/thematic; what happens
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Genre Cycles
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come and go; develop, repeat, fade
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Common film formats
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35mm, 70mm, 16mm, 8mm
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Film industry innovations
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IMAX; 3-D, Cinerama
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Digital Cinema/High-Definition: differences
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High def video= 1920X1080 pixel resolution
Digital Cinema: 5000X2800 pixel resolution |
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Editor is concerned with....
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Narrative structure, performance, character, audience
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Ellipsis
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measurable, indefinite
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Micro Scale Editing
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Where does one shot end and when does another one begin
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Macro scale editing
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scene to scene; sequence to sequence; reel to reel-edit in chunks of parts
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Continuity Editing
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internal rhythms= invisible; focus on story
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180 degree rule
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not crossing the plane of action on a scene
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Match cut
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Continuous action
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Montage Editing
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External rhythms, the third meaning
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Types of Montages
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Sequential - Discontinuous action in temporal order.
Sectional - Actions/processes; no temporal order examination of a single activity. Idea Associative - The cutting of two shots unrelated but come together to make a complete idea. |
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Editing Strategies in the scene:
Inductive? Deductive? |
Inductive - Start with details then zoom out for big picture.
Deductive - Big picture then zoom into details |
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Murch's Rule of Six
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Emotion, story, rhythm, eye-trace, one-dimensional plane, three dimensional space
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Sound Envelope
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Attack, sustain, decay
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Musical sound terminology
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pitch, timbre, loudness, harmonics, rhythm
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Altman sound terminology
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sound event, sound narrative, sound record, sound reproduction
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Stems:
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Dialogue, music, sound effects
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How is sound better than picture?
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multi-sensorial, simultaneous, off-screen space
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Diegetic sound
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dialogue, sound effects
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Non-diegetic sounds
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voice over, music
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In-camera effects
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double exposure, reversed film, even recent shots
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Special Effects
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Miniatures, compositing, matte shots
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