Dystopian Film Vocab Quiz
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This term generally refers to any sounds that are used to establish location.  The sound of a scene in a park, for instance, might include birds chirping, children laughing, or a dog barking.
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The model used in narrative fiction that divides a story into three parts (acts), often called the Setup, the Confrontation and the Resolution.
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Any spoken language not seeming to come from images on the screen. Sometimes, this language can reveal a character's inner thoughts.
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A single photographic image imprinted on a length of film
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A technique used for combining two frames or images by replacing a color or a color range in one frame with that from another frame. It is often used to replace a scene's background by using a blue or green screen as the initial background and placing the actor in the foreground. *
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A method of calibrating the camera to record white as truly as possible. Different types of light cast different hues. By using this method the camera adjust the way whites are perceived, but all other colors will be adjusted as well.
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A nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. Free, easy-to-use copyright licenses that provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice. *
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The main light used for a scene. *
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Light at a very low setting.  This low level of lighting creates dark shadows on the faces of actors and is particularly moody when used with black-and-white film.  It is most often associated with film noir but is not exclusive to that genre. *
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Refers to a secondary source, usually placed behind the actors. *
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Combine (two or more images) to make a single picture, esp. electronically. *
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Sound that characters cannot hear.  The two most common types are voiceovers, which is a character’s narration that plays over any given scene, and music added in post production, which is music used to inflect the mood of a given scene.  Creepy horror-movie music, for instance, that plays when a character is walking into an old house. *
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An individual strip of film consisting of a single shot; the separation of two pieces of action as a "transition". a verb meaning to join shots together in the editing process; or an order to end a take. *
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Also called invisible editing or Classic Hollywood editing.  This system of editing is the system that Classic Hollywood established (though it had been in use before that period) and is essentially the system that exists today.  Understanding this system is crucial to understanding cinema, since even those directors who break with this system are in a sense defining themselves against it.  This system is associated with the following other terms: *
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A series of sketches (resembling a cartoon strip) showing potential ways various shots might be filmed.
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A structural unit of a film using time, location, or some pattern to link together a number of scenes.
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The state of belonging or being available to the public as a whole. No longer subject to copyright as the works intellectual property rights have expired.
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The placement of people or objects within the frame and the arrangements for actual movements within the frame or by the camera. *
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Refers to the shot at a beginning of a film or scene that established location.  For instance, if the setting of a film is 1940s Occupied France, the film might open with a shot of the Eiffel Tower with two Gestapo soldiers in the foreground.  This shot establishes place (and sometimes, as in this example, time). *
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This term refers to the rule that once a spatial relationship has been confirmed with the establishing shot, no close-up will cross the imaginary line drawn between those two actors until a new line (or axis) has been established, usually through another establishing shot. *
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Sound that other characters would be able to hear. A song on a radio, for instance, as a character drives down the highway. *
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Connects two shots cut together by having a character finish an action in the second shot begun in the first shot.  For instance, if a character lights a match in the first shot, the same character will draw it up to a cigarette in the second. *
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These are used to change the properties of a video or audio effect over time. This is a powerful tool that allows editors to manipulate video and audio. *
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