FS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Zoom Lens, Bullet Time, Time-Lapse Photography
Document Summary
Cinematography: a general term for all the manipulations of the film strip by the camera in the shooting phase and by the laboratory in the developing phase. the shot the scene the sequence shot. The shot: building block of a scene, in shooting, one uninterrupted run of the camera to expose a series of frames. Also called a take: in a finished film, one uninterrupted image within a single static or mobile framing. A unit of dramatic action that takes place in one location during a single time period. A coherent unit: one that has its own beginning, middle and end. The long take a shot of unusually long duration (the textbook says a minimum 1 minute) A single shot or long take that covers an entire sequence or scene from beginning to end. The height at which the camera is placed. The camera"s height most frequently approximates an eye-level shot.