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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
05/05/2010

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Extreme Long Shot
Definition
only occupies a little space, maybe an 1/8
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Long Shot
Definition
height is half of the screen space 
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Full Shot
Definition
full body taking up the entire screen space (full body-full screen) 
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Medium Shot
Definition
half of the body is shown, or half of the object is shown
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Close Up
Definition
A part of the body is shown in the screen space
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Extreme Close Up
Definition
a closer close up to the closer up
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Deep Focus
Definition
Everything in the camera is in focus
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Shallow Focus
Definition
the subject is in focus but behind the object is not
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Pan
Definition
horizontal movements of the camera
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Tilt
Definition
vertical movements of the camera
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Swish Pan
Definition
rapid pan
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Rack Focus
Definition
(only in shallow focus) changing focus so subject will lose focus as they go to another subject 
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Dolly (Tracking)
Definition
camera is physically tracking subject 
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Pull Back Dolly
Definition
tracking backwards
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Hand-held
Definition
literally hand-held shots 
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Crane
Definition
the crane is a piece of apparatus which moves the camera vertically; a crane shot is any shot in which the camera itself makes an upward or downward movement
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Zoom
Definition
a zoom in on the subject or zoom out
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Steady Cam
Definition
a very smooth shot even when the operator is moving quickly over an uneven surface
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Aerial 
Definition
any shot that is not connected to the ground (over city shots, airplane shots...) 
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High Angle
Definition
camera is higher looking down
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Low angle
Definition
camera is lower looking up
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suspension of disbelief 
Definition
temporary forget its not real
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Oblique angle 
Definition
45° angle shots
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Eye level
Definition
filming at the same height of the subject
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Bird's eye view
Definition
looking directing down on the subject 
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establishing shot 
Definition
showing setting, place, time, mass people in one shot
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Jump cut
Definition
pulling out information and putting scenes together
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cutting to continuity 
Definition
link to suspension of belief, keeping the time together
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Master shot
Definition
establishing the setting for the scene
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Motif
Definition
theme that is reoccurring 
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Reaction Shot
Definition
two cameras capturing both sides showing a reaction to an action
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Flash Forward
Definition
moving forward to show age
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Flashback
Definition
moving back in thought
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Parallel editing/ cross-cutting
Definition
multiple storied happening at once and you know it because the same event happens 
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