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ECU

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See extreme close up

editing (1)

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in filmmaking, the task of selecting and joining camera takes.

editing (2)

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in the finished film, the set of techniques that governs the relationship among shots.

ellipsis

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the shortening of plot duration achieved by omitting intervals of story duration.

elliptical editing

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shot transitions that omit parts of an event, causing ellipsis in plot and story duration.

epic theatre

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in Brecht's theory, theatre that appeals more to the audience's reason than to his feeling. See estrangement effect and theatre of cruelty.

establishing shot

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a shot, usually involving a distant framing, that shows the spatial relations among the important figures, objects, and setting in a scene.

estrangement effect

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In Brecht's theory, the desirable effect which keeps both audience and actors intellectually separate from the action of the drama. It provides intellectual distance.

exploitation film

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a film designed to serve a particular need or desire of the audience. Examples include blaxploitation, sexploitation, etc.

exposure

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a measure of the amount of light striking the surface of the film. Overexposed film gives a very light, washed out, dreamy quality to the print image while underexposed makes the image darker, muddy, and foreboding.

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.

eyeline match

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a cut obeying the axis of action principle, in which the first shot shows a person looking off in one direction and the following shot shows a nearby space containing what he or she sees. If the person looks left, the following shot should imply that the looker is off-screen right.

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