Jump cut:
A jump cut is a cut in film editing in which two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly. This type of edit gives the effect of jumping forwards in time.
Shot Reverse Shot:
When one character is shown looking at another character and then the other character looks back at the first character. The view thinks they are looking at each other.
Flash Back:
A scene in a movie that goes back in time from the original date the movie is set in.
Flash Forward:
Is an interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story.
Cut:
A transition from one shot to another
Close up:
When the camera shot gets close to what it was filming. For example, zooming in to someones face.
Cut away:
Showing the reaction of one character to another.
Dissolve:
An overlapping transtion between scenes where one image fades out as another fades in.
Eye line match:
When two people are talking and the camera is only facing one of them, their eye line needs to still be looking like they are facing each other.
Montage:
A selection of photos, videos and music all played at a quick speed to show something that happend over a long period of time. The video will be shorter than the period of time it is representing.
Continuity:
Where there are no cuts. Or so they are not visible. So that it seems like it is a smooth film with no edits.
Tuesday, 16 September 2014
Overhead establishing shot – what does this achieve?
This helps the audience familiarize with the location. It also shows the positions of the chararcters and how the actions are going to take place.
What is Shot-Reverse-Shot?
This is when the shots cut from one person to another and then back to the first person again. It is to show two people having a conversation.
What is Eye-line matching?
This is when two chararcters are talking to each other and you make sure that their eyeline in each shot is looking up at each other. For example, if someone is standing up they will be lokoing down and the person sitting down will be looking up.
Why do we cut to the other members of the group?
We cut to the other memebers of the group so that we can see all of their reactions to what is happening. This helps us understand the atmospher of the scene.
What is a wipe?
A wipe is when you cut from location and time straight to another. For example, a group of people sitting in a pub set in the present, cutting to a shot of an abandoned building two weeks prior.
What is the effect of using quick cuts?
It creates a fast ryhthm which keeps the story moving along and the audience on their toes.
This helps the audience familiarize with the location. It also shows the positions of the chararcters and how the actions are going to take place.
What is Shot-Reverse-Shot?
This is when the shots cut from one person to another and then back to the first person again. It is to show two people having a conversation.
What is Eye-line matching?
This is when two chararcters are talking to each other and you make sure that their eyeline in each shot is looking up at each other. For example, if someone is standing up they will be lokoing down and the person sitting down will be looking up.
Why do we cut to the other members of the group?
We cut to the other memebers of the group so that we can see all of their reactions to what is happening. This helps us understand the atmospher of the scene.
What is a wipe?
A wipe is when you cut from location and time straight to another. For example, a group of people sitting in a pub set in the present, cutting to a shot of an abandoned building two weeks prior.
What is the effect of using quick cuts?
It creates a fast ryhthm which keeps the story moving along and the audience on their toes.
What is Editing?
Editing is the proccess of selecting from different shots and putting them together to make a story.
What is Elliptical Editing?
Elliptical Edinting is editing that allows us to fill in the gaps moving the story on more quickly
What is 'non-diagetic' sound?
It is a note of usi cplaying along side the natural sound, that the viewer can hear but the actor can not.
How do we know she is bending down to pick up the ring?
We know she is bending down to pick up the ring because it follows the previous shot of her looking down. Cutting two images together makes it a quicker proccess. (eyeline mayching)
Why are long shots used?
Long shots are used so that the viewer can understand everything that is happening around the character and so they also can see the emotion of the scene. In this film it shows us that she is alone.
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