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| Invented Kinetoscope, a peepshow device. First public demonstration of kinetoscope was May 9, 1893, the blacksmith scene. |
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"Father of American Story Film"
Experimented w/ filming at night, storytelling, film editing. Often mixed documentary footage w/ stage footage. |
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| "Birth of a Nation"(1915). "Intolerance"(1916). Was known for his high quality epic films |
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| 1902, Directed by George Melies. Known for its inovational use of special effects, double exposure, and split screen |
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| 1903, Edwin S Porter. Was the first film to use pans, tilts, parrallel editing, and jump cuts. Most popular film of the pre nickelodeon era. |
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| Those images that are recorded continuously from the time the camera starts to the time it stops. |
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| A panoramic view of an exterior location, photographed from a great distance, often as far as a quarter mile away. |
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| A shot that includes an area within the image that roughly corresponds to the audience's view of an area within the image in the live theatre. |
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| A type of long shot that includes the human body in full, with the head near the top of the frame and the feet near the bottom |
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| A relatively close shot, revealing the human figure from the knees and waist up |
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| A detailed view of a person or object. A close-up of an actor usually includes only his or her head |
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| A minutely detailed view of an object or person. Usually includes only an actors mouth or eyes |
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| Deep focus shot/ Wide Angle |
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| A technque of photography that permits all distance planes to remain in focus, from close-up ranges to infinity |
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| Usually an extreme long shot or long shot offered at the beginning of a scene, provinding the viewer with the context of the close shots |
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| An uninterrupted shot, usually taken from a long or full shot range, that contains an entire scene. |
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| Usually a medium shot of two people, with the camera placed just behind the shoulder of lone character, directed at the face of the opposite |
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| The camera's angle relative to the subject being photographed. |
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| A shot in which the camera photographs a scene from directly overhead. |
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| A shot in which the subject is photographed from above. This angle gives the character a small and weak appearance |
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| Shot which the subject is photographed from below. It gives the character and appearance of strength and dominance |
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| A shot photographed by a tilted camera. When image is projected on the screen the subject itself seems to be titled on a diagnol |
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| Director of Photography or DP. The artist or technician responsible for the lighting of a shot and the quality of the photography |
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A style of lighting emphasizing briht even lighting(illumination) with few shadows.
-Used mostly in Comedies and Musicals |
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A style of lighting that emphasizes diffused shadows and atmospheric pools of light
-Often used in Mysteries and Thrillers |
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A style of lighting emphasizing harshe shafts and dramatic streaks of lights and darks.
-Used in Thrillers and Melodramas |
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Lighting the scene from three sources
-Key light, main source of illumination
-Fill Light, placed opposite of Key light
-Back Light, used to seperat the foreground from the background |
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| Too much light enters the aperture of a camera lens, bleaching out the image. Useful for fantasy and nightmare scenes |
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| When the lights for a shot derive from the rear of the set, thus throwing the foreground figures into semidarkness or silhouette |
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| that area of the film image that compels the viewer's most immediate attention |
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| Pieces of glass or plastic placed in front of the camera lens that distorts the quality of light entering the camera |
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| The blurring of focal planes in sequence, forcing the viewer's eyes to travel with those areas of an image that remain in sharp |
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| A previsualization technique in which shots are sketched in advance and in sequence, like a comic strip, thus allowing the filmmaker to outline the mise-en-scene |
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the ratio between the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the scene.
-standard(1.85:1)
-Widescreen, (2.35:1) |
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| The arrangement of visual weights and movements within a given space. Cinematic mise-en-scene encompases the staging of action and the way it is photographed |
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The dividing line between the edges of the screen image and the enclosing darkness of the theatre.
-also refers to a single photograph from the filmstrip |
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The spatial relationship among characters within the mise-en-scene.
-The distance of the camera from the subject photographed |
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| A shot where there is considerable space for the character to walk around |
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A shot where there is little space for the character to walk around
-Usually a medium shot that gives the impression of entrapment |
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Used primarily by realisitic filmmakers.
-tends to be unobtrusive w/ informal composition |
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Tends to be more stylistic
-Frame tends to be arranged in a stylistic and aestheticly pleasing manner |
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A recognizeable type of movie, characterized by reestablished conventions
-Ex. Western, Horrow, Sci-Fi,etc. |
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| Implied agreemeant between the director and the audience to accept certain artificialities as real in a work of art |
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A lens that permits the camera to photograph a wider area than a normal lens. -tends to exagerate perspective
-used in deep focus photography |
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A lens that permits the photographer to switch from a wide angle shot to a telephoto shot in continuous movement
-plunges the viewer in and out of the scene rapidly |
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-Short for panoramic
-Revolving horizontal camera movement from left to right |
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| The camera moves vertically up and down |
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| -A shot taken from a moving device called a crane, which resembles a huge mechanical arm |
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-Shot taken from a moving device
-Originally tracks were layed on the set for a smoother movement of camera |
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| a type of editing in which the shots are arranged to preserve the fluidity of an action w/out showing all of it. |
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