Editing
An editing style that preserves temporal and/or spatial consistency, typically described as providing greater realism.
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).
Diegetic sound
Literally meaning, "the appearance of being true," this term describes the spatial and temporal continuity that allows viewers to accept the presented world as true or plausible.
Verisimilitude
The four elements of mise-en-scene
1. performance and staging (or blocking)
2. setting and sets (props included)
3. costumes and makeup
4. lighting
The range of distances within which objects can be photographed in sharp focus.
Depth of field
The technique of alternating between multiple strands of simultaneous action.
Crosscutting or parallel editing
Sound that is attached to an image on screen VS Sound that is not attached to an image on screen
Synchronous vs asynchronous sound
La Cienega uses this technique that overlaps and collides disjunctive sounds in a film
Sound montage
The two traditional "types" associated with mise-en-scene.
Naturalistic and Theatrical
The technique of moving the camera forward at the same pace of zooming out, or vice versa.
Dolly zoom
A jump cut is exemplary of this style of editing.
Disjunctive editing
The process of adjusting the levels of music, dialogue, and sound effects.
Sound mixing
A shot-by-shot depiction of a film sequence
Storyboard
The physical, cultural, and historical accuracy of a film's mise-en-scene creates this.
Scenic realism
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.
The rule of thirds
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."
The 180 degree rule
The combination of music, dialogue, and sound effects tracks in relation to the image track.
Sound editing
The first feature film with synchronous dialogue.
The Jazz Singer
Double Jeopardy: the year that the film came out.
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).
Theatrical mise-en-scene
The width-to-height ratio of the film frame.
Aspect ratio
The collision of two antithetical shots (shot A and shot B) to create a meaning that exceeds both.
Dialectical montage
The name for (practical) sound-effect creators.
Foley artists
A famous editing experiment that demonstrated how viewers naturally ascribe meaning to shots ordered sequentially.
The Kuleshov effect
Dramatic, high-contrast lighting that emphasizes shadows and the contrast between light and dark.
Chiaroscuro lighting
The normal frame rate for filmmaking.
24 frames per second