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Dance on screen
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |