FILM TV 122D Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jump Cut, Thesis Statement, 180-Degree Rule
Week 5
• Simple shot
o No camera movement (a locked down shot)
• Complex shot
o Lens movement
• Zoom
• Rack focus: change focus within a shot
o Camera movement (editing within shot)
• Tilt (up and down)
• Pan (side to side)
o Mount movement
• Handheld (ancient)
• Dolly (hard to tell from dolly to zoom)
• Crane/ jib arm: camera can go up in space
• Steady cam
• Master shot
• Stranger than Paradise
o Simple shot
o Leaves frame left (FL)
o Fade to black
• Color of money
o Rack focus between ball and face, then rack back to ball
• The graduate
o Daughter-- woman-- slowly back to daughter (freeze frame)
• Slow rack: the daughter is becoming clear with things
o Fourth perspective with ceiling: the elder woman is trapped and powerless
• Thirteen
o Cut to compress time
o Freeze frames of details: show subjective view and mind
o Insert shot of the phone number (no POV)
o zoom and tilting: reflect excitement
• Goodfellas
o The first shot: sausage
o The pan following the man coming to the right: smooth
o Switch pan: the pan following his eyes
o Dolly (Zoom in): a sense of importance of the guy, the sense of him thinking
• Zolly/ vertigo shot
o Zooming in while dolly out or vice versa
o We look with him to the tower
o Both run screen left
o POV shot when she goes up
o Fade to black when a chapter is closing
• Zodiac
o Tilt with the mail cart
o Tracking shot when people are assorting the mail
• Touch of evil
o First we see: timer
o Dolly in-- come up high
o Importance of the car sound: we know the car is there whenever we hear
the radio
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Document Summary
Simple shot: no camera movement (a locked down shot, complex shot, lens movement. Stranger than paradise: simple shot, leaves frame left (fl, fade to black, color of money, rack focus between ball and face, then rack back to ball, the graduate, daughter-- woman-- slowly back to daughter (freeze frame) Slow rack: the daughter is becoming clear with things: fourth perspective with ceiling: the elder woman is trapped and powerless, thirteen, cut to compress time, freeze frames of details: show subjective view and mind. Zolly/ vertigo shot: zooming in while dolly out or vice versa, we look with him to the tower, both run screen left, pov shot when she goes up, fade to black when a chapter is closing. Zodiac: tilt with the mail cart, tracking shot when people are assorting the mail, touch of evil, first we see: timer, dolly in-- come up high. Is the cut true to the physically/ spatial relationship within the diegesis.