Camera Angles & Movement
a useful shot that relatively shows vulnerability or weakness.
What is a low angle shot?
Any transition, audio, or colors from the previous scenes.
What is a match cut?
Background noise in a scene.
What is natural and ambient sound?
the visual info in a scene or shot, such as setting, lighting, color, shape, costume, makeup, expression, movement, and symmetry.
what is mise-en-scene?
Film categorized based on recurring images or people.
what is genre iconography?
An angle typically used to show power or control over something or power over an event.
What is a high angle shot?
Changes the audio of the scene before or after the scene.
What is a split edit?
Original music is created for the film and plays at different points throughout the movie.
What is a score?
plot related, theatrical makeup.
What is expressive makeup?
when a genre can be broken down in =to many different genres.
What is a sub-genre?
A camera support with wheels to track shots.
What is a dolly?
The opening or closing of a film to end the movie. Now its used to remember old movies.
What is an iris?
Sound which has its source in the scene or ‘world of the film’. A test for digetic sound is: would the characters be able to hear this?
Sound that doesn't have its source in the film world, like mood music voice overs and soundtracks and scores.
What is diegetic and non-diegetic sound?
everyday life makeup.
what is naturalistic makeup?
2 or more genres blended together, for example, crime thrillers. They are useful because the director can have a wider audience.
what is genre-mixing?
This shot shows the entire character from head to toe with the surroundings still prominent in the scene.
What is a long shot?
A shot abrupt cut from 1 scene to another using high contrast in both visuals and audio, typically used to shock or jolt the audience.
What is a smash cut?
A term that refers to the music notes sounding peasant, it may suggest that everything is fine in a film.
The opposite, meaning there is unpleasant music meaning something is wrong or something is about to occur that is bad.
What is harmony and dissonance?
act as a trigger for a certain emotion or link to other important moments in the narrative.
What is color?
Significance & notability
Established in 1910s: earliest film genres based on historical reality; the american frontier
Defined by subject, theme+iconography
Genre conventions
Plot pattern - conflict between civilized order and lawless frontier, stand-off
Character types: the “good bad man”, the “hero in-between”, sheriff
Setting
American frontier: covered wagon, railroad, cowboy hat, town, saloon, revolver, tumbleweeds etc.
What is the western film?
A moving character or object that changes with the movement.
What is passing?
Put seemingly unrelated images together in order to convey a certain feeling or idea, great way to evoke emotion and meaning.
what is an intellectual montage
Used interchangeably with soundscape in audio work it usually refers to music played low in the mix ir order to create mood or atmosphere.
What is a sound bed?
used to draw attention to or emphasize certain features of a character's face, including facial expressions and therefore emotions and intentions (and consequently performance).
What is makeup?
Significance + notability
Response + birthed due to tech innovation
(the jazz singer 1927)
Types of musicals
Straight musical (people singing at any time)
Backstage musical- action centers singers/dancers, the music and performances are in the “film world”
Children films and animated features
Genre conventions
Straight musical - usually in a town or city
Plot pattern: accomplishment to overcome poverty, career, etc.
Character type: struggler, love interest
Theme: joy, success, love
Tech change: contemporary musicals edit and cut quickly ( cinematography plays role)
What is a musical?