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Animation Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Coherence | is unity |
| Complexity | creates a multiplicity of relations among many separate formal elements And tends to create intriguing patterns of feelings and meanings |
| Conventions | You the viewer form expectations Based on prior life experiences/the filmmaker cannot avoid relating his film in some way to other works of art and to aspects of the world in which we live |
| Costume | what characters wear. This signifies who they are. It can advertise particular fashions and also provides a distinction between characters |
| Curiosity | the ability of viewer to wonder about prior events has a project forward To expectations |
| Deep space | utilizes significant elements of an image. This uses both near to the distant from camera. The camera does not need to be in focus on all elements |
| Emotion | plays a huge role in our experience and appreciation of form/film critic must make a distinction betweenEmotions represented in the film and then emotional response to the film |
| Evaluate | is to form an opinion about the artwork's goodness or badness |
| Expectation | as a pattern of the film provides a filmmaker with several tools to get you involvedSuch as suspense, surprise, and curiosity to name a few |
| Explicit meaning | openly asserted or obvious meaning/usually in language and often near the film's beginning and end |
| Film form | of an overall system of relations that we can perceive among the elements in the whole film (The method and manner in which parts fit together to make a whole) |
| Frontality | staging of element,Often human, so the camera square to face |
| High key lighting | the fill light is raised to almost the same level as the key light. This produces images that are usually very brightAnd feature few shadows on principal subjects |
| Implicit meaning | goes beyond what is explicitly stated in the film |
| intensity of effect | striking, vivid,Emotionally engaging |
| Lighting | helps to focus attention on particular element or composition./The intensity, direction, and quality of lighting have a profound effect on the way an image is perceive. This also affects the way color is given Hue and depth |
| low-key lighting | a scheme that employs very little fill light creating strong contrast between the brightness and darkest parts of an image and often crating strong shadows that its gear parts of the principal subjects |
| Matte shot | process in which two photographic images (usually background and foreground) are combined into a single image using an optical printer/are used to add elements to realistic scene or to create fantasy spaces |
| Media RES | In the middle of events already happening |
| mise-en-scene | representation of space affects the reading of a film. Depth, proximity, size and proportions can be manipulated through camera placement and lenses, lighting,decor, effectively determining mood or relationships between elements in the digenetic world |
| moral criteria | Films representation of a revised system in a Culture society |
| Motif | formal repetitions in film and any significant repeated elements in a film |
| Narration | the flow of a story. This can hold back some information to invoke curiosity or surprise. This is the way the story information comes from the plot |
| Narrative elements | constitutes the film's story/Choices made by the filmmakers in order to create the actual film and portray the narratives |
| Originality | fresh experience for new take on ordinary themes |
| Parallelism | Two or more scenes that are similar to each other but which gain meaning because of their differences. |
| Progression | means development, is movement from beginning through the middle to the end of the story |
| Realistic criteria | An evaluation based on how closely the film approximates real-life |
| Rear projection | provides an economical way to set films in exotic or dangerous locations without having to transport expensive stars or endure demanding conditions |
| Referential meaning | refers to things or places already invested with significance |
| Shallow space | the image is staged with very little depth. The figures in the image occupy the same or closely positioned planes |
| Space | where the story happens. Sometimes a character may describe events and places we don't see |
| Stylistic elements | can be technical Or artistic and include mise-en-scene , Cinematology, editing, and sound |
| Surprise | the result of expectation that is revealed to be incorrect |
| Suspense | involves a delay in fulfilling an established expectation |
| Symptomatic meeting | to understand a films explicit or implicit meanings has bearing traces of a particular set of social values |
| Temporal duration | screen duration is how long the movie lasts.Examples: North by Northwest takes four days or Citizen Kane lasts a whole lifetime |
| Temporal frequency | a story event is presented more than once, often presented from a different viewpoint or by a different narrator |
| Temporal order | flashback is simply a story incident out of order.Examples include BACD or FlashForward might be ABDC |
| Time | cause and effects are basic to narrative But they take place in time |
| Typage | refers to the selection of actors on the basis that their facial or bodily featuresReadily convey the truth of the character and actor they play |
| Narrative | the depiction in the medium of film of a series of events in cause and effect relationship occurring in time. |
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