Sound
Keeping time with audio. Ex: lips to words or beats to action
What is Sync?
Cuts, wipes, fades, and dissolves are examples of this
What are transitions?
Describes a ratio of wide to tall
What is aspect ratio?
What is the typical frame rate for movies?
What is 24 frames?
A helpful gridded concept to make your composition aesthetically pleasing.
What is the rule of thirds?
Audio accompanying the video as an offscreen narration
What is voiceover?
A short, impressionistic sequence used to show either the passage time or an accumulation of objects or events used descriptively
What is a montage?
A preliminary assembly of shots placed in order. An editor's first pass through
What is a Rough Cut?
Everything within a shot
What is Mis-en-scene?
Panel of drawn images used to plan out shot sequencs
What is a story board?
Audio used to reproduce and/or create sound for a film. Ex: using celery snaps for bone breaking
What is foley?
A long duration shot where cuts are typically 'invisible' to create the illusion of continuity
What is a long take, continuous shot, or oner?
Describes the effect when a 16:9 aspect ratio video is shown on a 4:3 screen
What is letter box?
It is the technical process of correcting exposure, contrast, white balance, and overall color issues to create a natural image that agrees with the human eye.
What is Color Correction?
What is raw footage?
Unlike mono, this sound source has two channels
What is stereo?
Unnatural, abrupt switch between shots identical in subject but slightly different in screen location
What is jump cut?
Supplemental footage used to add contextual or visual interest.
What is B-roll?
The LUX venmo handle where you can buy merch or donate to the club?
What is @luxvideouw?
A 'codec' is a technology that eases the use of audio-visual files by shrinking and enlarging the file. What does codec stand for?
What is compression-decompression? (Also coder-decoder)
measurement for audio sampling rate - the number of audio samples per second
What is Hertz?
These two types of cuts make the audio files cut out of sync with the video files to create smooth transition
What are J cuts and L cuts?
Uses two tracks to alternate clips for easy transition from one clip to the next
What is A/B Editing?
This legendary editor has won 8 Oscars for Best Editing and has edited all of Martin Scorsese's films. (Hint: Her last name means shoe-maker in Dutch)
It is the method of combining all the clips (including modifications and additional features) to create a refined single video file
What is rendering?