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| focusing not on the speaker but on the face or gestures of the character who is affected by the speech, thus giving the spectator a visual interpretation of the words |
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| a lens with a longer focal length than standard, giving a narrow field of view and a magnified image |
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| Characters approach the camera with a menacing rapidity (having a short focal length and hence a field covering a wide angle) |
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| introduced in 1950s it enables the camera to change its focus fluidly so that it can approach a detail as a travelling shot does while remaining fixed in place |
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| voice of the narrator or off camera person speaks, while the visual and other sound continues |
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| Recorded between the time a camera starts and the time it stops that is between the director's call for action and the call to cut |
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| Long Shot / Establishing Shot |
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| shot, showing the main object at a considerable distance from the camera and thus presenting it in relation to its general surroundings |
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| showing the object in relation to its immediate surroundings |
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| showing only the main object or more often a part of it |
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| camera swing to the right or left while its base remains fixed |
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| camera moves up or down while fixed on its axis |
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| Camera moves in and out and up and down fasten to a crane |
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| camera moves forward or backward |
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| camera is at a high angle |
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| Camera is at a low angle and close up |
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| the action of showing film or playing back video more slowly than it was made or recorded, so that action appears slower than in real life |
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| the action of showing film or playing back video quicker than it was made or recorded, so the action appears faster than in real life |
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| a group of related scenes |
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| switch to another action that, for example, provides an ironic comment on the main action of the sequence. If intercuts are so abundant in a sequence that, in effect, two or more sequences are going at once |
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| Parallel Editing / Crosscut |
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| alternate (one sequence) with another when editing a movie |
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| a transfer from one shot to another |
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| a strip of film is spliced to another, and the result is an instantaneous transfer from one shot to next |
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| shot emerges from beneath another when superimposition of both scenes |
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| the screen grows darker until black |
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| the screen grows lighter until the new scene is fully visible |
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| like a windshield wiper crosses the screen, wiping off the first scene and revealing the next |
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| new scene first appears in the center of the previous scene and then this circle expands until it fills the screen |
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| new scene first appearing around the perimeter then the circle closes in one the previous scene |
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| film/scene built by quick cuts (theory that shots, when placed together placed together add up to more than the sum of the parts |
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