An Introduction to Film

original filmmakers to be seen in black and white. The unimpressive results were limited by the state of computer graphics at th ...

MAJOR APPROACHES TO EDITING: CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY 367 looks into her eyes, an eye-line match cut joins a shot of her eye ...

between those who are devout Christians (dressed most often in white or gray costumes) and those nonbelievers who have only doub ...

Point-of-View Editing Point-of-view editingis the process of editing different shots together in such a way that the resulting s ...

climactic game in which the figure of Death (in a black cowl) plays with black pieces, while the Knight, who has returned from t ...

MAJOR APPROACHES TO EDITING: CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY 369 1 3 5 7 2 4 6 8 ...

sophisticated, these distinctions held together the narratives of countless films in diverse genres. After tonality, the next th ...

and satisfaction are echoed on the sound track: Van Morrison’s “So Quiet in Here,” which contains the lyric “This must be what p ...

waves on our eyes and optical nervous system, meaning that we perceive these different wave- lengths of energy as different colo ...

Dissolve Also called a lap dissolve, the dissolveis a transitional device in which shot B, superim- posed, gradually appears ove ...

used color film strategically, like the widescreen aspect ratio, to lure people away from their televi- sion sets and back into ...

372 CHAPTER 8EDITING 1 2 3 Fade-in and fade-out In Cries and Whispers(1972; editor: Siv Lundgren), Ingmar Bergman builds the emo ...

the lighting shapes the way the movie looks and helps tell the story. As a key component of compo- sition, lighting creates our ...

Freeze-Frame The freeze-frame(also called stop-frame or hold-frame) is a still image within a movie, created by repetitive print ...

filmmaking is the softlight, which creates a very soft, diffuse, almost shadowless light. Another piece of lighting equipment, t ...

Yoyotte). The poignant freeze-frame close-up of young Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) that concludes the movie not only stops ...

1 2 Lighting and settingA good way to understand the importance of how lighting influences our impressions of the setting is to ...

LOOKING AT EDITING 375 uses is to portray both participants in a telephone conversation simultaneously on the screen. Unlike par ...

essential of these three sources. The overall char- acter of the image is determined mainly by the rela- tionship between the ke ...

376 CHAPTER 8EDITING You can most effectively analyze an editor’s con- tributions to a film by examining individual scenes and t ...