Time frames/Culture
Three time frames in films.
What are when the movie was made, when it was set and when it was viewed?
Consisting of shots or extracts from the film, and shown on TV or theaters as a form of advertisement
What is a movie trailer?
Visual transition where briefly, there is no image. Used to show a change in time or place.
What is a fade?
Action that flows smoothly across shots.
What is continuity editing?
A beat or pattern. Can be fast paced or slow.
What is rhythm?
A law requiring the segregation of black and white races in America.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Evaluation of a film based on opinion. The comments on the quality of the film are to inform and express a point of view.
What is a movie review?
Visible on-screen as a circle opening or closing. Used commonly during the silent era of Hollywood films.
What is the Iris?
Characters look like they're looking at each other because of the 180 degree rule
What is eye-line matching?
Three kinds of sound you find in films.
What are music, dialogue and sound effects?
Gave certificates of approval to films in the 1960's
What is the Motion Picture Association of America?
Three ways to market a film.
What are movie poster ad, movie trailer and movie review?
Visible on-screen as a bar traveling across the frame and with it replacing one scene with another. Common in Star Wars films.
What is the wipe?
Scenes with many jump cuts showing the passage of time in brief, thematically related shots.
What is montage editing?
Not of the film world. Cannot be heard by the characters. For example, voice over narration.
What is non-diegetic sound?
Reason Atticus Finch spent the night in front of the jail cell of Tom Robinson
What is a mob was going to attempt to lynch Tom Robinson?
Something unique about 1960's movie trailers.
What is...
Actor introduces film?
Discussion of main characters?
Formal presentation?
A gradual scene transition. Images overlap creating a sense of time passing.
What is a crossfade or dissolve?
Cutting back and forth between two lines of action.
What is crosscutting?
The importance of music in film.
What is elicits an emotional response from the audience and conveys informations about characters and the scene?
Three clues or evidence from the film To Kill a Mockingbird proving it was set in the 1930's.
What are cars, script and clothes?
Two key parts of a movie poster ad.
What are a slogan and a film critic's positive opinion in quotes?
Top three things Walter Murch considers important when editing a film.
What are emotion, story and rhythm?
Three things an editor must consider when selecting edits.
What are pacing, meaning and continuity?
Three characteristics, a vibration in the air, or sound has
What are amplitude, frequency and wavelength?