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| actively engage the images and sounds of a film |
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| rectangle of film's image |
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| several shots united by common time and space |
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| several scenes united by a common time |
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| one small portion of the human body fills the frame; adds emphasis |
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| character's head fills the frame; provides more meaning; personal |
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| Image of the knees and up |
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| character is small in relationship to landscape/environment |
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| changing focus from foreground to background (or vice versa) |
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| both foreground and background are in focus |
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| camera is looking down; makes character look weak |
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| camera is looking up; makes character look powerful |
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| nonmoving camera adjusts lens so it appears to be getting closer/further |
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| camera turns to see landscape (horizontal) |
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| camera actually moves up/down |
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| camera rolls along track; when people are walking/running |
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| Pull-Back (Dolly-Out) Shot |
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| shoulder camera; very fluid affect |
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1. Key Light 2. Fill Light 3. Back Light |
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| Two shots joined together |
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| Screen goes black; fade out/fade in |
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| one shot fades into another image |
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| one image wipes another (Powerpoint) |
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| Screen goes black except for a circle; draws attention to a certain point |
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| cutting back and forth between action that's happening at the same time |
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| a cut between two seperate scenes that are linked by a similar action or object |
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| dissolve between two seperate scenes linked by a similar action or object |
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| seeing what a character sees |
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| One POV recorded. then another (Conversation with two people) |
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| all setups on one side "Imaginary Line" |
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| establishes location of next scene |
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| more than 24 frames per second |
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| Fewer than 24 frames per second |
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| bird's eye view; extreme vulnerability, usually symbolizes death |
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| Combing two different pieces of film |
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| Character/Outside Narrator explains things directly to the audience |
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| computer generated imagery |
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| how things are arranged in the frame; what is in the frame; use of space; manipulation of camera view; costumes, sets, props, colors, etc |
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| where items and people are placed |
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box for one spectator at a time to look and see moving pictures 1. The Kiss 2. Serpentine Dances 3. Sandow the Strong Man |
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| early store-front theater |
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the birth of cinema. short, everyday scenes projected for audience 1. Exiting the Factory 2. Arrival of a Train 3. Baby's Lunch 4. Watering the Gardener |
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made first science-fiction film special FX, costumes and sets 1. A Trip to the Moon |
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first western 1. The Great Train Robbery |
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First Full-Length Film Text book on film language -closeups -crosscutting -IMR 1. Birth Of a Nation |
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Primitive Mode of Representation -Spectator is outside of action of film; viewing like a play |
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Industrialized Mode of Representation -positions spectator inside the action of the film -assumes the spectator is a white middle class straight male |
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| Reasons Moviegoing Dropped in the 1950s |
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1. Television comes out 2. Population shifts to the suburbs 3. Participatory Recreation (sports) |
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| Ways Hollywood Striked Back in the 1950s |
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1. Drive-Ins 2. Make TVs bigger; Widescreen 3. 3D 4. Big Biblical and Historical Movies |
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| 3 interlocked cameras provide widescreen effect |
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imaginary lines in screen certain placement of characters |
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| the area of the screen that attracts the spectators attention due to form (shapes/colors/focus) |
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| area of the screen that attracts attention due to importance of the story |
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| add movement to see the whole frame |
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| adds black bars above and below screen |
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| deep focus cinematography |
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went two ways: 1. show a loss of hope; demon/disaster films -Jaws -The Exorcist -The Godfather 2. Show a chance for hope; escapist films -Star Wars -Superman -ET |
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| open film in New York & L.A. -> big cities -> small towns |
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released all over the country on the same day -Jaws |
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| Carl Jung: Archetypal Theory |
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achetypes: patterns that resonate within us -ice: sterility, lack of hope -Forest: new life, renewal -Desert: spiritual wastelands |
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| Joseph Campbell: Hero Cycle |
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1. something painful happens to hero & has to leave home 2. hero tutored by wise old man 3. hero has to conquer evil within himself 4. hero has to reach an atonement with his father 5. hero returns and brings salvation to the people |
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went to film school -Star Wars -THX1138 |
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went to California State College -Jaws -ET -The Color Purple -War of the Worlds -Jurassic Park |
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-The Godfather (I and II) - The Conversation |
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like a record links music and soundtrack |
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| Audience can hear it but characters can't |
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| Sound filmed at same time as image |
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| sound recorded at a different time than image |
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records sounds for films -breaking glass, footsteps, etc |
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