Tafilm test 3

Close up

A detailed view of a person or object, usually without much context provided. Generally includes his or her head.

homage

A direct or indirect reference within a movie. film maker, or a cinematic style.

star

A film actor or actress of great popularity.

Faithful adaptions

A film based on a literary original which captures the essence of the original, often by using, often by using cinematic equivalence for specific literary techniques

Woman's picture

A film genre that focuses on the problems of women, such as career v family conflicts.

telephoto

A lens that acts as a telescope, magnifying the size of objects at a great distance.

Wide- angle

A lens that permits the camera to photograph a wider area than a normal lens.

Zoom lenses (variable focal length lenses)

A lenses of variable focal length theat permits the cinematographer to change from wide angle to telephoto shots in one continuous movement

Cinema Verite

A method of documentary filming using aleatory methods that don't interfere with the way events take place in reality.

Extremely close up

A minutely detailed view of an object or person.

Literal adaption

A movie based on a stage play, in which the dialogue and actions are preserved more or less intact.

Loose adaption

A movie based on another medium in which only a superficial resemblance exists between the two versions.

Voice over

A non-synchronous spoken commentary in a movie, often used to convey the character's thoughts or memories.

motif

A recurring theme, subject or idea

Allusion

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

tracking/dolly shot

A shot taken from a moving vehicle.

long shot

A shot that includes an area within the image that roughly corresponds to the audience's view of the area within the proscenium arch in the live theater.

Multiple Exposure

A special effect produced by the optical printer, which permits the superimposition of many images simultaneously.

Realism

A style of film making that attempts to duplicate the look of object reality as its commonly perceived with emphasis on authentic locations and details, long shots, lengthy takes and minimum of distorting techniques.

Lyrical

A stylistic exuberance and subjectivity, emphasizing the sensuous beauty of the medium and producing an intense outpouring of emotion.

processing shot( also rear projection)

A technique in which background scene is projected onto a translucent screen behind the actors, so it appears the actors are on locations in the final image.

Full Shot

A type of long shot that includes the human body in full, with the head near the top of the frame and the feet near the bottom.

classical paradigm

A vague but convenient term used to designate the style of mainstream fiction films produced in America, roughly from the mid-teens until the late 1960's.

Neorealism

An Italian film movement that produced its best works between 1945 and 1955.

omniscient point of view

An all-knowing narrator that provides the spectator with all necessary information.

Camp sensibility

An artistic sensibility typified by comic mockery, especially of the straight world and conventional morality.

Metaphor

An implied comparison between two unlike elements, meaningful in figurative rather than literal sense.

symbol

An object or action in a literary work that has significance beyond its literal meaning.

Archetype

An original model or type after which similar thins are patterned.

point of view shot

Any shot that is taken from the vantage point of a character in the film, showing what the character sees.

back-lot sets

During the studio era, standing exterior sets of such common locales as a turn-of-the-century city block, a frontier town, a European village, and so on.

Editing

Editing is called montage in Europe

avant-garde

From the French, meaning "in the front ranks."

first person

Main character acting as the narrator of the film

Classical

Movies in this form are structured narrative, with a clear defined conflict,complications , that intensify to a rising climax, and a resolution that emphasizes formal closure.

Marxist

People who believe that those who control the economic system also control the political system. Hold " left wing Values"

non-synchronous

Sound and image that is not recorded simultaneously, or sound that is detached from its source in the film image.

Editing

The joining of one shot (strip of film) with another. The shots can picture events and objects in different places at different times. Editing is called montage in Europe.

Art director

The person responsible for transforming the production designer's vision into a reality on the screen, assessing the staging requirements for a production, and arranging for and supervising the work of the members of the art department.

Majors

The principal production studios of a given era.

Crane Shot

The shot taken from a special device called a crane, which resembles a huge mechanical arm. The crane carries the camera and the cinematographer and can move in virtually any direction.

Auteur Theory

The theory emphasizes the director as the major creator of film art, stamping the material with his or her own personal vision, style, and thematic obsessions

Iconography

The use of well-known cultural symbols or complex of symbols in an artistic representation.

Shot

Those images that are recorded continuously from the time the camera starts to the time it stops. That is, an unedited strip of film.

Auteur Theory

a critical method by which a film is viewed as the product of its "auteur" or director and is judged by the quality of its expression of the director's personality or world view; usually used to relate a film to others by the same director.

animations

a film characterized by photographic in animate objects or individual drawings frame by frame with each frame differing minutely from its predecessor.

Epic

a film genre characterized by bold and sweeping themes usually in heroic proportions.

Convention

a implied agreement between the viewer and the artist to accept certain artificiality as real in a work of art.

Lengthy Shot

a lot of lengthy duration

extremely long shot

a panoramic view of an exterior location photographed from a great distance,often as far as a quarter of a mile away.

genre

a recognizable type if movie, characterized by certain established conventions.

method

a style of performance derived from Russia

Allegory

a symbolic technique in which stylized characters and situations represent obvious ideas, such as justice, death, religion, society, and so on

take

a variation of a specific shot

Flashback

an interruption of the action to present events that took place at an earlier time

rite of passage

narrative that focus on key phases of a persons life , when an individual passes from one stage to another like adolescents to adulthood.

Pan

short for panorama

Subtext

signify the dramatic implications beneath language of a play or movie

Miniatures (also model or miniature shot)

small-scale models photographed to give the illusion that they are full-scale objects

Mise-en-scene

the arrangement of visual weights and movements within a given space

frame

the dividing lines between the edges of the screen enclosing darkness of the theater. Also can be refereed to a single photographed film strip

vertically integrated

when a company is involved in more than one activity in the entire value chain. controlled by same corporation