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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Documentary | a film that attempts to convey the reality of actual people, places, and events and focuses on the facts instead of a fictional account of the subject |
| Documentary Novel | A term created by literary critic F. O. Matthiessen, for a work of fiction that integrates elaborate and profuse factual detail and cultural information, including newspaper accounts, trial transcripts, and real cultural occurrences |
| Dub/Dubbing | Dialogue or sound that is recorded and matched to action in shots already filmed |
| Edit | The splicing together of separate shots; the two basic styles of editing are continuity and montage editing. Also, to prepare a work for a wider audience by revising it |
| Establishing shot | a shot or sequence of shots showing the setting (time and place) of a movie or a specific scene; often the opening shot of a film |
| Expression | An early twentieth century mode of artistic expression that followed and enlarged upon impression through its effort to objectify inner experience. In film, expression is characterized by a nightmarish quality, and distortion. |
| Extreme close-up | a shot which shows a portion of the human face, a small portion of an entirety, or the entirety of a small object. |
| Extreme long shot | a shot filmed from a considerable distance, often a quarter of a mile or farther |
| Eye-level shot (Straight on shot) | a shot taken from the height of a normal vision or 5´ to 6´ from the ground |
| eye-line match | shots which cut from a character to what that character is seeing |