DIG2030 Introduction to Digital Video

This camera technique is used in the editing process to hide mistakes or focus on interesting objects. These objects can be used as a "glue" to cut together two sequences that don't splice together smoothly.

Cutaway

These shotss are the development o fthe continuity system insofar as they are overlapping portions of a single space and only make sense in relation to one another.

Long, medium, and close-up shot

Our book suggests the painting and photography fail to show us presence. This is because when we view a painting or photograph we are always

aware of the surface of the picture

Storybords serve two purposes: First they allow for pre-visualization and secondly

clear language to communicate ideas to production team

This is a technique in which the camera is carried in a flying aircraft.

fly over

Reflection

is really nothing more than a good nights sleep.

The most basic rule of camera placement that the continuity system observes is

line of action

The most obvious limitation of a storyboard is its inability to show

movement

This is when the audience watches on scene occur in the foreground while another occurs in the background

multi-level action

Of the three types of camera movement panning, tracking and craning - only _______________ is accomplished without moving the camera from one position to another.

panning

Essential to establishing the visual flow of a collection of shots, this is simply the direction an object is facing in a scene. Left or Right

screen direction

Visualization works in two ways: process of inclusion and process of

simplification

Storyboards convey two kinds of information: description of physical environment and

spatial quality

Andre Bazine used the term presence to describe the moviegoer's sense that he is within the same spatial/temporal continuum as

the picture on the screen

This is the term we used when we talk about decreased emotional intensity of your visual components.

Affinity

Vertical axis of camera movement. Pivots up and down

Tilt

This is any method for switching from one image to another.

Transition

A natural camera technique gives us the view of a real person

True

A pan can be used to connect two or more points of interest graphically

True

A traditional wipe is rarely seen today unless the filmmaker wants to deliberately recall the Hollywood style of the '30s and '40s. In its most familiar form the wipe is the cross-frame movement of a new shot over an old one.

True

Habit and convention have established that the dissolve indicates a passage of time.

True

In all there are only seven ways of putting two pieces of film together.

True

One of the more useful aspects of coverage is that action is played out in full for most setups.

True

Our bool suggests the artist rarely has a specific goal in mind when he begins

True

Technically, the Focus-IN/Out is a dissolve, but one that is concealed by another effect.

True

The Fade separates scenes, while the dissolve and the cut connect scenes.

True

The Slice of Life technique shows a slice of life frozen in time or extremely slow speeds

True

The difference between the stationary and the traveling camera is that the traveling camera can move into or out of the action within a single shot.

True

The height of the camera has a considerable effect on the meaning of the shot.

True

The least noticeable use of the pan is to follow action as it moves within a restricted area. This is an example of Panning to Reframe

True

The meaning of any given Q and A pattern can be extended or modified bu changing the context that frames it.

True

The simplest Q and A editing pattern requires on two shots

True

The split-screen is not exactly a transitional effect, though it is use to join images that would other wise be seen in separate shots.

True

The universal units of composition are used together to create a consistent spatial/temporal order.

True

There is no such thing as a mistake in visualization.... only alternative ideas.

True

Vertigo exaggerates perspective, but keeps objects in the center of the frame at the same apparent size.

True

Visualization is a way to coming up with new visual and narrative ideas before shooting begins.

True

While the practice in the continuity style is to hide the cut, the dissolve is intended to be seen or at least experienced.

True

Zoom : This allows the focal length to be gradually changed.

True

the closer the camera is to the line of action the more difficult it is to detect when the camera has crossed the line.

True

The main concern for the visualizer is not the pictorial elements of a shot or sequence but :

What the viewer knows and when

This moves the camera as an actor walks toward the camera at the same time.

Contract Dolly

Often used to build tension and suspense, This camera technique alternates between multiple perspectives to show us the relationship between the scenes, increasing the drama of the events.

Cross cut

Match shots are three adjacent shots that share a graphic element that is registered identically in each other.

False (two)

Our book tells us about why visualization is pertinent to the filmmaker's craft since the two most important aspect of visualization are:

Both physical connection to the medium and opportunity to review and refine work

This is a forward camera movement that focuses on one or more characters in a scene.

Character Dolly

What is a Camera Snap?

Character's perspective when looking through a camera

This starts out with the camera moving backwards while facing an actor. The actor walks faster toward the camera, eventually overtaking it.

Collapse Dolly

The camera follows an actor who is moving away.

Expand Dolly

The tracking shot is used to follow a subject or _____________

Explore space

A Transition: When we look at objects that are at different distances in our field of vision. To conceptualize this technique, consciously focus on objects a different depths as you look around.

False

Making ideas visible before they are put in front of the camera is really not necessary.

False

Pull-Back Reveal : The camera inches forward to reveal the true extent of a scene.

False

Screenplay is a graphically specific form

False

The crane shot is a strictly vertical movement

False

When the field of view is great and the camera movement necessary to follow the action is extensive, the TILT can cover wide spaces more quickly than any other type of camera movement.

False

Reflection means devising the content of the shot and their order in a sequence ina single, uninterupted process

False (This is the defintion of immediacy)

Two types of visual design that a filmmaker must consider: pictorial and digital

False (its pictorial and sequential)

Most often the relationship between shots is one of implication and

Inference

Instead of making us sit up and take notice when a cut occurs, t his techniques is used to make the transition from one image to another as seamless as possible.

Match cut

This is a specific sequence of images in a film

Montage

This is a very natural technique. The camera simply moves horizontally through space.

Not pan. Probably not any of these.

This is the horizontal axis of the camera. It turns left and right.

Pan

This is the process of projecting a film image onto a screen behind the actors.

Rear projection

We cut from a wide shot of the white house ti a recognizable detail of the white house in a closer shot.

Spatial

This involves circling the camera around the scene in progress, creating a dizzying kinetic effect.

Spin around

We cut from a man dropping his drinking glass in one shot to the glass breaking on the floor.

Temporal

Maurice Zuerano describes the storyboard as the

diary of the film