Film Elements Vocabulary
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mbertorelli on March 7, 2011
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English 10 Intensive, 318, 2012-13, ACE2 First year students, Seminar Students, Zemi Zitowitz, ACE 2 Second year students, Eigo I
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Aerial Shot | A shot from high above, usually from a crane or helicopter. |
| Archival footage | Video clips from the past are used. |
| Close- Up | A framing in which the scale of the object is relatively large, most commonly a person's head from the neck up, or an object of comparable size that fills most of the screen. |
| Epilogue | At the end of the documentary there is a clip that serves as a comment on or conclusion to what happened. |
| Establishing shot | A shot, usually involving distant framing, that shows the spatial relations among important figures, objects, and setting in a scene. |
| Freeze Frame | When the movement of the film image appears to stop so that it appears like a photographic still. |
| Inter Title | The narrator's comments are written out and flashed up on the screen for the audience to read. |
| Interview | Participants, witnesses, or experts are interviewed regarding the subject of the documentary. |
| Ken Burns Effect Photography | Photographs are panned and/or zoomed to create movement from still photography. |
| Long Take | A shot that continues for an unusually lengthy time before the transition to the next shot. |
| Mise-en-scene | All of the elements placed in front of the camera to be photographed: the setting and props, lighting, costumes and make- up, and figure behavior. |
| Pan | A shot that pivots from left to right without the camera changing position. |
| Point of View Shot (POV Shot) | A shot taken with the camera placed approximately where the character's eyes would be, showing what the person would see as if you were experiencing an event with the person. |
| Propaganda | A film with extreme bias that attempts to persuade the audience. |
| Reenactment | Actors are filmed acting and recreating the scene. |
| Score | The musical soundtrack for a movie. |
| Shot/ Reverse- Shot | Two or more edited together that alternate characters, typically in a conversation situation. Over-the-shoulder framing are common in this type of editing. |
| Slow Motion | When action is filmed at a speed faster than 24 frames a second that action appears unusually slow when projected at normal speed. |
| Still photo | A photograph used to depict something through traditional film or digital photography. |
| "Voice Of God" Narrator | Is narration that is anonymous and "all-knowing." |
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