pan | |
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movement of camera from left to right or vice versa on a stationary tripod. On the screen, it produces a mobile framing which scans the space horizontally. Not to be confused with tracking shot. | |
pantheon | |
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the system of rating directors in hierarchical categories common to the auteur policy. Pantheon directors are the highest rated. | |
persona | |
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from the Latin for "mask", a character in a literary, cinematic, or dramatic work. More precisely, the psychological image of the character that is created, especially in the relationship to the other levels of reality. | |
pixilation | |
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a form of single-frame animation in which three-dimensional objects, often people, are made to move in staccato bursts through the use of stop-action cinematography thereby breaking the illusion of the continuous movement. | |
plan americain | |
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a framing in which the scale of the object shown is moderately small; the human figure seen from the shins to the head would fill the most of screen; so named by the French critics who found this the most frequent framing in American movies. This is also referred to as a medium long shot, especially when human figures are not shown. | |
plan-sequence | |
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French term for a scene handled in a single shot, usually a long take; often referring to complex shot including complicated camera movements and actions. Also called sequence shot. | |
plot | |
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in a narrative film, all the events that are directly presented in the film, including their causal relations, chronological order, duration, frequency, and spatial locations; as opposed to story, which is the viewer's imaginary construction of all the events in the narrative. | |
poetic film | |
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non-narrative film, often experimental. Jonas Mekas' phrase to distinguish New American Cinema from commercial, narrative film. | |
point-of-view(POV) shot | |
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a shot taken with the camera placed approximately where the character's eyes would be, representing what the character sees; usually cut in before or after a shot of the character looking. | |
post synchronization | |
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the process of adding sound to images after they have been shot and assembled; includes dubbing of voices, inserting diegetic music or sound effects. It is opposite of direct sound | |
process shot | |
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any shot involving rephotography to combine two or more images into one, or to create a special effects; also called composite shot. | |
pull-back shot | |
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a tracking shot or zoom that moves back from the subject to reveal the context of the scene. | |
pushover | |
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a type of wipe in which the succeeding image appears to push the preceding one off the screen. | |