Category Archives: Blog #2. Fleshing out film jargon

Bernard Dick defines a subjective shot as representing “what the character sees” (56). This means that the camera stimulates what the character is seeing so that the audience sees it as well. In one scene in The Graduate (1967), Benjamin … Continue reading →

For my second blog of the class, I have chosen to pick three certain concepts to explain to everyone: subjective camera, American montage, and parallel cut. As you can guess from my title, the clips are very girly because I … Continue reading →

Long Take: In the text, Bernard Dick describes a long take as a “shot that lasts longer than a minute” (p.95). It is a generally simple concept. I would explain it by saying that this type of shot is continuous, … Continue reading →

Trailers are meant to capture the audience’s attention and are created to make the audience want to see that movie. Bernard Dick explains the different techniques used by films in order to better interact the audience with certain techniques of … Continue reading →

Rack Focus Dick explains the key term in the film industry, rack focus, as a way to pull the focus of the shot from the background to the foreground (93). The switching of the camera’s focus can act to either hide … Continue reading →