any object or element repeated for meaning
What is visual motif?
Classical Framing – 1.33:1 (4x3)
Widescreen Framing – 1.85:1 (5.5x3)
Anamorphic/Cinemascope/Panavision – 2.35:1 (7.05x3)
What is Aspect Ratio?
staying on the same side of the plane
What is the 180 degree rule?
TWO PART:
1. what the film is about
2. the idea behind or attitude toward #1
What are - subject and theme of a film?
Key Light, Fill Light, Back Light
What is 3 Point Lighting?
What are the six basic perspectives (or Shot Sizes)?
there must be a shift of at least 30 degrees in size and/or angle between shots (otherwise it feels like a mistake)
What is the 30 degree rule?
Omniscient, First Person - Inside and Outside, Third Person, Multiple
What is the types of Literary Point of View?
TWO PART
1. Design elements of the set
2. something used by actors to move the story forward
What are Set Dressing and Props?
1.The black frame helps draw attention, distinguishes from the background 2.Working within boundaries; all art works within borders 3.Selecting and ordering from life
What is Framing?
connects the movement between shots
What is cutting on movement?
off- and on-screen stories through which actors bring their previous work and baggage to their roles
What is player's mythology?
1. the emotional overtone, the feeling conveyed 2. physical sensations, sensory – smells, weather, etc.
What is Mood and Atmosphere?
1.The relationship between the spectacle/subject and the spectator/camera 2.Depends on the distance of the camera from the objects it is photographing and on the focal length of the lens.
What is Proxemic Patterns outside the frame?
creates spatial discontiguity and temporal discontinuity. i.e. jump cuts
What is breaking the continuity rules of editing (discontinuity)?
1.Astonishment
2.Novelty
3.Realism
4.Urbanization
5.Affordability
6.Socialization
7.Accessibility
8.Clean
9.Narrative
10.Community
11.Tapped into human dreams, hopes, fears, instincts, and pleasures.
What is why films caught on
Dialogue, Action, Business
What is elements of a player's performance?
1. Something objective/physical/concrete used to convey something subjective/spiritual/abstract 2. Essentially, a visual metaphor
What is an objective correlative?
a.The spatial relationships among the elements in the frame. b.i.e. Placing two actors right next to each other in the frame versus far apart.
What is Proxemic Patterns (inside the frame?)
1.A juxtaposition of shots 2.Creates a psychological effect; invokes a concept that is not present in either of the two shots by themselves
What is collision/soviet montage?