- Auteur- film director who influences their films a lot that they are called an author.
- Diegesis- objects, events, spaces and the characters that make up the story portrayed.
- Editing- joining together of clips of film into a single filmstrip
- Flashback/forward- events of plot no longer match order of story. Going forward in time to see the future of an event and back to see the past.
- Focus- degree to which light rays pass through the lens
- Genres- types of film
- Mise-en-Scene-the setting, the decor, the lighting and the costumes used to intensify 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
- Decor- the objects contained in and the setting of a scene
- Rear Projection- used to portray a setting without having to be there
- Lighting- profound effect on the way an image is perceived
- There are three forms of lighting: 3-point, High key, low-key
- Space- determine mood or relationships between elements in the diegetic world
- Frontality-staging of character so that they face the camera square on
- Matte shot- combination of two photographic images
- Costume- Clothes a character wears
Editing
- cheat cut- mismatches position of figures or objects in scene
- cross cutting/parallel editing- alternates shots of two or more lines of action
- dissolve-transition btwn 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
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