Saturday, 20 April 2024, 2:10 AM
Site: DIGITAL MEDIA SKILLS GATEWAY
Course: DIGITAL MEDIA SKILLS GATEWAY (DIGITAL MEDIA SKILLS GATEWAY)
Glossary: FILM & TV GLOSSARY
avant garde | |
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artists who are more intellectually or aesthetically advanced than are their contemporaries (if we assume that art is progressing). Avant garde films are generally non-narrative in structure. | |
axis of action | |
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In the continuity editing system, the imaginary line that passes from side to side through a main actors, defining the spatial relations of all the elements of the scene as being to the right or the left. It is also called the 180-degree line. When the camera crosses this axis at a cut, those spatial relations are reversed thereby confusing the audience. It is one of cardinal rules of continuity editing not to cross this axis during a sequence. | |
backlighting | |
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lighting cast onto the figures from the side opposite the camera. It creates a thin outline of light on the figures' edge. | |
boom | |
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a pole upon which a microphone can be suspended above the scene is being filmed and which is used to change the microphone's position as the action shifts. | |
bridging shot | |
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a shot used to cover a jump in time or place or other discontinuity. Falling calendar pages, newspaper headlines, railroad wheels, seasonal changes are some of examples. | |