Long Shot
-:- Orientational Shot.
Medium Shot
-:- Information
Close Up Shot
-:- Important detail
Basic Shot Progression
-:- General to specific. Mirrors how we look at something in real life. Shows where
in the world you are. Long shot to medium shot to close up .
Denotative meanings ...
✓ -:- Making cinema part of revolution. Filmmaker, theorist.
One Eisenstein influence: Japanese calligraphy- series of pictographs, would add one to the
other to create words. How they developed their vocabulary.
e.g. bird+mouth=sing
Relational editing
✓ -:- Common elements from shot to shot
Common color, light, direction
Works well with continuity editing
French New Wave
✓ -:- Young filmmakers reaction against commercial studio system
Jump Cuts
✓ -:- Abrupt transition between shots
Disorienting of continuity of space and time
Hollywood's Three Act Structure
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