Flashcards
Film studies terminology: camera, editing, sound and theory
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- 1Cinema of Attraction- Showing rather than telling
- Spectacle
- Linked to the the history
- Some Like it Hot (musical sequences) - 2Scopophilia- Narrative Pleasure
- Linked to the Male Gaze
- Some Like it Hot (Monroe) - 3Stop-Motion Photography- Seperate frames put together to show action
- Intricate and time-consuming but very effective
- Coraline (3 years in the making) - 4Identification and Cognition- Identification is where we empathise and project feeling onto a character
- Cognition is how we understand what we watch and respond to it
- Beasts of the Southern Wild - 5Eye Line Match- A shot of an object followed by another shot of the character looking at it
- Follow the action
- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - 6POV- Film shot by one characters visual perspective
- Journey through the eyes of the character
- Beasts of the Southern Wild - 7180 Degree Rule- Primary rule of continuity editing
- One side of the axis of action
- To avoid disorientation
- Some Like it Hot (introduction of Hollywood filmmaking rules) - 8Verisimilitude- Realism on screen and how that is created
- Blurs the real and the fantastical
- The Hunger Games (continuity and sound aiding realism) - 9Continuity Editing- Hollywood system
- Seamless and invisible
- Maintain continuous narrative action
- Real world space and time
- Some Like it Hot (development) - 10Jump Cut- Cutting from one shot to another that is completely different
- Shows different space and time
- Cleo from 5 to 7 (fractured even though it is "real time") - 11Ellipsis- Leaving out parts of a story marked by a transition
- Shows a gap in time
- Use imagination to figure out the unimportant events in time
- What We Do in the Shadows (cut from Jackie driving to mowing the lawn) - 1230 Degree Rule- Camera should move at least 30 degrees from the previous shot
- Preserves spatial unity
- Some Like it Hot (development) - 13Cinecriture- Term coined by Agnes Varda to explain her style of filmmaking
- Cinema as writing
- Extracts the greatest possible resonance from the juxtaposition of sound and image
- Cleo from 5 to 7 - 14Subtext- Underlying or implicit theme
- Often political in nature and has wider worldly links
- Cleo from 5 to 7 - 15Depth of Field- How shallow or deep the field in the shot is
- Tone
- Spectacle
- Coraline (adds to the spectacle) - 16Rack Focus- Focus shifting from one object to another
- Shows power relations
- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - 17Aspect Ratio- Relation of width to height
- How broad or confined the world of the film is
- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - 18Medium Long Shot- Knee up
- 3/4 view
- Shows character in relation to the setting and surroundings
- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - 19Zoom- Smoothly changing focal length
- Illusions of displacement in time and space - 20Slapstick and Splatstick- Humour through something going wrong (combined with splatter horror)
- Adds humour and another genre dimension
- What We Do in the Shadows - 21Cinema Vertie- Observational cinema
- Explains the filmmaking process
- Comments on filmmaking
- Adds humour and layers of meaning
- What We Do in the Shadows - 22Parody- Mocks something familiar
- Intertextuality and transgression
- Social critique or flattery
- What We Do in the Shadows - 23Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony- Leadership or dominance of a group or state
- Counter tries to critique or dismantle this
- 28 days Later - 24Dystopia- Imagined state where everything is bad or unpleasant
- Totalitarian
- Social and political critiques
- The Hunger Games - 25Instrumental and Metaphorical Props- Tool to express thoughts and feelings
- Metaphorical are invested with meaning
- Symbolic or larger ideas
- The Grand Budapest Hotel - 26Pastiche- Combining different time periods
- Shows a patchwork of human history
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (celebrating a lost era) - 27Theatrical Mise-en-Scene- Denaturalises mise-en-scene
- Appears artificial, unnatural or exaggerated
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (elevator) - 28Social Blocking- Arrangement and movement of characters in relation to each other
- Social relations and tensions
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (elevator) - 29Diegetic and Non-Diegetic Sound- Diegetic is sound heard in the world of the film
- Makes a film more or less realistic
- 28 Days Later (music walking around deserted London) - 30Syncronous and Asynchronous Sound- Synchronous matched the movements occurring in the images
- Makes a film more or less realistic
- Singing in the Rain - 31Parallel and Contrapuntal Sound- Parallel matches the meaning of the sound
- Makes the audience think more deeply about a sound or action
- Singing in the Rain - 32Off-screen and On-screen- On-screen you can see the source of the sound
- Realistic
- Evoke an inquisitive and engaged audience
- Singing in the Rain - 33Reflective and Restorative Nostalgia (Boym)- restorative: protects the absolute truth
- reflective: questions truth
- Makes the audience question truth and history
- Good Bye Lenin! (rebuilding home - is it sustainable?) - 34Counter-Narrative- A narrative that goes against the main narrative
- Provides a counter argument and tension
- Good Bye Lenin! - 35Scenic Realism- Realistic settings
- Enables viewers to recognise sets as actual places
- God Bye Lenin! - 36Positive and Negative Parralex- Positive converge behind the screen surface and negative behind
- Depth used to create meaning
- Coraline - 37Cultural Prop- Associated with a particular place in a particular society
- Hints at setting and context
- Good Bye Lenin! - 38Interocular Distance- Distance between the right and left eye that determines the roundness of an object
- Depth used to create meaning
- Coraline - 39Convergence- The act of converging
- Moving towards union or uniformity
- Gives a sense of distance from the object
- Coraline - 40Surrealism- Rich engagement with the material world or reality
- Shows what is hidden in the real world
- Coraline - 41Archetype- Characters so abstracted or reduced that they no longer appear realistic
- Evoke fear or break taboos
- Coraline (other mother) - 42Free Indirect Image- Represents characters discourse
- Articulate the social in modern cinema
- Opening political and ethical dimensions of the time-image
- Beasts of the Southern Wild (Hushpuppy's eyes) - 43Utopia- World representing ideals
- Imagined place where everything is perfect
- Links to political and social ideals
- Coraline (other world before she realises the evil behind it) - 44Magical Realism- Intersection between the mythical and the real
- Access to truth
- Political critiques
- Beasts of the Southern Wild (Hushpuppy's overestimation and access to world) - 45Meta-Text- Things external to the film
- Background information or discussions about the film
- Beasts of the Southern Wild (Hurricane Katrina) - 46Analog/Digital- Analog: old, low resolution
- Digital: new media
- Represents technology and the change in the world or media
- 28 Days Later (sharp, cool feel) - 47The Return of the Repressed- Something that slips from unconscious thought and appears in distorted forms
- Projects the unconscious onto the cinema screen
- Surfacing things we find hard to deal with
- Coraline (her monsters, the tunnel and the hand)
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