Transcript Shot/reverse shot - Barnegat Township School District

Chapter 6 – Cinematography
Cinematography
• Camerawork
• Lenses & filters
• Film stock
• Special visual effects
Scene
• Coherent narrative unit of shots
• Has a beginning middle and end
Storyboard
• Series of drawings that lays out the film
sequentially
Take
• A single uninterrupted series of frames
exposed by a motion picture or camera
between the time it is turned on and the time
it is turned off.
(Filmmakers shoot several takes, the one that is
best is used)
Long take
• Uninterrupted shot of more than one minute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJEEVtqXdK8
Slow Motion
• Recording images at a speed faster than the rate
at which it is projected
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlC-6AOjTRY
Fast Motion
• Recording images at a rate slower than the speed
of projection
Frozen time moment
(Also called Timetrack, time slice, bullet time)
Visual effect that seems to stop time and allows
the viewer to travel around the subject and view
it from a multitude of vantage points
• Combines photography and digital techniques
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPNBdDNZ
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Camera Movement
• Pan- The horizontal turning motion of a fixed
camera
• Swish Pan – A pan executed so quickly it blurs
– usually shows rapid activity or the passage
of time
• Tilt – A vertical up and down motion of a fixed
camera
• Tracking shot – A technique of moving the
camera on a dolly along a specially made
track. Often trace character movement
laterally across the frame.
• Crane shot - A shot taken from a camera
mounted on a crane that moves three
dimensionally in space
• Arial shot – A shot taken from an airplane or
helicopter
• Handheld shots – Manually held camera
shots, usually shaky
• Steadicam – Device worn by camera operator
allowing camera to glide smoothly into spaces
unreachable by camera mounted to crane or
other apparatus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSzjUQ-OsSU
• Rack focus – A change of focus from one plane
of depth to another. As the in focus subject
goes out of focus , the other subject which
had been blurry goes into focus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxMvHS2fU1E
• Trombone shot-A shot where the camera
tracks in toward the subject while the lens
zooms out.
Chapter 7 Editing
Collage
Tempo
Timing
• Graphic Match:
A shot transition that emphasizes the visual
similarities between two consecutive shots
Transitions
• Fade in
• Fade Out
• Dissolve
• Wipe
• Iris in
• Iris Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqDhAW3TDR8
Montage Sequence
A series of related scenes joined through editing
that indicates the passage of time
Parallel Editing
• A technique of cutting back and forth
between action occurring in two different
locations, which often creates the illusion that
they are happening simultaneously.
• Also called “cross cutting”
Tableau Shot
A long shot in which the film frame resembles
the proscenium arch of the stage, distancing the
viewer.
The Great Train Robbery 1903
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7wWOmEGGY
Shot/reverse shot
A standard shot pattern that dictates
that a shot of one character will be
followed by a shot of another character,
taken from the reverse angle of the first
shot
Eyeline Match
• An editing technique using a character’s line
of vision as motivation for a cut.
preserves spatial continuity
Cutaway
• A shot that focuses audience attention on
precise details that may or may not be the
focus of the characters
Establishing Shot
• In standard filming- The first shot. The
purpose is to provide a clear representation of
the location of the action
Reestablishing shot:
A shot that happens during or near the end of a
scene and reorients viewers to the setting