Intro To Cinema

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Ideology

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a relatively coherent system of values, beliefs, or ideas shared by some social group, often taken for granted as natural or inherently true

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Intellectual montage

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the juxtaposition of a series of images to create an abstract idea not present in any one image.

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Jump Cut

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An elliptical cut that appears to be an interruption of a single shot. Either the figures seem to change instantly against a constant background, or the background changes instantly while the figures remain constant.

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Long take

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A shot that continues for an unusually lengthy time before the transition to the next shot.

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Match On Action

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A continuity cut that splices two different views of the same action together at the same moment in the movement, making it seem to continue uninterrupted.

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Mise-en-scene

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All of the elements placed in front of the camera to be photographed: the settings and props, lighting, costumes and makeup, and figure behavior.

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offscreen space

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The six areas blocked from being visible on the screen but still part of the space of the scene: to each side and above and below the frame, behind the set, and behind the camera.

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180-degree system

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The continuity approach to editing dictates that the camera should stay on one side of the action to ensure consistent left-right spatial relations between elements from shot to shot. The 180-degree line is the same as the axis of action.

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POV Shot

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A shot taken with the camera placed approximately where the characters's eyes would be, showing what the character would see; unusually cut in before or after a shot of the character looking.

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Long shot

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A framing in which the scale of the object shown is small; a standing human figure would appear nearly the height of the screen.

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Rear projection

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A technique for combining a foreground action with a background action filmed earlier. The foreground is filmed in a studio, against a screen; the background imagery is projected from behind the screen.

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Shot/Reverse Shot

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Two or more shots edited together that alternate characters, typically in a conversation situation. In continuity editing, characters in one framing usually look left; in the other framing, right. Over-the-shoulder framings are common in shot/ reverse-shot editing.

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Sound bridge

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At the beginning of one scene, the sound from previous scene carries over briefly before the sound from the new scene begins. At the end of one scene, the sound from the next scene is heard, leading into that scene.

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Synchronous sound

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Sound that is matched temporally with the movements occurring in the images, as when dialogue corresponds to lip movements

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Three-point lighting

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A common arrangement using three directions of light on a scene: from behind the subjects (backlighting) , from one bright source (keylight), and from a less bright source balancing the key light (fill light).

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Tilt

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A camera movement with the camera body swiveling upward of downward on a stationary support. It produces a mobile framing that scans the space vertically.

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Tracking shot

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A mobile framing that travels through space forward, backward, or laterally.

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Wide-angle lens

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A lens of short focal length that affects a scene's perspective by distorting straight lines near the edges of the frame and by exaggerating the distance between foreground and background planes. In 35mm filming, a wide-angle lens has a focal length of 35mm or less.

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Wipe

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A transition between shots in which a line passes across the screen, eliminating one shot as it goes and replacing it with the next one.

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Zoom Lens

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A lens with the focal length that can be changed during a shot. A shift toward the telephoto-lens range enlarges the image and flattens its planes together, giving an impression of magnifying the scene's space; a shift toward the wide-angle range does the opposite