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1.1VOCABULARY:
Cinema - The production of movies as an art or industry.
Persistence of Vision - Aphenomenon whereby the retina retains a brief afterimage of something seen.
Critical Flicker Fusion – The point at which a rapidly flashing light appears continuous.
Apparent Motion – The point at which rapidly presented images appear to move smoothly.
Celluloid - A flexible transparent strip used to capture images.
Intermittent Motion - Motion that is not continuous.
Maltese Cross Gear - Two gears designed so that one gear uses intermittent motion.
Kinetoscope – A box containing a motion picture viewable through a peep hole.
Projector - A device with a system of lenses used to project slides of film onto a screen.
Film Studio - A room from which various films are produced and recorded.
Black Maria - A studio invented by Edison that rotates to admit sunlight.
Patent - A government license conferring the sole right to exclude others from making, using or selling and invention.
Special Effects - Illusions or visual tricks used in film.
Cutting -Severing a length of film into two pieces.
Splicing - Attaching two separate pieces together using tape.
Chiaroscuro - The use of strong contrast between light and dark in images.
Fill Light – Lighting used to soften shadows on a subject.
1.2VOCABULARY:
Shutter – A mechanical iris that opens and closes to block light.
Vitaphone Disc – A disc separate from a film reel synched to play sound meant to be paired with video.
Reel - A cylinder on which celluloid is wound.
Soundtrack – The part of a film strip containing all of a film’s sound.
Pantomime – Conveying meaning using nothing more than exaggerated gestures and facial expressions.
Synchronization –Any process ensuring that audio and video occur simultaneously in film.
Talkies - Films that include sound and spoken dialogue.
Blimp - A box or hood covering a camera in order to block sound.
Boom Mic - A microphone suspended on a stick used to record sound.
Foley Stage - A studio designed to fake sound effects for use in a film.
Silent Film - A film with no synchronized recorded sound or dialogue.
1.3VOCABULARY:
Auditory – Of or related to the sense of hearing.
The Elements of Sound – Speech, music and noise.
Diegetic Sound – Sound that naturally inhabits the scene being filmed.
Non-Diegetic Sound – Sound that does not naturally inhabit the scene being filmed.
Musical Score – Background music composed by an orchestra for a film.
Bass – Low, deep, heavy sound.
Voiceover – Dialogue in film not accompanied by an image of the speaker.
Dialogue Overlap – Arranging a cut so that dialogue beginning in shot A continues in shot B.
1.4VOCABULARY:
Wild Sound – Sound recorded on set while the camera is not running.
Takes – An unedited attempt to record a useable shot.
Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR) – A technique where actors use lip-sync to re-record dialogue.
Voiceover – Dialogue in film not accompanied by an image of the speaker.
Dissonance – Clashing chord combinations that create tension, suspense.
Leitmotif – A recurring musical theme associated with a particular character, object or idea.
Genre – The expectations and conventions typical of films belonging to a given type or category.
Show-Business – Theater, movies, television and pop music as a profession or industry.
Choreography – The art of planning the movement of a group of performers.
Musicals – (conventions of this genre include all of the bulleted entries below …)
- Pre-recorded musical numbers and lip-synching.
- Musicals tend to be brightly lit and filled with colorful costumes and settings.
- Most are optimistic, light-hearted stories that feature romance and comedy.
- Settings and themes tend to involve elements of show-business.
- Characters tend to express their strongest emotions through song and dance.
- Cameras tend to be very mobile in order to draw attention to the choreographic elements of the film.
Theme – A concept or idea explored throughout a work of literature, art or film.
Symbolism –An object that has deeper meaning associated with it in literature, art or film.