Sound
Natural background noise on television, film or radio. In the same manner, ambient light refers to natural, available light that is not enhanced in any way.
What is ambient noise?
The main source of light in a photograph or film (illuminates one part, casts shadows on another)
What is the Key Light?
Shows top of subject's head to just below the waist (cowboy shot).
What is Medium full shot?
For impression of a single shot. Can hide a cut with camera movement, object cutting the frame, subject leaves the frame.
What is invisible cut?
The text from which a movie is made.
What is a screenplay?
Inique sounds created from a variety of props and equipment to simulate everyday sounds. Created in post production.
What is foley sound?
Illumination from behind the subject and opposite the camera- silhouettes and abstracts the subject
What is Back Lighting?
The camera appears to be shooting from directly above the subject, extremely high angle.
What is Bird's eye?
Cutting between the same shot to show passing of time.
What is a jump cut?
Character identified as the positive force in a film.
What is a protagonist?
A process whereby sound is added to film. This may take the form of adding additional sound to dialogue, or it may refer to the addition of an entire dialogue.
What is dubbing?
Light that is brighter with minimal shadows and lighter tones.
What is high key light?
A depth of field technique that moves the audience's attention to the one portion of the picture that is in focus
What is a shallow depth of field?
Audio from next scene starts before you get to it.
What is J-cut?
The arrangement of plot events and actions that follow each other in time. Story is told in a order it happens.
What is linear chronology?
The sound works against what we see on the screen. For example, horrific acts of violence are accompanied by bright, happy, energetic music rather than the sinister, threatening incidental music we may expect.
What is contrapuntal sound?
Illumination that comes essentially from the angle of the camera, all shadows and dimensions are gone, leaving features flat.
What is frontal light?
A dramatic change in focus from one object to another.
What is rack focus.
The juxtaposition of a series of images to create an abstract idea, meaning, metaphor.
What is intellectual montage?
A narration that assumes an objective and detached stance toward the plot and characters by describing events from outside the story
What is third-person narration?
The standard technique of recording film sound on a medium separate from the picture
What is double-system recording?
(AKA high-contrast lighting). Refers to the contrast between light and darkness in one scene.
What is Chiaroscuro?
Out of focus area, includes saturated colors and out of focus lights.
What is bokeh?
The combination of metric, rhythmic and tonal montage.
What is over tonal montage?
Film has multiple storylines that unravels during the movie, for example Magnolia (1999).
What is Hyperlink structure?