CINE 202: CH 1-5 & 11 terms
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- Proposal
- short, sweet, and to the point
- Treatment
- film as you see it written down, description, present tense
- budget
- accounting of what every aspect of the movie costs
- storyboard
- a sequential series of illustrations, stills, rough sketches and/or captions of events, as seen through the camera lens, that outline the various shots
- script
- the prescribed form as a series of master scenes, with all the dialogue provided and the essential actions and character movements described
- emulsion
- soft top layer of film stock, light sensitive material
- base
- firm flexible suport material that the emilsion rests on
- raw stock
- unexposed film: negative, reversal, color, and black & white
- negative
- most professional films, after film is developed renders a scene with reversed tonalities
- reversal
- show a normal image as soon as they are developed
- original camera negative
- any film that was shot by a camera, as opposed to a print or intermediate copy
- ASA
- specific number used to measure Film Speed. Same as I.E. and I.S.O. A.S.A. stands for American Standards Association, the organization that standardized the scale of measurement of film speed
- Film Speed
- sensitivity to light of a particular type of film for proper exposure
- contrast
- measures the seperation of tones (lights and darks) in an image
- perforations
- holes on side of the film used to progress fim through the camera
- key number
- numbers that track the footage, allow each frome of the film to be identified by number
- sprockets
- teeth on a roller designed to engage with the perforations in film
- film core
- plastic hub used to hold film without a reel
- film gate
- opening on a camera just behind the lens, through which a single frame is exposed
- aperture
- rectangle through which light from the lense shines, defines the border of the image. Diameter of the lense
- shutter
- blocks light from the film when it is moving between successive exposures
- claw
- pulls down each frame for film exposure and holds it steady in the film gate during exposure
- lense
- focuses light from the world into the film
- lense mount
- receptacle where the lense is attached to the camera
- pressure plate
- holds film flat during exposure
- aperture plate
- plate between the lense and the fillm
- viewfinder
- allows the camera operator to see what image is being recorded on the film
- rexflex viewfinder
- diverts light coming through the lense to a viewfinder
- mirrored shutter system
- light is diverted form the lense to a viewfinder screen by a mirror shtter
- beam-splitter system
- partially reflecting mirror or prism in the light path diverting some of the light to the viewfinder, takes some light away from film exposure
- diopter adjustment
- part of the viewfinding system that can be adjusted to compensate for your own particular eyesight, allowing you to see the groundglass clearly
- eyepiece
- what you use to see what you are shooting, problem with letting in extra light
- film chamber
- light-tight compartment that holds the film before and after it is exposed to the light
- motor
- supplies the power to run the film past the lense for exposure
- spring-wound
- type of motor that is hand-cranked before shooting
- electric
- type of motor
- supply reel
- reel with unexposed film
- take-up reel
- empty reel, used to gather up film after it has been exposed
- magazine
- detachable film chambers with one or two light-proof chambers that hold film
- exposure
- time x intensity
- variable shutter
- shutter angle can be narrowed to change the shutter speed
- standard speed
- film projection speed 24 fps
- slow motion
- shot at faster than 24 fps but projected as normal
- fast motion
- shot at slower than 24 fps but projected as normal
- undercranking
- to run the camera slower, producing fast motion
- time-lapse
- single frame shooting used to dramatically speed up action over a long period of time. Typically where a single frame is shot after a consistent pause
- Aaton
- quiet camera used to sync-sound filming (company name)
- Bolex
- 16mm camera (company name)
- Arriflex
- camera company
- variable-speed motor
- runs a camera at speed faster or slower than sound speed, used in cameras not intended for sync sound work
- Barney
- used to dampen camera noise
- registration
- refers to the steadiness of the image, the cameras ability to expose each frame in the same place relative to the sprocket holes
- ditty bag
- cinematograpjers's or assisant's bag
- tripod
- three-legged camera support
- fluid head
- have a built-in hydraulic dampening device to make panning much easier
- focal plane
- where light rays are brought back to a point
- zoom lense
- have a range of focal lengths, allowing you to change focal length during a shot
- prime lenses
- have only one focal length (fixed focal length lenses)
- fast lenses
- fow low light filming, lens with a very wide maximum aperture (small f-stop number)
- slow lenses
- lens with a relatively small maximum aperture (large f-stop number), can’t let in a lot of light
- focal length
- distance from the lense to the focal plane, power of lense to bend light rays coming from the subject.
- perspective
- the rate at which objects become smaller the farther they are from the camera
- wide-angle
- shorter focal length than normal, 10mm (fish eye)
- standard
- normal or medium focal length, 25mm
- telephoto
- longer focal length than normal, long lense 75mm, extreme close up
- f-stop
- speed of the lense, ratio between the focal length of the lense and its diameter (aperature)
- iris diaphragm
- inside the lense, can close down to control the amount of light it lets through
- depth of field
- the zone, measured in in terms of near distance and far distance from the camera, where the image appears acceptable sharp
- circle of confusion
- any point that is nearer or farther from the camera than the plane of critical focus registers as a circle on film instead of a point
- sharpness
- how clear the image can be
- flare
- caused by light striking the lens and either fogging the image, or causing a little row of polygons (the silhouette of the iris) to appear from the light hitting the surfaces of the many elements in the lens
- incident light
- amount of light falling on the objects
- reflective light
- light that is reflected from the object, measured with a reflected light sensor at the camera
- key light
- brightest light, casts the primary shadow
- fill light
- fills in the shadows cast by the key light without casting shadows of its own
- backlight
- placed on the opposite side of the subject from the camera, produces highlights on hair/back of subject
- ambient light
- the natural light (usually soft) or surrounding light around a subject in a scene
- available light
- the naturally-existing light in an off-set location
- hi-light
- the use of thin beams of light to illuminate selected or limited parts of the subject
- intensity
- decreases the further from the light source you go
- color temperature
- measurement of the color of light, and film is very sensitive to color temperature
- lighting contrast
- relationship in light intensity between the brightly lit areas and the shadow areas
- diffusion
- spreads the light, disrupts the hard parallel rays and cuts down the light's intensity
- soft-light
- light is less directional
- head
- small round clamp, usually used in conjunction with an arm on a C-Stand
- tungsten
- artificial light
- quartz
- bulbs that employ a tungstn filament surrounded by halogen gas encased in a quartz glass bulb
- halogen
- the gas contained in the lamp of a Quartz Light, which prolongs the life of the tungsten filament
- barndoors
- block the beam from going where you don't want it
- flood
- a lamp that provides general diffuse lighting on a studio set
- spot
- most controllable kind of lighting
- reflector
- a white or silver card used for soft indirect lighting of the subject by bouncing light off the card. Can also be used to provide a gentle brightening of shadow areas
- space blanket
- foil sheet taped to make an excellent reflecting surface on a dark or colored wall
- flag
- large black cloth on a frame used on a shoot to keep light out of part of the composition
- scrim
- circular wire mesh screens that can be placed in front of a lighting unit to reduce the intensity
- silk
- white silk material mounted on frames, they cut down the light while diffusing it somehow
- 3-point lighting
- use key light, fill light, and back light
- day for night
- shooting night scenes during the day, by using filters and underexposure