Film 20A Midterm
Terms
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- executive producer
- finances / facilitates film deal
- line producer
- in charge of daily business of tracking costs and maintaining schedule of production
- unit production manager
- responsible for managing and reporting details of receipts and purchases
- mise-en-scene
- things put on scene for filming, "placed in a scene"
- intrumental prop
- prop used according to its intended purpose
- metaphorical prop
- used for different meaning other than intended use
- natural lighting
- derives from natural source, like sun or lamps
- set lighting
- lighting spread across set evenly diffused as a type of lighting base
- directional lighting
- may appear natural but actually directed to illuminate people/objects
- high key lighting
- main source of lighting, bright to have less contrast
- low key lighting
- main source of lighting, dim and shadowy ot have higher contrasts
- fill lighting
- used to balance key lighting or emphasize other space/objects in scene
- highlighting
- uses different lighting sources to emphasize certain characters or objects or to charge them with significance
- backlighting / edgelighting
- lighting used to illuminate someone/something from the back, often makes silhouette
- three-point-lighting
- combines key-lighting, fill-lighting and backlighting to blend naturally the distribution of light in a scene
- frontal, side, under, or toplighting
- used to illuminate the subject in different directions in order to draw out features
- chiaroscuro lighting
- arrangement of light and dark that create uneasiness
- persistence of vision
- retina retained a visual imprint for a fraction of a second
- focal length
- distance from center of lens to where light rays meet in sharp focus
- vertical integration
- studios owned both production company and theater
- crosscutting / parallel editing
- alternating between two or more strands of simultaneous action
- invisible editing
- minimizing perception of breaks between shots
- versimilitude
- quality of having the appearance of truth
- establishing shot
- initial shot that establishes setting
- axis of action
- imaginary line that bisects
- 180 degree rule
- keeping on one side of the axis of action
- 30 degree rule
- one shot must be followed by another shot taken from a position 30 degrees or more from the first
- shot/reverse shot
- taken from one side of the axis of action, then reverses to other side of axis (180 degree rule)
- graphic editing
- formal patterns such as shapes, masses, colors, lines, and lighting patterns
- graphic match
- one dominant shape or line provides visual transition to a simliar shape or line in next shot
- disjunctive editing
- structure cutting through oppoisitional relationships or formal constructions based on other organizational principles
- distantiation (aka alienation)
- when viewer has to think about movie's structure
- jump cut
- cutting section out of middle of cut
- historical periodization
- divide the timeline of Hollywood history into segments that describe groups of years during which movies shared themes/styles
- early cinema
- 1895-1913, rapid development and experimentation
- classical cinema
- 1913-1927 (silent)
- postwar cinema
- (1946-1965) several overriding historical events and motifs
- contemporary cinema
- most recent period in Hollywood, 1965-present