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artisanal production

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a production in contrast to the mass production of studio production. A filmmaker, producer, and crew devote their energy to making a single film.


aspect ratio

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the relationship of the television or film frame's width to its height.


associational form

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a type of organisation in which the film's parts are juxtaposed to suggest similarities, contrasts, concepts, emotions, and expressive qualities.


asynchronous sound

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sound that is not matched with image, as when dialogue is out of sync with lip movements


attraction

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Eisenstein's theory of film analyses the image as a series or collection of attractions, each in a dialectical relationship with the others. In this theory, attractions are thus basic elements of film form.



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