Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mise-En-Scène, Long Shot, Lightdark
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Editing: the task of selecting and joining camera takes. The set of techniques that governs relations among shots. Cut: an instantaneous change from one shot to another. Joining of two film strips together w/ splice (old days) Introduces new material, supports forward thrust of film. Cut in: instantaneous shift of distant framing of closer view of some portion of the same space. Xls cu of the same space (in a classroonn) Fade-out: gradually darkens the end of a shot to black. Tends to slow the forward movement of sequence. Dissolve: briefly superimposes the end of shot a and beginning of shot b. When 2 shots appear on screen at the same time. Wipe: shot b replaces shot a by a boundary line moving across the screen. Line eliminates one shot as it goes, replaces w/ another shot. Doesn"t have to be a line, as long as a kind of shot is pushing another one out of the frame.