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Dance on screen
Term | Definition |
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frame | refers to the rectangle that contains the image |
plot | story of a movie |
mise-en-scene | all the properties of a cinematic image |
point of view | the position from which something is seen and by implication the point of view that determines what you see |
editing | reconstruct scenes by cutting and rearranging film pieces |
crane shot | taken from a crane that moves up and down |
close up | cu, close range shot |
extreme close up | xcu, frames subject very closely and often cuts off the outer portion of the subject from the frame |
shot | single image you see on the screen before the film cuts to a different image |
tone | tange of textures of the colors in a film image |
film speed | the rate at which the film is shot |
perspective | spatial relationship an image establishes between objects and figures its photographing |
setting/sets | location or the construction of a location where a scene is filmed |
cut | when the film changes from one image to another |
iris shot | cameras iris slowly opens or closes |
shot reverse shot | s/rs, shot of subject, to what they are looking at, back to a shot of the subject |
pan shot | ps, horizontal angle where camera pivots from left to right |
fade in/out | when an image dissolve to another |
tracking | trs, shot filmed on tracks moving side to side , follows movement |
jump cut | a single shot broken with a cut |
theme | elements of the plot |
characters | a person in a narrative |
medium shot | ms, waist up shot |
full shot | fs, subject fills frame from head to toe |
three quarter shot | 3/4s, frames 3/4 of a subject |
long take | lt, longer take the normal editing practices |