YALE FILM STUDIES:
Basic Terms-
Auteur= French for “author”. Used by critics writing for Cahiers du cinema and other journals to indicate the figure, usually the director, who stamped a film with his/her own “personality”.
Diegesis =The diegesis includes objects, events, spaces and the characters that inhabit them, including things, actions, and attitudes not explicitly presented in the film but inferred by the audience.
Focus- refers to the degree to which light rays coming from any particular part of an object pass through the lens and reconverge at the same point on a frame of the film negative, creating sharp outlines and distinct textures that match the original object.
Genres= Types of film recognized by audiences and/or producers, sometimes retrospectively.
Mise en scene= All the things that are “put in the scene”: the setting, the decor, the lighting, the costumes, the performance etc
Story/Plot= audience infers about the events that occur in the diegesis on the basis of what they are shown by the plot — the events that are directly presented in the film.
Scene= A scene is a segment of a narrative film that usually takes place in a single time and place, often with the same characters.
Shot= A single stream of images, uninterrupted by editing.
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