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42 Cards in this Set
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The Shot
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basic building block of film. Single, uninterrupted shot.
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Significance
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Importance of the subject in the camera/shot
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Framing.
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How we position subjects in the camera/shot how much of fram subject takes up.
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Long Shot
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Who, what and where shot (get tosee all of human form). used to create balance between subject and background.
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Close-up or close shot
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Human face dominates film. used for emotional content and for dialoge to be clear.
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Medium Shot
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Frame from about waste-up. "natural shot" "neutral" "bridge shot"
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Extreme Long Shot
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All background, all context, subject is far away. (Know little about it)
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Extreme close-up
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"Anatomy Lessons". eyes, lips ect. Tend to create jarring, emotional moments. Used for symbolic significance
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Low Angle
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Camera lower to shoot up at the subject. used to present someone threatening, large or significant. But can also be used to show weakness
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High Angle
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Looks down on subject. Subject appears more vulnerable and weak
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Eye Level angle
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Medium shot, natural. More like real life
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Bird's Eye (angle)
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Extreme high angle. used to shock audience
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Dutch Angle
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conveys something strange is going on. Angle slants
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Pan (camera movement)
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camera shakes head. moves horizontally right or left. used to intensify sense of movement
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Tilt (CM)
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Slanted. imitates human head
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Zoom
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Subject seems to grow longer. Magnify dramatic effect
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tracking or Dolly Shots
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Camera is on wheeled thing (cart, care or track) horizontal movement
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Crane
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Dolyl shot with vertical movement
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Hand-held
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No stabilizing apparatus
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Low-key lighting
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High ratio, deep shadows (divided face) associated with darker movies
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High-key lighting
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Low ratio. high fill. less shadows
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Neutral Lighting
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Light is balanced through whole shot. not noticed
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Bottom/side lighting
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Distorts features. Scary halloween lighting
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Front Lighting
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All shadows gone. Features gone
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Back Lighting
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Behind object facing camera. Abtracts subjects (creates sillouettes of people
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Rim Light
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Edges of light from backlight
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Soft Focus
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slightly out of focus. sort of dreamy look. Blurrs lines and blurrs distinctions. Romantic scenes. time machines
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Deep Focus
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Unnatural. Foreground, middle ground and back ground is in focus. Everything is in focus
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Diegetic Sound
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Characters can hear the sound
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Nondiegetic Sound
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Only audience can hear the sound
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Cut
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What ends the shot
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Continuity
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Smooth logical telling of the story (audience not being confused)
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Crosscut
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Intercutting, paralell editing. Filmaker cuts together between two stories. (always happening at the same time)
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Shot/Reverse Shot
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For dialoge. back and forth between 2 people as they talk. (not spanning locations)
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Motivated Cut
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"Eyeline match" character looking out of film. "hear musci" ect. responding to sounds. Audience is meant to wonder what they're reacting to
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Match cut
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More than 1 shot
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Eye-line Match Cut
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Starts with character looking out of the frame. The camera shows what they're looking at. Usually back to character to see reaction
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Match-on Action Cut
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Show beginning, cut to middle, cut to end. Don't want tos show all journey
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Graphic Match Cut
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Starts with shot of object/subject Then cuts to shot of something different with same shape. To increase continuity
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Point of View Editing.
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When camera looks at things from the eyes of the character
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Montage
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Shooting Process. Lot of info shown over a long period of time
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Mise-en-Scene
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Everything that's on stage, everything that makes the shot believiable. (costumes, props, acting)
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