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aerial shot
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shot taken from crane, plane, or helicopter. Not necessarily a moving shot.
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art director
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designer, in charge of sets and costumes
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camera angle
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the angle at which camera is pointed at the subject... low, high, or tilt
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cinematographer
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director of photographer... responsible for the camera and lighting - quality of the image
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closeup
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shot of the subject's face only, or any close shot
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crane shot
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a shot taken from a crane, a device resembling the "cherrypickers" used by the telephone company to repair lines
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credits
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the list of technical personnel, cast, and crew of a movie
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cross-cutting
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intermingling the shots of two or more scenes to suggest parallel action (intercutting)
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cut
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a switch from one image to another
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deep focus
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technique favored by realists, in which objects in closeup, medium shot, and long shot are in focus at the same time
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detail shot
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usually more magnified than a closeup... a shot of a hand, eye, mouth, or subject of similar detail
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direct sound
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technique of recording sound simultaneousy with image
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director
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man behind the camera, who determines what we see and when. he, not the producer, is the significant creative artist in a movie
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dissolve
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superimposition of a fade out over a fade in. sometimes called "lap dissolve"
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dolly shot
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taken from a moving dolly (set of wheels and platform) - almost the same as a tracking shot
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editor
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the cutter; the person in charge of splicing the shots of a movie together into final form
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establishing shot
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generally long shot that shows the audience the general location of the scene that follows, often providing essential information and orienting the viewer
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fade in
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a punctuation device - the screen is black at the beginning; gradually the image appears, brightening to full strength
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fade out
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the opposite of fade in
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follow shot
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a tracking shot or zoom that follows the subject as it moves
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footage
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a measurement of the amount of film actually shot (or to be shot)
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frame
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any single image on the film, or the size and shape of the image on the film, or on the screen when projected
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freeze frame
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a freeze shot, which is achieved by printing a single frame many times in succession to give the illusion of a still photograph when projected
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image
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a single specific picture
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insert
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a detail shot that gives specific and relevant information necessary to a complete understanding of the meaning of a scene (a letter, a tell-tale physical detail)
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jump cut
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a cut that occurs within a scene rather than between scenes, to condense the shot. it can effectively eliminate dead periods, such as that between the time a character enters a room and the time he reaches his destination on the other side of the room
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long shot
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a long shot includes at least the full figures of the subject, usually more
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medium shot
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a shot intermediate between a closeup and a long shot
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montage
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adjacent shots related to each other in such a way that they combine to produce another meaning - often used simply to mean editing
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motif
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a recurrent thematic or visual element
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over-the-shoulder shot
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a shot commonly used in dialogue scenes in wich the speaker is seen from the perspective of a person standing just behind and a little to one side of the listener, so that parts of the head and shoulder of the listener are in the frame, as well as the head of the speaker
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pan
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movement of the camera from left to right or right to left. Not the same as a tracking shot (in a pan, the camera is not transported anywhere)
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point of view shot
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a shot that shows the scene from one character's point of view
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process shot
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a "trick shot"; a shot rigged in the laboratory rather than on the set
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reaction shot
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a shot that cuts away from the main scene or speaker in order to show a character's reaction to it
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reverse angle
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a shot from the opposite side of a subject. In a dialogue scene, a shot of the second participant
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scene
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a complete unit of film narration. A series of shots (or even a single shot) that take place in a single location and deal with a single action.
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score
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the music for a movie
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screenplay
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the script of a movie
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set
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the location of a scene
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shot
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a single piece of film, however long or short, without cuts
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slow motion
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the camera is overcranked, so that the film runs through faster than the normal speed; when it is later projected at the normal speed the action will seem slowed down (the opposite is fast motion)
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soft focus
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filters, vaseline, or specially constructed lenses soften the delineation of lines and points, usually to create a romantic effect
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sound stage
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a specially contructed building in which sets can be built for studio filming
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soundtrack
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everything you hear in a movie - dialogue, sound effects, and music
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stock shot
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a library shot, i.e. a shot that is literally borrowed from a collection and inserted into a film, e.g., establishing shots of NYC, fottage of jet planes in flight
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subjective camera
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a style that allows the viewer to observe events from the point of view of a single character
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tilt shot
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the camera tilts up or down
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tracking shot
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generally, any shot in which the camera moves from one point to another. The camera can be mounted on a set of wheels that move on tracks or on a rubber-tired dolly, or it can be hand-held. Also called travelling shot
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Two-shot
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a shot of two people
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voice-over
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the narrator's voice when the narrator is not seen
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zoom
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a shot using a lense whose focal length is adjusted during the shot (long lenses are telephoto lenses; short lenses are wide-angle lenses)
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bildungsroman
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principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a usually youthful main character.
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reform director
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1 good adult role model - changes environment to change behavior
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deep focus
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lense allows you to focus on all 3 planes - creates depth before focus on foreground, middle ground, and background - can be used for expressionism
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existentialism
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major philosophical movement in 20's - adopted by artists after the war in response to horrors of Stalin, Holocaust, Hiroshima... post-religious - we live in a vacuum, no God... put values in actions, they define who you are
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film noir
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crime - dark in tone and visual sense - shows the seedy underbelly of society... always urban
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liebstod
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love death
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absurdism
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dramatic version of existenialism
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brechtianism
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action interrupted to remind us we're watching a movie/play
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Bertol Brecht
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wanted audiences to go out and change the world - he didn't want to have audiences identify with the characters
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Cinema de Papa
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french films in the 50s
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cinema de papa
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cinema in the 50s
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