Fall 2012 HUM 3321 Midterm Study Guide Film Terms dark films like film noir B Films low budget commercial motion picture films not made with the same standards as main stream films Blind Bidding the practice by film distributers of requiring theatre owners not owned by the studio company to bid for and book a movie without seeing it This takes place during the licensing of movies for first run Block Booking a system of selling multiple films to a theatre as a unit It was banned by the Paramount Case of Clearances Movies that have been put away so no one can see It is pulled for 7 to 30 days Time in between two Close up extreme medium MEDIUM Half way between a mid shot and a close up Usually covers the subjects head and shoulders EXTREME the shot is so tight that only a detail of the subject such as someone s engagements 1948 runs of a film eyes can be seen Cut one scene to another Dissolve fade in fade out at the same time for two pictures Establishing shot A shot that tells or gives you a clue of where you are or where the movie is taking place Usually at the beginning but can be later Fade the scene slowly goes to dark when scene is exiting Crane Shot tracking an item up or down as it moves on a crane Crosscutting Parallel Editing simultaneous actions two different storylines different scenes going on at the same time Deep Focus everything in the scene is focused the foreground background people etc Diegetic sounds music heard by the character in the film Non Diegetic sounds not heard by characters in the film such as the soundtrack Dolly Shot camera on a cart or dolly that is tracking an item as it moves Dream Factories Hollywood was called this before the age of vhs dvd because it constantly produced an intangible product Ex Disney Genre movie category or type helps market the movie Freeze Frame one shot is printed in a single frame several times in order to make an interesting illusion of a still photograph Music keeps going the image freezes God s Eye View stationary camera looking down directly overhead and not used much Helicopter Shot a camera shot taken by a helicopter High Angle shot camera looking up at something sometimes used to display a powerful character Low Angle shot camera looking down at something unpowerful character Iris in Iris out closing or opening on camera like an eye Used in James Bond High Key Lighting bright areas dominate frame lots of fill light Low Key Lighting dark areas dominate frame little to no fill light Mise en scene means literally putting on the stage and refers to everything the director wants us to see in a camera shot Montage a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space time and information The slowing down or speeding up of time Used to suggest the passage of time Pan horizontal movement of camera lens Point of view shot editing has to have THREE SHOTS the character looks at something POV of what he sees and the character s reaction Motion Pictures Patent Company Movie Palaces large cathedral like buildings where movies were shown huge seating segregated united America same movies shown at different palaces at same time Nickelodeon in the early 1900 s audience went here to view very short and inexpensive films they were usually storefront shops Paramount Case 1948 caused the end of the Hollywood movie industry monopoly in 1948 Process Shot a shot in which action takes place in front of a screen on which an image already filmed is projected Like in Friends where there are shots of cars driving behind them while filming them driving Production Code aka Hays Code or Hays Production Code the set of industry moral censorship guidelines that governed the production of most United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 19 Runs length of time a film is in a theatre 1st run goes to the theatre owned by the studio How many times a film Shot a series of frames that runs for an uninterrupted period of time Generally filmed with a single camera and continues to be shown can be any duration Steadicam camera is in a backpack a brand of camera stabilizing mount for motion picture cameras that mechanically isolates it from the operator s movement Acts as the view of a character in the group scene Tilt vertical movement of camera lense Tracking Shot anything that tracks or follows an item as it moves can have cuts Could be on a dolly or crane Vertical Integration the type of economic institution of the Hollywood movie industry until 1948 Manage every aspect of supply production and output Voice Over Narration voice in a film that is non diegetic Wipe literally wiping the screen or a transitional device in which one image slowly replaces another by pushing the other out of the way Match on action the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot s action camera watches someone go out the door and another camera captures them from the other side Shot reverse shot one character is shown looking at another character often off screen and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other one answer Zones movies only in certain areas Zoom A shot accomplished with a lens capable of smoothly and continuously changing focal lengths Rack Focus shifting focus on different parts of a shot Hegemony the social cultural ideological or economic influence exerted by a dominant group When one group asserts influence or pressure over another group Miscegenation sexual relations between people of different races or ethnic groups Misogyny the fear or hatred of women Homophobia fear or hatred of homosexuals Social Consent important to maintaining hegemony society allows it to happen Romans noir black novel novels used to make film noir Romantic Comedy light hearted humorous plotlines centered on romantic ideals RSA Althusser states that there is only one of these which supports the ruling class ideology through the use of potential violence Repressive State Apparatus Examples military police courts ISA According to Althusser education is one of these which helps keep the ruling ideology in place Ideological State Apparatus Changes your mind and causes people to be conditioned a certain way and causes people to consent to the RSA must be congruent with ruling class ideology Interpolated Subject subject of the ISA and RSA that allows the ruling ideology to happen told
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