Cinematic/Film Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ambient Sound | Sound that emanates from the background or the setting or environment being filmed, either recorded during production or added during post production |
| Animated Film | also known as cartoon; drawings or other graphical images placed in a series photography-like a sequence to portray movement |
| Backlight | Lighting, usually positioned behind and in line with the subject and the camera, used to create highlights on the subject as a means of separating it from the background and increasing its appearance if three-dimensionality |
| Bird's Eye View | Aerial shot that implies the observer can see all |
| Blocking | actual physical relationships amoung figures and settings |
| Cameo | small but siginificant role often played by a famous actor |
| CGI | computer animated imagery |
| Chiaroscuro | the use of deep gradiations and subtle variations of lights and darks within an image |
| Cinematography | the process of capturing moving images on film or some other medium |
| Close-up | a shot that often shows part of the budy filling the frame- traditionally a face but possibly a hand, eye, or mouth |
| Composition | the process of visualizing and putting visual plans into action; the organization, distribution, balance, and general relationship of stationary objects and figures, as well as of light, chade, line and color withing the frame |
| Dialogue | speech of characters who are either visible onscreen or speaking offscreen |
| Dutch-Angle Shot | Also knwon as an oblique angle shot in which the camera is tilted from its normal horizontal and vertical positions so that it is no longer straight, giving the viewer the impression the the world in the frame is out of balance |
| Fade In/Out | Transitional devices in which a shot fades in from a black firld on a black-and-white film or from a color field on color film, or fades out to a black field |
| Frame | A still photograph that, in rapid succession with other still photographs, creates a motion picture |
| Magic Lantern | Early movie projector |
| Mise-En-Scene | Staging; the overall look and feel of the film- the sum of everything that the audience sees, hears, and experiences while viewing it |
| Montage | A sequence of shots, often with superimpositions and optical effects, showing a condensed series of events |
| Omniscient Point of View | The most basic and most common point of view. The camera has a complete or unlimited perceptions of what the cinematographer chooses for it to see and hear |
| Shot | One uninterrupted run of the camera; can be as long or as short as the director wants |
| Verisimilitude | A convincing appearance of the truth; when movies(or stories) convince you the the things in the story are "true" |
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