Category Archives: american montage

Lights, Camera, ACTION!

Posted on February 6, 2013 by acampion

Rack Focus Bernard Dick says directors use rack focus to conceal a character’s identity before a big reveal. Imagine a scene where the villain is walking towards his victim. A director might first have the victim in the foreground as … Continue reading →

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Bringing a Film to life

Posted on February 6, 2013 by arizbeth474

Subjective Shot A subjective shot, also known as point of view shot, is a filming method that allows the audience to view a perspective that would normally be only visible through the character in a film or as Dick would … Continue reading →

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Innocent Sunflower Girl and Daniel LaRusso

Posted on February 6, 2013 by gbust

Rack focus Dick describes rack focus to be when the background is “a blur and the foreground sharp; then the background will be sharp and the foreground blurry” (pg. 93). The purpose of this technique is to conceal someone’s or … Continue reading →

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Manipulating Cameras and Its Meanings

Posted on February 4, 2013 by plin2013

Subjective camera  A subjective shot, according to Dick “represents what the character see (p.56). This is sometimes referred to as the subjective camera. The camera is capturing scenes as if they’re our own eyes, to portray a situation of a … Continue reading →

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Blog #2. Fleshing out film jargon with examples

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Althea Delwiche

On Monday (2/4) and Wednesday (2/6), we are reading excerpts from Bernard Dick’s classic textbook The Anatomy of Film. Many of Dick’s examples reference movies that are unfamiliar to contemporary audiences. Your next blog assignment asks you to track down YouTube … Continue reading →

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