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New Media
Midter
28
English
Undergraduate 3
10/09/2012

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Term
Auteur
Definition
French for "author". A directors personality influence on a film
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Bleeds
Definition
An incomplete frame that resembles timelessness
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Costume
Definition
Clothes worn by an actor to fit charachter
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Cyborg
Definition
Cybernetic organism, hybrid of machine and organism, creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction
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Deep Space
Definition
Elements of an image are positioned both close to and distant from the camera.
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Diegesis
Definition
Includes objects, events, spaces and the characters that inhabit them.
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Editing
Definition
The joining together of clips of film into a single filmstrip through different cuts
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Flashback/Flash forward
Definition
When used the order of events in the plot no longer matches the order of events in the story.
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Focus
Definition
sharp outlines used make the audience concentrate on a particular location
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Frontality
Definition
An object in a plane parallel to the plane of the picture surface
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High-Key Lighting
Definition
Lighting scheme in which the fill light is raised to almost the same level as the key light.
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Hypertext
Definition
Connects you to other pages of information
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Links/Nodes
Definition
Links are the connectors & Nodes are the info
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Low key lighting
Definition
Lighting scheme that uses little fill light creating strong contrasts and shadows
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Decor
Definition
objects contained in and the setting of a scene.
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Matte Shot
Definition
shot where two images (usually background and foreground) are combined using an optical printer.
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Medium (McLuhan)
Definition
Any extension of the self
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Mise-En-Scene
Definition
Everything that appears before the camera
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Multimodal
Definition
What you do. WRITING
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Offscreen Space
Definition
Space that exists in the diegesis but that is not visible in the frame.
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Rear Projection
Definition
provides an economical way to set films in exotic or dangerous locations
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Remediation
Definition
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Scene / Sequence
Definition
Scene is part of a film that takes place in a single time and place. Sequence is longer
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Shallow Space
Definition
the image is staged with very little depth.
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Shot
Definition
A single stream of images, uninterrupted by editing.
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Story / Plot
Definition
story refers to all the audience infers, The order, duration, and setting of those events, as well as the relation between them, all constitute elements of the plot.
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Three-point lighting
Definition
Background, key, and fill
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Typage
Definition
Selection of actors based on appearance
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