An Introduction to Film

a school bus and its aftereffects on the townspeople who have lost children. Two principal characters voice the narration—the bu ...

GLOSSARY 537 color As related to sound, see quality. colorization The use of digital technology, in a process similar to hand-ti ...

A special category of sound effects—Fol ey sounds—was invented in the 1930s by Jack Foley, a sound technician at Universal Studi ...

transcend the meanings of the individual shots that have been joined together. dissolve Also known as lap dissolve. A transition ...

In Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull(1980; sound: Frank Warner), brutal tape-recorded sounds from boxing matches are mixed with soun ...

GLOSSARY 539 [1], the character’s face, with his/her eyes clearly visible, then [2], whatever the character was looking at. When ...

the filmic medium, particularly the narrative.”^5 Such music can be classical or popular in style, written specifically for the ...

full-body shot See long shot. fusil photographique A form of the chronophotographic gun (see revolver photographique)—a single, ...

sounds of brass and percussion instruments and songs by the Propellerheads and Rage against the Machine to match the world of th ...

GLOSSARY 541 K key light Also known as main lightor source light. The brightest light falling on a subject. kinesis The aspect o ...

such as Paul Greengrass’s The Bourne Supremacy (2004; composer: John Powell), could become rou- tine if the music did not change ...

minor character A supporting characterin a movie. Minor characters have fewer traits than major characters, so we know less abou ...

composer: David Raksin), about which Royal S. Brown writes: Almost every piece of music, diegetic and nondiegetic, heard in the ...

GLOSSARY 543 that keeps the action on a single side of the camera; (2) the camera must shoot consistently on one side of that li ...

Finally, film music may emanate from sources within the story—a television, a radio or stereo set, a person singing or playing a ...

production designer A person who works closely with the director, art director, and director of photography, in visualizing the ...

rately to the images. In recording an original score, the conductor and musicians work on a specially equipped recording stage, ...

GLOSSARY 545 scene A complete unit of plotaction incorporating one or more shots; the settingof that action. scope The overall r ...

the leader the courage to resist death and thus save the group. The other men awaken; they, of course, have not seen or heard an ...

Stanislavsky system A system of acting, developed by Russian theater directorKonstantin Stanislavsky in the late nineteenth cent ...