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22 Cards in this Set
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Who was credited with the invention of the phonograph, the telephone, electric light bulb, and the motion picture camera?
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Thomas Alva Edison
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What is the term Mise-en-Scene?
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"What is put in the image", "what is placed in the scene."
- Refers to the properties of cinematic image that are independent of camera position, movement, and editing. - Lighting - Costumes, make-up - Sets - Props - Actors & Quality of acting |
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What's the definition of a shot in cinematography?
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The basic unit of cinematography: A continuously exposed, unedited piece of film of any length.
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What are the components of a shot?
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- Frame (what's inside/outside the view)
- Depth (deep focus vs. shallow focus) - Movement (camera's re-positioning relative to the scene) - Angles (height of camera relative to the subjects) - Distance (How close/far away camera is relative to the subject) - Duration (How long the shot last in time) - Speed (how fast the camera is rolling, slow shooting = fast motion playback, fast shooting = slow motion playback) |
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What is ellipsis?
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The shortening of the plot duration of a film by deliberately omitting intervals or sections of the narrative story or action.
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What is a long take?
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Any shot that continues for an extended period of time.
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What is a long shot?
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Figures are small relative to their surroundings.
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What is a medium long shot?
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Isolates one or more figures. Body is visible from the feet or knees up.
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What is a medium shot?
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Figures are shown from the waist up.
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What is a medium close shot?
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figures are shown from the mid-chest up.
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What is a close-up?
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Fills the screen with an object or figure of significance. Draws attention to details.
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What is an extreme close-up?
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Presents only part of a face or an object.
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What is Parallel Editing or Crosscutting?
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Technique in which film cuts back and forth between two actions to show parallel action. (2 things happening at the same time) Raises narrative tension of the scene.
Ex: One person fleeing and another in pursuit. - Birth of a Nation: In the woods and at home: Flora and Gus/Ben |
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What type of film was George Melies - Trip to the Moon?
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A narrative film
- Where there was talking from a narrator in the scenes throughout the film. |
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What are the components of modernism?
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Fragmentation:
- Where the story and characters need not be connected and consistent; time and space may be in disarray. Unpredictable/uncharacteristic behavior. Formalism: - exploration of properties and limits of the material; a self-referential exploration. Heightened Subjectivity: - Modernists often carry out formal explorations in highly subjective styles while exploring unconscious impulses and personal visions not grounded in external reality. |
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What's the difference between modernist films in Germany and modernist films in Russia?
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Germany:
- Modernist films stressed interiority and subjectivity of characters that were isolated from each other and from society - Expressed disturbed states of mind, inner conflicts - Emphasis on atmosphere, mood, Mise-en-Scene, and psychology. - Set design was the most important aspect. Russia: - Soviet modernism attempted to create new type of film which critically engaged the viewer. - Explored the materiality and formal qualities of the medium. - Emphasized editing - Montage, made the viewer aware of the editing - Editing was the most important aspect. |
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What is match editing/cuts of a continuity editing?
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An element of one shot is carried over into the next shot to smooth the transition so viewers don't lose their orientation in the screen space.
Ex: Birth of a Nation: Flora gets water from the well |
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What is Point of View (POV) of a continuity editing?
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known as “Shot-Reverse-Shot”, which 1) shows the shot of the character, then 2) shows what they see, and the 3) shot of the character’s reaction to what they saw.
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What is eyeline match of continuity editing?
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Where a character looks in the direction of another character even if that second character is not in the shot.
- Creates an imaginary line between the actor in the shot and the one off the screen - A type of a POV shot |
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What is a metaphorical or associational cut?
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Editing together two shots to create a symbolic meaning (i.e. workers
running from soldiers & cows being slaughtered to show how workers are treated like soulless animals). |
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What is a contrast cut?
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Two shots with opposite or oppositional
content are paired. It calls attention to radical inequality and difference between the two scenes to create an emotional/ethical response (i.e. starving man begging for bread & rich man eating a huge turkey on a sliver platter) |
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What is a parallel cut?
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Editing between two different actions to show that they are happening at the same time.
Ex: Flora in the woods and Gus/Ben at home |
