Monday 21 November 2011

The Grammar of TV and Film.

Basic Terms

Auteur: The author/Director who stamped a film with his or her own personality.

Diegesis: includes objects, events, spaces and the characters that inhabit them, including things, actions and attitudes not explicitly presented in the film but inferred by the audience.

Editing: The joining together of clips of film into a single film strip.

Flashback Flash Forward: A jump backwards or forwards in diegetic time

Focus: Refers to the degree to which light rays coming from any particular part of an object pass through the lens and re converse at the same point on a frame of the film negative, creating sharp outlines and distinct textures that match the original object.

Genres: Types of film recognized by audiences and/or producers, sometimes retrospectively.

Mise-En-Scene: All the things that are 'put in the scene': the setting, the decor, the lighting, the costumes, the performance.

Story/Plot: Refers to all the audience, infers about the events that occur in the diegesis on the basis of what they are shown by the plot.

Scene/Sequence: A segment of a narrative film that usually takes place in a single time, with the same characters.

Shot: A single stream of images, uninterrupted by editing.

Mise-En-Scene

Decor: the objects contained in and around the setting of a scene

Lighting

Three-point lighting

High key lighting

Low-key lighting

Space

Deep Space

Frontality

Matte Shot

Off Screen Space


Shallow space

Costumes: refers to the clothes the actors wear.

Acting

Typage


This research will help me when it comes to evaluating and creating my blog posts as I can use the proper terminology for everything.

2 comments:

  1. and you need to apply it to all areas in the planning stage

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  2. Yes. I did this so that I could familiarise myself with these terms and use them within my planning, therefore hopefully getting me the higher grade I am aiming for.

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