Film Studies Terms

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As Level film studies terminology
Rachel Hedley
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Arc Shot A shot in which a moving camera circles round the subject being photographed.
Bridging Shot A shot that connects one scene to another by showing a change in time and location. It can also be used to connect 2 shots from the same scene by using a close up or a different camera angle thus relating the shots via content.
Composition The complete arrangement of a scene by a director. Including camera angles, lighting, properties, characters and movement of the actors.
Continuity Editing The convention through which the impression of an unbroken continuum of space and time is suggested, constructing a consistent storyline out of takes made at different times.
Dissolve The slow fading of one scene into another.
Dynamic Cutting Combining a series of seemingly unrelated shots, objects, people, situations, details and characters on juxtaposition of one another. (a form of montage)
Frontality The placing of the camera at a 90 angle to the action.
Graphic Match A visual rhyme between two successive shots.
Match on Action A cut between 2 shots of the same action from different positions, giving an impression of seamless simultaneity.
Parallel Action Aspects of a story happening simultaneously with the primary performer's situation, edited so that the projected images goes back and forth between the primary and secondary scenes (often leading up to a convergence of the two actions)
Racking Focus A shift in focus between planes at different distances from the camera within the shot.
Suture The 'sewing' together of imaginary and symbolic in Hollywood cinema carried out by continuity editing. It serves to ensure the sense of unified narrative and subject position.
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