FILM & TV GLOSSARY
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expressionism | ||
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an approach that makes liberal use of technical devices and artistic distortion and in which the personality of the director is always paramount and obvious. See German expressionism and formalism. | ||
external diegetic sound | ||
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sound represented as coming from a physical source within the story space and which we assume characters in the scene also hear. See internal diegetic sound. | ||
extreme close up | ||
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a framing in which the scale of object is very large; most commonly, a small object or a part of the body. Also called detail shot | ||
extreme close-up | ||
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a framing in which the scale of object is very large; most commonly, a small object or a part of the body. Also called detail shot | ||
extreme long shot | ||
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a framing in which the scale of the object shown is very small; a panoramic view of an exterior location photographed from a considerable distance, often as far as a quarter-mile away. | ||