Clips useful for Introduction to Film

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Editing

Intercutting

Screen direction

Cut-ins

Close-ups

Shot/reverse shot

Jump cut

• Brick: 1:19

Graphic match

• Brick: arch symbol on note and sewer tunnel -- 0:23
• Brick: Brendan earlier and later -- 0:29
• Heros s1e2: Hiro in Japan and New York -- 0:07
• The Killer

Dissolve

Wipe

Fade in / out

Eyeline match

Overlapping editing

Axial cut

• Heros s1e7: three cuts into doorknob -- 0:26

Long take:

• Kill Bill v. 1: the Bride in O-ren's house -- 1:11

Cinematography

Low-angle shot

• Brick: scene in VP's office -- 0:38

High-angle shot

• Kill Bill  v.1: opening fight with Copperhead -- 0:10
• Kill Bill v. 1: the Bride in O-ren's house -- 1:11

Subjective POV

• Brick: no glasses to glasses -- 0:44
• The Killer

Retrograde zoom

Mise-en-Scene

Sound

Subjective audio

• In the Company of Men: last scene, deaf woman can't hear him screaming

Other

Continuity errors

• Brick: two students in background walk the same way twice between shots -- 0:31

Authorial commentary

• Fargo: XLS, Jerry walks to car isolated in snow  -- 0:22