Editing
An editing style that preserves temporal and/or spatial consistency, typically described as providing greater realism.
What is continuity editing?
Sound which has its source in the narrative world of film (as opposed to sound which has no identifiable source in a narrative world).
What is diegetic sound.
The period from (roughly) 1895 to 1929.
What is early cinema?
The range of distances within which objects can be photographed in sharp focus.
What is depth of field?
The four biggest elements of mise-en-scene.
What is settings and sets, costumes and makeup, lighting, and staging (or blocking)?
What is crosscutting or parallel editing?
Sound which has its source in the narrative world of film (as opposed to sound which has no identifiable source in a narrative world).
What is diegetic sound?
A famous editing experiment that demonstrated how viewers naturally ascribe meaning to shots ordered sequentially.
What is the Kuleshov effect?
The technique of moving the camera forward at the same pace of zooming out, or vice versa.
What is a prop?
A jump cut is exemplary of this style of editing.
What is disjunctive editing?
The process of adjusting the levels of music, dialogue, and sound effects.
What is sound mixing?
The first feature film with synchronous dialogue.
The Jazz Singer (1927)
A technique that assumes film frames can be divided along three horizontal and three vertical lines, and suggests that subjects be placed along these lines for maximum visual interest.
What is the rule of thirds?
The arrangement and movement of actors in relation to one another within the physical space of a scene.
What is blocking (or staging)?
A rule in continuity editing in which the camera must film the action of a scene from one side of an imaginary "axis of action."
What is the 180 degree rule?
The combination of music, dialogue, and sound effects tracks in relation to the image track.
The period before the advent of narrative in which films were spectacles that solicited the attention of viewers through their technical novelty. These films are characterized by their visual shocks and tricks, as well as their direct address of the camera/viewer. They were typically exhibited in fairs, nickelodeons, arcades, amusement parks, etc.
What is cinema of attractions?
The width-to-height ratio of the film frame.
What is aspect ratio?
A type of mise-en-scene that creates fantastical or expressive environments which display and even celebrate their own artificial and constructed nature (as opposed to naturalistic mise-en-scene).
What is theatrical mise-en-scene?
The collision of two antithetical shots (shot A and shot B) to create a meaning that exceeds both.
What is dialectical montage?
The name for (practical) sound-effect creators.
What are foley artists?
A series of still images that record incremental movement. This was pioneered by Eadweard Muybridge in his "motion studies" that predate film.
What is chronophotography?
These three lights are used in the three-point lighting technique.
What is key light, fill light, and back light?
Dramatic, high-contrast lighting that emphasizes shadows and the contrast between light and dark.
What is chiaroscuro lighting?