basic film terms. time components of film running time—the full duration of a film. (feature films...
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Basic Film Terms
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Time components of film
• Running time—the full duration of a film. (Feature films are generally 90-120 minutes.)
• Story time—the amount of time the plot covers. (Could be hours or centuries.)
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Principle Parts of Film
• Frame – the rectangle itself in which the film appears & each still photograph that makes up a strip of film
• Shot – what is recorded in a single operation of the camera from the time when the director gives the command “action” to the time the director says “cut”
• Scene – a group of shots that are coherently related to each other with continuous action usually in a single location but not always
• Sequence – a group of scenes forming a self-contained unit
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Types of Shots
• A shot is the time occurring between the camera being turned on and shut off.
• Shots vary in time from subliminal (a few frames) to quick (less than a second) to “average” (more than a second but less than a minute) to lengthy (more than a minute)
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Long Shot (LS)
• (A relative term) A shot taken from a sufficient distance to show a landscape, a building, or a large crowd
• (FS) a full body shot
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II (2011)
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The Dark Knight (2008)
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Establishing Shot (or Extreme Long Shot)
• Shot taken from a great distance, almost always an exterior shot, shows much of locale
• ELS
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The Godfather (1974)
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The Good, The Bad , and The Ugly (1966)
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
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Medium Shot (MS)
• (Also relative) a shot between a long shot and a close-up that might show two people in full figure or several people from the waist up
• Most common
type of shot
The Talented Mr. Ripley
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The Godfather, Part II (1974)
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Fight Club (1999)
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300 (2006)
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Close-Up (CU)
• A shot of a small object or face that fills the screen
Apocalypse Now
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Extreme Close-Up (ECU)
• A shot of a small object or part of a face that completely fills the screen
The Saint In London
Rocky Horror Picture Show
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X-Men: First Class (2011)
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Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Donnie Darko (2001)
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Types of Angles• The angle is determined by where
the camera is placed not the subject matter – Angles can serve as commentary on the
subject matter
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High Angle (h/a)
• Camera looks down at what is being photographed
Without Limits
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Big Fish
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The Big Lebowski
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Blade Runner
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Low Angle (l/a)
• Camera is located below subject matter
The Patriot
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Jurassic Park
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The Patriot
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Across the Universe
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“Eye-Level”
• Roughly 5 to 6 feet off the ground, the way an actual observer might view a scene/a camera films a subject from the same plane–Most common
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The Dark Knight
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Inception
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The Shining
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Camera Movement
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Pan
• The camera moves horizontally on a fixed base.
• Usually a stationary camera in a smaller space
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Panning
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Tilting
• The camera points up or down from a fixed base
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Tilt
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Tracking (dolly) shot
• The camera moves through space on a wheeled truck (or dolly) but stays in the same plane
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The Dolly Shot
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Zoom
• Not an actual camera movement
but a shift in the focal length of the camera lens to give the impression that the camera is getting closer to or farther from an object
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The Zoom
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Boom
• The camera moves up or down through space
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Crane
• A camera that is high up on a crane
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Lighting
• High key lighting – the set, the stage, or scene is flooded with light
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Low Key lighting
• The set, the stage, or the scene is partially/dimly lit
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Lighting continued…
• Front lighting- to characterize and/or bring attention to a certain item/detail
• Back lighting- make something look supernatural
• Bottom lighting – make something look evil
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Focalization – point of view
• Subjective – a shot filmed from the pt. of view or perspective of a character
• Authorial - a shot filmed from the pt. of view of the director
• Neutral – a stationary camera films whatever is near it
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Sound
• Diegetic – sound that characters (key word) in the film can hear
• Non-diegetic – sounds that in the film that characters cannot hear
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Editing techniques
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Cut
• Transition between scenes when one scene ends and another one begins
• Most common
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Dissolve
• A gradual transition in which the end of one scene is superimposed over the beginning of a new one.
• You see 2 shots at the same time.
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Fade-out/Fade in
• A scene gradually goes dark or a new one gradually emerges from darkness
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Wipe
• An optical effect in which one shot appears to push the preceding one from the screen.
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Two Shot or Reverse-Shot- Reverse
focusing on one shot and reversing the shot (camera) to film the other subject or shot
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Cross-cutting
• When you cut from one scene to another, then change the scene or setting; however, both scenes are happening at the same time
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Eyeline Match
• When you film a person’s eyes in one shot, and in the next shot, you show what the person is looking at.
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Flashback
• Cutting from one scene to another that goes back in time
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Final Things to Note:
• Framing (left, right, bottom, top, center)
• Dialogue/music lyrics
• Costuming/colors
• The Filter
• 2 basic philosophies of film-making