Blog task 1: ‘Glossary’

 

Mise en scene: Mise en scene is a French theatrical expression, that means ‘Put into the scene’ in English. It describes everything in a frame, including the setting, costume, lighting, and acting.

 

Shot reverse shot: Shot reverse shot is a frequently used film technique, where a character can be seen looking at someone (another character), then this other character is shown looking at the first character. The characters are shown looking at different directions, this way the audience thinks that they are looking at each other. It is mostly used in dialogue sequences. It uses the ‘eye line match’, the 180 degree rule, and many more.

 

Pan: ‘Panning’ means to rotate the camera (On its vertical or horizontal axis) in order to keep a moving person or an object in the view of the camera. For a ‘Panning shot’ a slower shutter speed should be selected than normal.

 

 

Track: A ‘Tracking Shot’ is where the camera is placed on a camera dolly which is placed on rails. They use this method to follow the subject alongside, forward, or backward. It follows the subject which would leave the frame.

Zoom: A ‘Zoom shot’ is the tecnique of changing the focal length of a zoom lens, it gives the illusion of moving further away or getting closer to the action. It can change from a close-up to a wide shot or from a wide shot to a close-up.

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Psychoanalysis:  Psychoanalysis is a theory about human minds and a therapic practice, too. Sigmund Freud was the first to acknowledge this between 1885 and 1939. Since then, psychoanalysts around the world have been developing his philosophy. It can be used in 4 different ways:

1.  As a theory about the behaviour of the mind
2.  As a treatment method for mental problems
3.  As a type of research
4.  A method which distinguishes different social and cultural phenomenons

Suture: ‘Suture’ is the process of editing, editing together the pieces that makes a film. It’s also  a tecnique that makes the audience forget the camera that is actually doing the ‘looking’.

The gaze: ‘Gaze’ means seeing, in other perspective, it is how a person (or a group of people) observes other individuals. There is 4 kind of gazes that we identify:

‘The male gaze’ : Laura Mulvey proposed the second-wave feminist concept of the ‘male gaze’. She said that women were objectified in film due to heterosexual men behind the camera.

 

‘The feminine gaze’ : Judith Butler introduced the idea of the ‘Feminine gaze’. She thought that men choose to perform their masculinity by using women as the ones who pressures men into self-regulation.

‘The imperial gaze’ : E. Ann Kaplan familiarized the concept of the ‘imperial glaze’. Kaplan said about the gaze: ” The imperial gaze reflects the assumption that the white western subject is central much as the male gaze assumes the centrality of the male subject.”

 

‘The oppositional gaze’ : Gloria Jean Watkins wrote an essay in 1992 called ”The oppositional gaze: Black Female Spectatorship”. She introduced the oppositional gaze of Black women.

 

Audience: A group of individuals, who are the ‘listeners’ or ‘spectators’.  The audience is the person who listens to a concert/performance/ speech, or reads a book, or watches a film.

 

Representation: Representation means to demonstrate, illustrate, or expressing something to others.

 

Montage: ‘Montage’ is a film editing technique where a series of short shots are sequenced. It gives a new meaning to the film after it is edited.