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A shot where a couple characters are seen interacting.
What is a two-shot?
French illusionist and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.
Who is Georges Méliès?
Storytelling in film is comprised of these two basic elements.
What are visual and audio components?
A mark with greater length than width; can be straight or curved, thick or thin
What is a line?
Horizontal (left-right) movement of the camera from a stationary point.
What is pan?
This shot shows the subject's face and shoulders, cutting off at the ribcage.
What is a medium close up?
Best known for their Cinématographe motion picture system and the short documentary films they produced between 1895 and 1905 in France.
Who are the Lumière Brothers?
This person is on screen using phrases such as they/them/theirs.
What is a 3rd person narrator?
Three-dimensional items expressing length, width, and depth; spheres, cylinders, boxes, and pyramids
What is a form?
Changing the framed subject from a wider shot to a closer shot during the action of the scene.
What is zoom-in?
A shot where the bottom of the frame cuts off around the knees.
What is a 3/4 Shot or Cowboy Shot?
The two main types of films, beside experimental.
What are documentary and narrative?
DAILY DOUBLE!
The moment that the camera starts rolling until the moment it stops.
What is a take?
Light reflected off objects; main characteristics include hue, value, and intensity
What is color?
The vertical (up-down) movement of the shot.
What is tilt?
An opening shot of a scene that shows where the action is taking place.
What is an establishing shot?
The illusion created when still images move so quickly in succession that they appear to create movement.
What is Persistence of Vision?
The central idea that governs and unifies a film and its elements.
What is a theme?
A closed line; can be organic or geometric
What is a shape?
A shot that is rotated either left or right with a tilted horizon. Its purpose is to give the audience a sense of distortion.
What is a Oblique or Dutch Angle?
A type of two-shot used frequently for conversations.
What is an over-the-shoulder shot?
Refers to everything in front of the camera, including the set design, lighting, and actors.
What is mise-en-scène?
A repeated narrative element that supports the theme of a story.
What is a motif?
The area between and around objects; positive and negative areas are created
What is space?
A shot where the camera moves alongside the subject as it moves through the scene.
What is a tracking shot?