Intro To Film Final Terms

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Director

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The person who makes it all come together, has the final say, etc

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Establishing Shot

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Long or extreme long shot that establishes the context for subsequent shots

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Frame

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What you see on the screen

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Edit

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Joining together of two pieces of film AKA cut

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Reverse Angle Shot

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180º difference from shot to shot - usually in a conversation

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Close Up

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A shot of something in the near distance - usually people from the waste up

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Extreme Close-up

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Extremely close shot of something

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Medium Shot

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A shot of something in the middle distance - with people, usually from the knees or waste up. Medium 2 = two people, Medium 3 = 3 people

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Long Shot

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Shot of something in the far distance. Said to replicate the proscenium of a stage - whole people

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Extreme Long Shot

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Shot from extreme far distance

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High Angle Shot

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Shot from above looking down at an angle

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Low Angle

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Shot from below looking up at an angle

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Tilt/Oblique/Dutch angle

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Shot that shows the frame as tilted

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Wide Angle

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Achieved via a wide-angle lens that allows for shooting huge expanses of space - poor depth of field (things in far frame are blurred but close are clear - good and clear image horizontally)

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Eyeline Match

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Involves many shots in which first the character is looking at something and then a neutral shot of the object is shown with a match angle of the characters eyeline

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Reaction Shot

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Shows the reaction of a person - usually shows what they are reacting to right before

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Aerial/Heli Shot

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From a plane or some flying object

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Point of View

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The POV of a character - inside their hear, looking out of their eyes

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Birds eye shot

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When the camera is directly overhead looking down

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Lap Dissolve

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One shot fades into another leaving both momentarily visible on the screen

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Fade in/out

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Black screen fades into an image and vice versa

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Jump Cut

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Cut that skips time within the same scene

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Slam cut

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A hard abrupt change like a door slamming

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Wipe

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Image wipes off the screen to reveal another scene

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Match Cut

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Cut from one scene to another that have similarly shaped objects

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Iris in/out

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An image growing smaller in the shape of an oval untill it disappears and vice versa

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Iris Shot

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Obscured part of an image often in the shape of an oval so viewers focus on what they can see

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Freeze Frame

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The image stops of freezes so as to make you take notice

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Matte Shot

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Contains multiple layers. Combines two or more shots so as to create the illusion of depth (special effect)

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Zoom in/out

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Achieved from a lens that goes from wide to telephoto in a single shot

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360º Shot

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Camera goes in a circle. Can be in or out. In: camera goes around an object. Out: camera spins = That 70s Show circle

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180º Rule

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When filming something you consider it a half-circle so as not to violate visual continuity (when violated it confuses perspective)

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Dolly or Tracking Shot

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Shot from a moving vehicle

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Pull Back Dolly

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Shot that pulls back from the focal point revealing things that weren't previously in the frame

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Dolly Zoom

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Camera is tracked back while the lens is zoomed in but the focal point is kept the same (creates visually confusing and weird effect for audience)

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Pan

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Camera is stationary but surveys the scene

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Whip Pan AKA Swish, Flash, Zip

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Pan that happens so fast it blurs the image

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Deep Focus Shot

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Shot in which everything in the frame is in focus - near, middle, and far

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Soft Focus

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The blurring of everything other than the focal point

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Rack Focus

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Changes the focal point within the same shot

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Filters

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A piece of material is placed in from of the lens to distort how much/the quality of light entering the camera

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Long Take AKA Tracking Shot

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A shot that contains no edit

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Steadicam Shot

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A camera mount that people wear that stabilizes the shot by isolating the movements of the camera man from the camera creating a steady handheld shot

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L Cut

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The video from the next scene comes in before the audio

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J Cut

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The audio from the next scene comes in before the video

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Blocking

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The planning of movements of the actors within a fame

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Crane Shhot

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hot from overhead that can only come from the movement of a crane

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Homage

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A shot or scene that mimics the work of another director

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Montage

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Founded by Sergéi EISENSTEIN - A series of images cut together in a particular order so as to both convey the action on screen and evoke emotions. Stresses the relationship between shots

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Musical Montage

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A series of shots edited together in conjunction with a specific song (soundtrack not score) so as to have a collective meaning

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Cross Cutting

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Cutting between events that are supposedly happening at the same time - can be montage too (Godfather)

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Cutaways

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Founded by Sam Pekinpah - cuts back and forth from an ongoing event to another ongoing event in the same scene

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Mise En Scene

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The placement and relationship of objects and people within a given scene

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Classical Hollywood Style

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A style of film making characterized by real life shots, few cuts, a minimum of cinematic trickery so as to make you forget you are watching a film. Values Mise En Scene over montage: the relationships within a shot rather than between shots

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Slow Motion Insert

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Shot moving at less than normal speed edited into a sequence or montage

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Diegetic Sound

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Sound that is happening in the on scene world

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Extra diegetic sound

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Comes from off-screen world (e.g. soundtrack)

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Dubbing

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Recording of sound after the fact

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Motif

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Sound that recurs throughout the film

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Leitmotif

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Music for a specific character

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Micky Mousing

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Music that mimics the action on screen

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Three Point lighting

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The primary way most hollywood films are lit

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Key light

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Primary lighting source (brightest most direct light)

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Filler light

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Light from another direction that reduces shadow (usually 45 degrees opposite Key light)

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Back Light AKA Rim Light

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Used to create separation in your images

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High Key Lighting

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Bright and even lighting so as to have no shadows

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Low Key Lighting

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Emphasizes shadows

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Available lighting

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Using only the light that actually exists on location

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The Magic hour

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Either just before sunset or just before sunrise

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Continuity Editing

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Non-linear editing (multiple events happening simultaneously)

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Linear editing

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Sequential scenes