HW 3/26

  • Auteur- french word for author
  • Diegesis- objects, events, spaces and the characters that inhabit them including things inferred by the audience
  • Editing- joining together of clips of film into a single filmstrip
  • Flashback/forward- events of plot no longer match order of story
  • Focus- degree to which light rays pass through the lens
  • Genres- types of film
  • Mise-en-Scene- all the things put in the scene, used to intensify or undermine the significance of a particular scene
  • story/plot- what the audience infers on the basis of what they are shown
  • Scene/Sequence- segment of narrative film
  • Shot- single stream of images
  • Mise-en-Scene – representation of space affects the reading of a film
  • Decor- objects contained in and setting of a scene. can be used to amplify aspects
  • Rear Projection- used to portray a setting without having to be there
  • Lighting- profound effect on the way an image is perceived
  • 3-point, High key, low-key
  • Space- determine mood or relationships between elements in the diegetic world
  • deep space
  • Frontality- face the camera square on
  • Matte shot- combination of two photographic images
  • Offscreen space
  • Shallow Space- Very little depth
  • Costume- Clothes a character wears
  • Acting
  • Typage- selection of actors based on their facial or bodily features
  • Editing
  • Devices
  • transitions
  • cheat cut- mismatches position of figures or objects in scene
  • cross cutting/parallel editing- alternates shots of two or more lines of action
  • Cut-in/Cut-away
  • dissolve-transition between two shots, first image gradually disappears
  • Iris- a round moving mask
  • Establishing / reestablishing shot- shows spatial relations
  • shot/reverse shot- two or more shots edited together that alternate characters
  • Superimposition- exposure of more than one image on the same film strip
  • wipe- transition
  • matches- techniques that join as well as divide two shots through a connection
  • eyeline match- cut follows view of character
  • graphic match
  • duration
  • long take
  • overlapping editing- repeat part or all of an action and rhythm
  • styles of editing- patterned use of transitions, matches and duration
  • continuity- maintain continuous and clear narrative action
  • elliptical- transitions that omit parts of an event

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