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| MPPC (Motion Picture Production Code)/ Hays Code |
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The Hays Code was the informal name for The Motion Picture Production Code, adopted in 1930 but not seriously enforced until 1934. • Also known as the Production Code that censored various scenes, etc. in films.
Rules included: Criminals having to die/be punished by film's end
No sex outside of marriage
Sex had to be handled with extreme discretion
No abortion, homosexuality, divorce, or miscegenation in stories |
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| one of the oldest lighting techniques used in shooting video and essentially it consists three lights (wouldn’t you know it) – a key light, fill light and back-light |
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film editing that provides for a sense of uninterrupted and continuous narrative action within each scene, maintaining the illusion of diegetic reality for the spectator. |
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| Shot-reverse angles (like in a conversation) |
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| In CONTINUITY EDITING, the imaginary line that passes from side to side through the main actors, defining the spatial relations of the scene. The camera is not supposed to cross the axis at a cut and reverse the spatial relations. Ensures constant screen space and constant screen direction. A term used in film production more than as a term in film analysis. |
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| Genres (Western, Film Noir, Musical, Horror, Crime, Screwball |
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A way of classifying films in terms of patterns of form, content, themes, styles, and narrative structures
French word meaning "kind" |
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| s a stock character of a mysterious and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations. |
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| Deep-focus Cinematography |
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| is a style or technique of cinematography and staging with great depth of field, using relatively wide-angle lenses and small lens apertures to render in sharp focus near and distant planes simultaneously. A deep-focus shot includes foreground, middle-ground, and extreme-background objects, all in focus. |
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• An image in which the distance between the camera and the subject is great
• The film does not cut to another image for an unusually long time
• Abbreviated as "It" |
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