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Advertising: Central form of promotion that uses television, billboards, film trailers, previews, etc to attract an audience
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alterity: type of parallel editing where shot moves from one location to an entirely different one
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backlighting: light that comes from behind the person or object being filmed, often creating a silhouette around that subject
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blocking: the physical arrangement of actors onstage at any given moment
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Close up: very close to subject so that the subject takes up the whole frame
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Cognition: intellectual/conceptual component by which we understand different dimensions of films. Expectations we have about certain places, people, and things.
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Distribution: Means and methods by which films reach (or do not reach) audiences.
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Exhibition: Together with promotion/distribution are extra filmic dimensions of movies. The places where and the times when films are seen.
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Feature film: standardized commodity that has changed over time.
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fill lighting: less intense than the key, soften the harshness of the main light source, revealing subsidiary details that would otherwise be hidden in shadow.
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Film Production: All industrial processes from idea to finished product. From an initial story idea or commission, through scriptwriting, shooting, editing, directing and distribution to an audience
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highlighting: Using lighting to brighten or emphasize specific characters or objects.
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Identification: emotional response by which we identify with characters, places, and actions.
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Ideology+narrative: increased realism hides the ideological and constructed nature of film, important to remember that films are not reality, or even necessarily realistic.
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key lighting: The main source of non-natural lighting in a scene
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Marketing/Promotion: methods aimed at identifying the market for a movie and then appealing to that target audience.
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Mis en scene: a term used in reference to the staging of a scene in a play or film when considering as a whole the settings, the arrangements of the actors in relation to the setting, props the lighting, etc. Commonly used in film criticism to describe the impact of the arrangement of elements within the frame of a single shot. Approximates a tactile or corporeal existence in the world.
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Naturalistic acting: style that asks an actor to fully and naturally embody the role that he or she is playing in order to communicate that character's essential self
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Overlap: a shot that is a close up of the previous shot
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performance: describes the actors use of language, physical expression, and gesture to bring characters to life
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Point of View (POV) shot: shot that immediately follows a shot in which a character looks at something offscreen. Viewers are cued to reconstruct the shot as if they were viewing it from the POV of the character.
POV shots are usually from the viewpoint of the protagonist, but sometimes they are from the POV of the villain.
POV shots create the illusion of the object being seen being near to the person seeing it.
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props: objects that function as part of the set or as tools for the actors. Props take on special significance when they express characters feelings. Props can be industrial or metaphorical, most are both.
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proximity: an edit from one space to a space very close but very different
ex: shot/counter shot
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Rating system: system which controls what audiences the film reaches
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Reaction shot: Shot following POV shot, showing reaction of character whose viewpoint are are seeing
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Scenic atmosphere and connotation: feelings or meanings assigned to certain sets or settings.
for example: a film set at sea might evoke feelings of danger
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Scenic realism: the physical, cultural, and historical accuracy of objects, backgrounds, and other figures
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social blocking: the arrangement of characters to accentuate relations between them
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Stars: bring a mythological aura to their roles, you simultaneously see them as who they are as an actor and the character they portray.
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Stylized acting: An actor employs emphatic and highly self-conscious gestures or speaks in pronounced tones with elevated diction; the actor seems fully aware that he or she is acting and addressing an audience.
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Taste: Why we like the films we like. Cultural, emotional, intellectual, and social preferences or interests that determine what we like or dislike.
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The star system: Use one or more stars of a movie to market that movie.
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Theatrical trailer: carefully crafted promotional tool
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verisimilitude: the quality of realism
