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Mise-en-scene |
cinematic staging; the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play/film; the setting or surrounding of an event or action |
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Setting |
the environment in which a story or event takes place |
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Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) |
images that originate from computer graphics technology, rather than photography |
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Typecasting |
the practice of repeatedly casting actors in similar roles across different films |
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Character Actors |
An actor whose career rests on playing minor or secondary quirky character rather than leading roles |
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Cameos |
a short screen appearance by a celebrity, playing themselves |
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Figure Placement & Movement |
The arrangement of actors on screen as a compositional element that suggests themes, character development, emotional content, and visual motifs |
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Soft Light |
light emitted from a larger source that is scattered over a bigger area or reflected off a surface before it strikes the subjects. Soft light minimizes facial details, including wrinkles |
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3-point lighting |
An efficient system developed for film lighting in a standard lighting set up-the key light illuminates the subject, the fill light eliminates shadows cast by the key light and the back light separates the subject from the background
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Natural-key lighting
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lighting design where the key light is somewhat more intense than the fill light, so the fill does not eliminate every shadow. The effect is generally less cheerful than high-key lighting, but not as gloomy as low-key lighting |
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Loose framing |
A technique of leaving empty space around the subject in the frame, in order to convey openness and continuity of visible space & to imply off screen space |
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Chiaroscuro |
The artful use of light and dark areas in the composition in black & white filmmaking |
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Hue |
color; the strength of a hue is measured by its saturation and desaturation
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German Expressionism |
A film style that emerged in the 1910s in Germany. It was heavily indebted to the expressionist art movement of the time & influenced subsequent horror films and film noirs |
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Blocking |
A production term referring to coordinating actors' movements with lines of dialogue |
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Forced perspective
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A system of constructing and arranging building and objects on the so that the diminish in size dramatically from foreground to background, which creates the illusion of depth |
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Freeze frame |
projecting a series of frames of films with the same image which appears to stop the action |
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Method Acting |
A style of stage acting developed from the teachings of Constantin Stanislavsky, which trains actors to get into character through the use of emotional memory |
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Extras |
An uncredited actor, usually hired for crowd scenes |
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Brechtian Distanciation |
Drawing attention to the process of representation to break the theatrical illusion and elicit a distanced intellectual response in the audience |
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Hard light |
Light emitted from a relatively small source positioned close to the subject it tends to be unflattering because it creates deep shadows and emphasizes surface imperfections |
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Available light |
also called 'natural light,' the process of using sunlight rather than artificial studio lights when filming |
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High-key lighting |
lighting design that provides an even illumination of the subject, with many facial dtails washed out, tends to create a hopeful mood in contrast to low-key lighting |
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Low-key lighting |
the greater intensity of the key light makes it impossible for the fill to eliminate shadows producing a high-contrast image, a number of shadows, and a somber mood |
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Tight framing |
visual effect created when the subject in the frame is restricted by the objects or the physical properties of the set |
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Saturation |
the measure of intensity or purity of a color, purer than desaturated color |
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Desaturated |
muted, washed-out color that contained more white than a saturated color |