Midterm Film Comedy

a style of filmmaking characterized by austerity and restraint, in which cinematic elements are reduced to the barest minimum of information

those images that are recorded continuously from the time the camera starts to the time it stops. That is, an unedited strip of film

a shot taken from an angle 180 opposed to the previous shot. That is, the camera is placed opposite its previous position

an avant-garde movement in the arts stressing Freudian and Marxist ideas, unconscious elements, irrationalism, and the symbolic association of ideas. Surrealist movies were produces roughtly from 1924 to 1931, primarily in France, though there are surrealistic elements in the works of many directors, and especially in music videos

a shot taken from a moving vehicle. Originally, tracks were lain on the set to permit a smoother movement of the camera

The basic division of a film, a shot is a continuously exposed and unedited image of any length. Generally, it is composed of a single run of the camera from "action!" to "cut!"

a type of editing in which the shots are arranged to preserve the fluidity of an action without showing all of it. An unobtrusive condensation of the continuous action

transitional sequences of rapidly edited images, used to suggest the lapse of time or the passing of events. Often uses dissolves and multiple exposures. In Europe, montage means the art of editing

a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of (i.e. inter-) the photographed action, at various points, generally to convey character dialogue, or descriptive narrative material related to, but not necessarily covered by, the material photographed.

a group of young French directors who came to prominence during the late 1950s. The most widely known are Francois Truffaut, Juan Luc Godard, and Alin Resnais

Areas that are not shown by the image but sometimes suggested by actions or words within the image. More specifically, off-screen space contains events or sounds from outside the boundaries of the frame. Sometimes we can keep track of what is off-screen because it was once on the screen. If the camera frame is moving, for instance, then off-screen space and on-screen space will gradually change. But even if the camera frame is still, objects and figures can move to off-screen space. The pan and scan video format (turns a widescreen into a fullscreen) introduces another moving frame, essentially re-editing the film and creating off-screen space that was never intended by the director.

the box office appeal of the physical mounting of a film, such as sets, costumes, props, etc

a technique in which a background scene is projected onto a translucent screen behind the actors so it appears that the actors so it appears that the actors are on location in the final image

small scale models photographed to give the illusion that they are full scale objects. For example, ships sinking at sea, giant dinosaurs, aireplanes colliding, etc.

a special effect that permits the superimposition of many images simultaneously