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Cinema Ch 3 Terms Test

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  1. Frontal shots
  2. Frame
  3. Open frame
  4. Diminishing perspective
  5. Motivated
  1. a The frame is your canvas, the rectangular space in which you determine the parameters of the viewer's perspective
    phyical frame - each individual still image captured on film or on video, which creates the illusion of motion.
    compositional frame - two dimensional space defined by x/y dimensions.
  2. b Camera moves should be motivated: conceptually - must have a narrative function, serves as an important storytelling technique. secondly, the moment the camera move begins needs to be motivated within the scene.
  3. c Perceptual understanding that objects will appear to be smaller the further they are from the viewer, and objects will appear larger the closer they are to the viewer.
  4. d Most common, in which the camera looks directly at the face of your subject, but your subject's eyeline glances just off the edge of the frame. 3/4 frontal, profile shot, 3/4 back and from behing
  5. e Composition leads the audience to be aware of the area beyond the edges of the visible shot.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Framing remains steady on the subject, without moving or shifting perspective.
  2. Dramatic unit which action ostensibly happens in continuous time and within a single location
  3. Frame that accentuates the compositional element of depth.
  4. Accumulation of information of the various shots in an edited sequencee. By arranging shots into a sequence, you can create meaning that is greater than the sum of its parts.
  5. Lifting the camera up and down

5 True/False Questions

  1. Object overlappingUnderstanding that objects nearer the foreground will cover or overlap objects further in the background.

          

  2. Shooting for the editSize of your subject in the frame.

          

  3. Direct AddressShot in which the subject looks directly at the camera

          

  4. Flat frameExaggerates the two-dimensionality of the image as a flat frame

          

  5. SequenceDramatic unit which action ostensibly happens in continuous time and within a single location