film voc
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- angle
- the precise viewpint from which something is observed or considered. (camera angle)
- auteur theory
- a view of filmmaking in which the director is considered the primary creative force in a motionpicture
- back light
- light is direct toward the rear of the story
- commentator
- objective narrator who is usually unseen and personally uninvolved in the material
- composition
- the placement and movement of persons and objects within a frame
- cut
- the simplest and most common transition. one shot is literally cut and spliced to the next.
- dissolve
- a slow transition, in which one image fades out while the other fade in
- double exposure
- the superimpostion on film of one image upon another
- establishing shot
- a shot at the beginging of a film that enables the viewer to determine time, locale, or mood
- external rhythm
- the speed in which one shot succeeds another film
- fade in /out
- a transition that conveys a sense of finality, with a fade out the image on the screen gradually becomes dark. A fade in begins with a dark screen and image gradually becomes visible
- frame
- the smallest unit of film, the rectangular still photograph which by being projected on the screen twenty four times a second gives the illusion of motion