post production midterm short answers

What are the advancements in photography that lead to moving pictures

Film reels (with sprockets)

Early moving pictures had certain characteristics, what were they?

Static camera

What was Edwin s porter known for?

Parallel action and the great train robbery

What was DW Griffith known for?

Father of modern film editing with new editing techniques

Variation of shots for impact

• (ELS,CU,Cutaway,tracking,flashback,parallel action, variations on pace, the notion of the invisible cut)

Who created the theory of montage? And what was his theory?

Eisenstein

Montages are the nerve of cinema, and that “to determine the nature of a montage is to is to solve the specific problem of cinema”

Montage is the idea of the collision of independent shots that don’t appear aside eachother but on top of eachother.

How is montage used today?

Compression of time

What is the kuleshov effect?

If you put two shots together it will automatically form an emotional response from the audience.

How do you know how long a shot should generally stay on screen.

A general rule would be the wider the shot the longer.

What is a cowboy shot?

Mid thigh/slight low angle

How do Dutch angles or tilts effect audiences?

Put audiences off kilter

What’s a cut?

One shot directly to another

What’s a fade

Fade in or fade out from black

What’s a dissolve?

Fade one shot into another

What is a wipe?

Vertical/horizontal/or diagonal switch from a-side to b-side of cut

What is Walter Mitch’s rule of six?

1. Is the edit emotional

2. Does it tell a story

3. Does it serve the rhythm of the scene

4. Does it guide the eye properly

5. Does it maintain 2d geography

6. Does the edit bring coherence to the 3D illusion

What are the three windows in avid

Timeline, bins, composer

What is track patching?

Moving the source video 1 to go to video 2 in the timeline so that it won’t effect anything in video 1

What export setting is the most universal?

H.264

What is the difference between copy and duplicate?

Copy is best for clips/ duplicate is best for sequences.

What is avid attic

Every 15 minutes avid auto saves and sends it to the avid attic.