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zmjezhd #185198 06/07/09 05:17 AM
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I've always thought that film and television terms would make interesting AWAD topics. Grips, Dollys, Blondes, Reds, hotheads...the terms are numerous. There are also plot techniques used in editng such as the MacGuffin, the montage, B Roll, a split, and much much more. The Fourth wall is another that pops to mind.

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I don't understand how one of the quotes referring to a "gaffed quarter" relates to either the noun or the verb of the day. "Gaffed" in this case must mean something like "prepared for a trick or hoax," but that's just a guess. It's not quite consistent with the cited meanings of word.

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Originally Posted By: EmmetG
I don't understand how one of the quotes referring to a "gaffed quarter" relates to either the noun or the verb of the day. "Gaffed" in this case must mean something like "prepared for a trick or hoax," but that's just a guess. It's not quite consistent with the cited meanings of word.


one of the [noun] senses is 'gimmick or trick'; you can always verb a noun!
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olly #185212 06/08/09 02:28 AM
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the MacGuffin, the montage, B Roll, a split, and much much more. The Fourth wall Okay, Sweetie, I don't understand a one of these; mind explaining?

Jackie #185227 06/09/09 12:02 AM
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Don't mind at all Jackie,

The MacGuffin
A plot device used to motivate a story. Sometimes in Miss Marple Mysteries there will be a quick cutaway of a necklace or painting. More often than not the shot was added to lead or insinuate something. Or sometimes it's just a red herring. Wanda, in a fish called Wanda was a MacGuffin.
(not to be confused with an egg MacGuffin)

Montage
An editing technique which as the name suggests is a quick series of shots linked together to give more of an allusion to something like time passing or the old 'life flashing before my eyes trick'.

B roll
To dissolve or mix between Two shots before the advent of computers it was necessary to copy one of the Two shots onto another tape or 'B' Roll. Then you cou play both tapes simultaneously and at the appropriate time dissolve between your 'A' and 'B' rolls.

A Split
refers to a split edit where the video from one shot is used under the audio from another shot there are lots of variations of split editing.

The Fourth wall
Is an imaginary wall Whenever you watch a sitcom like That Seventies Show for instance we, the viewer, are in the place of an imaginary wall looking in.

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An editing technique which as the name suggests is a quick series of shots linked together to give more of an allusion to something like time passing or the old 'life flashing before my eyes trick'.

Montage (from the French for 'setup; assembly; editing' < monter 'to mount' < Latin mons, montis, 'mountain') has two meanings in film-making, one from the practical, and American, side and one from the theoretical, and European, one. Slavko Vorkapić (link), mentioned above, was best known for creating Vorkapich sequences, or montage in the American sense of the word. Eisenstein, the Russian director, used the term montage in its French sense of an assemblage of shots into a scene. This sense has continued in anglophone film theory.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.
zmjezhd #185234 06/09/09 10:47 AM
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Thanks for that! Due to my Anglophonism I'd only heard of Sergei, but your french meaning makes more sense to me. Funnily 'setup; assembly; editing' are also editng terms.

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Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
The best boy electric and the best boy grip are assistants to the gaffer and the key grip respectively.


Thank you, I am appreciate. I always read the credits, but never thought of asking before.


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Foley artists are my fave.

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scrunch that box of corn starch!!


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