Across
- 4. Alternates between two separate actions related by theme, mood, or plot, but usually occur at the same time. Its most common function is to create suspense.
- 6. Taken by rotating the camera horizontally while keeping it fixed vertically.
- 10. What the camera records over a particular period of time and forms the basic unit of filmmaking.
- 11. A form of optical transition in which an invisible line moves across the screen, eliminating one shot and revealing the next.
- 12. A nonsynchronous spoken commentary often used to convey a character’s thoughts.
- 13. Also called fictional; Film that tells a story; in many ways it uses the technique of theatre.
- 14. An editing technique in cinema that indicates a compression or elongation of time and includes a rapid succession of images.
Down
- 1. A technique of editing that breaks the continuity of time by moving forward from one part of the action to another that is obviously separated from the 1st by an interval of time, location or camera position. (2 WORDS)
- 2. Film that attempts to record actuality using primarily either a sociological or a journalistic approach.
- 3. If the main object of interest stays clear while the remainder of the scene blurs out of focus.
- 5. The viewpoint in which the scene unfolds as if the audience were actually participating in it, and we see the action from the filmmaker’s perspective.
- 7. Film that tells no story but exists solely as movement or form and rarely exceeds twelve minutes in length.
- 8. The aesthetic communication through the design of time and three-dimensional space compressed into a two-dimensional image.
- 9. Serves the function of converting the mise-en-scene from three-dimensional to two-dimensional space.