WSTC22H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Zoom Lens, Tracking Shot, Eyeline Match
9 Dec 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
General film vocabulary: film grammar: a film can be broken down into sequences, scenes, shots and frames. Frame: a frame is a single still image (equivalent to a letter). Shot: a shot is a continuous, unedited piece of film of any length (equivalent to a word). Sequence: a sequence is a moderately large segment of film, involving one complete stretch of action. A sequence can combine a number of scenes that constitute a narrative unit (equivalent to a paragraph): shots. Establishing shot: a shot, usually involving a distant framing, that shows the spatial relations among the important figures, objects and settings in a scene. Reestablishing shot: a return to a view of an entire space after a series of closer shots following the establishing shot. Extreme long shot: a framing in which the scale of the object shown is very small; a building, landscape, or crowd of people will fill the screen.
