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Camera shots and Angles Shot: A single piece of film, long or short, exposed continuously without cuts. XLS: Extreme long shot, we can associate this with an establishing shot. LS: A long shot. MLS: Medium long shot MS: Medium shot (plan moyen) MCU: Medium close up (plan rapproché poitrine = journalist) CU: close up BCU: Big Close up (gros plan) XCU: Extreme close up (tres gros plan)

Movements Follow shots ; tracking shot or zoom ; The camera follows the subject as it moves. Tracking shot: Any shot in which the camera moves from one point to another either sideways, in or out. Pan: Movement of the camera from the left to right or right to left around an imaginary vertical axis that runs through the camera. A panning shot is different from a tracking shot. Cut: A switch from one image to another. An edit that simply splices two shots together. Pace: The rhythm of the film. Flashback: A scene or sequence inserted into scene and that deals with the past. Flash cutting: Editing the film into short shots that succeed each other’s rapidly. Cinematography: A term that describes evertything related to the camera in filming: framing, focus, distance, level, angle of the camera.. Set: The location of a scene. Sound effect: All those sounds that are not dialogue or music. Score: The music of the film (partition) Voice over: The narrator voice when the narrator is not seen.

Screenplay: The scenario, the script of a film, shooting scripts. It is produced from the script and includes instruction for the camera and the actors.

History of the Cinema 1895-1910: Cinema in EU = low budget, small scale. 1910-1930: For technical reasons (sun), productions company moved to Hollywood (easy to have lot of different location and easy to have space.) 1/ Modern cinema 2/ Producers create studio Films Company and create the star system. (Actors, directors … ) 3/ Genre: Different studios star making different genre. 1930-1950: The Golden Age of the Hollywood studio system. The GA because the masse audio effect = cinema was cheap. The Hollywood studios controlled the cinemas. It’s a win win situation. “Hollywood dream factory.” MGM Metro Goldwin and Mayer, Paramount, Twenty century fox, RKO, Warner Brothers, Universal… 3 mineurs à l’époque: Universal, Columbia, United Artiste. Studios independent: African American film studio, Yiddish language film 1955-1974: Break up of Hollywood. 1968: Spielberg Georges Lucas.....