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Studies In Film
Final Terms and Directors
Term | Definition |
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Realism | -Refers to the verisimilitude of a film to the believability of its characters and events -The camera's mechanical reproduction of reality, and often ends up challenging the rules of Hollywood movie making |
Expressionism | Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. |
Story | Refers to the event of the narrative in their presumed spatial, temporal, and causal relations |
Plot | -Refers to the totality of formal and stylistic materials in the film -Includes all the systems of time, space and causality actually manifested in the film |
Psychological Causality | -What creates narratives -Motivated by the psychology of the main character -Causal relations to what is happening in the plot |
Auteur | -A filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp |
Cahiers du Cinema | -French film magazine André Bazin founded with Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph Marie Lo Duca -The most influential film journal in history |
"normal" lens | -focal length roughly between 35-50mm. -most common choice for the photographer because it distorts the least and therefore most closely mimics the way the human eye perceives realty |
wide-angle lens | -a wide angle of view. -the distorting linear perception. -Any lens under 35 mm |
telephoto lens | - long lens Acts like e telescope - >60 mm to 12000 |