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The lighting and camera choices that symbolizes how your films look.
Controlled by the Director of Photography (DOP, DP, Cinematographer)
Works closely with the Director to achieve the best outcome of the film. |
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| Insufficient light enters camera aperture (opening); dark images |
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| Too much light enters camera aperture; bleached out images |
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| Film speed run slower than normal 24 fps (frames per second) to make action run faster |
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| Film speed run faster than normal 24 fps to make action run slower |
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| Blurring, forcing viewer's eye to travel to in-focus areas of the frame. It is used to get YOUR attention on what the director wants you to see by blurring "unimportant images" and keeping the important image in focus |
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| Camera's angle of view relative to subject. High angle shot from above; Low angle shot from below; Tilt (Oblique) angle shot by fixed, tiled camera creating a diagonal. (These various angles can symbolize/represent various emotional or psychological responses) |
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| Fixed camera revolves horizontally from left to right or vice versa |
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| DOLLY (tracking/trucking): Moving/mounted camera follows action; may be on tracks for smoother movement |
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| Crane): Mounted camera/cinematographer moves any direction through space |
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| Fixed camera; entire scene magnified equally often plunging viewer in or out of scene rapidly as focal length of lens is changed. Zoom in, Zoom out (telephoto lens) |
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Infilmandtelevision,aclose-uptightlyframesapersonorobject.Theyareoftenshotlonglens(Cameraisfarawayandzoomedin)toachieveagreaterdepthoffield.
Leadingcharacterswillhavemultipleclose-upstocreateacloseremotionalbondbetweenthem. |
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| wideshot(sometimescalledafullshotoralongshot)typicallyshowstheentireobjectorhumanfigureandisusuallyintendedtoplaceitinsomerelationtoitssurroundings;however,itisnotasfarawayasanextremelongshotwouldbe.Ithasbeensuggestedthatlong-shotrangesusuallycorrespondtoapproximatelywhatwouldbethedistancebetweenthefrontrowoftheaudienceandthestageinlivethea |
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| ExtremeLongShots/EstablishingShots |
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Anestablishingshotsetsup,or"establishes",ascene’ssettingand/oritsparticipants.Typicallyitisashotatthebeginningoroccasionallytheendofasceneindicatingwhere,andsometimeswhenthescenetakesplace
Forexample,anexteriorshotofabuildingatnight,followedbyaninteriorshotofacoupletalking,impliesthattheconversationistakingplaceinsidethatbuilding.Establishingshotsmayalsofocusonfamouslandmarkstorevealthecityorcountrywhereasceneisset |
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| Linear Editing is where.... |
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| Shots are in a line along the tape |
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| Linear Editing is where.... |
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| Shots are in a line along the tape |
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| What is this area of the Tricaster Software? |
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| Background Sound effects are.... |
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Sounds that don't have to sync with picture, but indicate a setting to the
audience - ambience |
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| Match Cut Editing is where.... |
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| joining two shots whose compositional elements are the same |
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| What is the first basic element of composition? |
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| position - positioning the dominant subject |
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TRUE OR FALSE:
At the highest level, a film is a sequence of shots, each of which captures a specific
situation or action. |
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| TRUE OR FALSE A scene is composed of one or more shots. |
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Which element in a microphone moves when air waves interact with it?
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| What does zooming out with a zoom lens do? |
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Gives a wider view of the subject - increases the amount of area
surrounding the subject |
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TRUE OR FALSE:
Physical sound is when waves in the air are formed by movement of an object. |
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ADR or Automated Dialogue Replacement is NOT performed while doing which of these
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Making adjustments to dialogue audio tracks
Replacing dialogue that cannot be salvaged - unrecognizable
Alterations to dialogue - changes - edits
Voice over - narration
Foley work
Dubbing - Foreign Language or other actor’s voice |
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| What does a Foley artist do? |
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| Create synchronous sound such as footsteps and handling props |
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| Hard Sound effects are.... |
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Common sounds like door slams, guns firing, cars
B Sounds that don't have to sync with picture, but indicate a |
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| First assembly of the tape in sequence, leaving finer points of timing for later |
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The juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated shots or scenes which, when
combined, achieve meaning |
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