freeze frame
/fɹˈiːz fɹˈeɪm/
nouna cinematic technique where a single frame is repeated and played back, creating the illusion of a still image
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1. A really cool useful effect that you can use in your videos very easily is called Freeze Frame.
2. Then choose Modify at Freeze Frame.
3. Now you can adjust the Freeze Frame by clicking on these little circles here at the top and you can make it a shorter period of time or longer period of time as well.
4. Now to add the freeze frame I go to Modify, Add Freeze Frame.
Ken Burns effect
/kˈɛn bˈɜːnz ɪfˈɛkt/
nouna technique used in video production where still photographs are panned and zoomed in a way to create a video effect
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1. A lot of slideshows will use the Ken Burns Effect to kind of slowly zoom in or move away from the center of the photo or something.
Mickey Mousing
/mˈɪki mˈaʊsɪŋ/
nouna film scoring technique where the music closely follows the on-screen action, emphasizing or mimicking the movements of the characters or objects
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1. Written by composer Max Steiner, this score utilized techniques that would go on to be used in horror films for decades, such as Mickey Mousing, in which music matches a character's action and leitmotifs which are short recurring musical ideas that typically signify the presence of a monster or a villain.
offscreen
/ˈɔfskɹiːn/
nounsomething that is not visible on the screen but exists within the story, such as sounds, dialogue, or actions happening off-camera
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1. The offscreen reality was always more complex.
2. Offscreen: You hummed it earlier.
3. Offscreen voice: Break cut?
4. Evidence is for offscreen deaths.
5. Their special relationship holds up offscreen, too.
redress
/ˈɹidɹɛs/, /ɹɪˈdɹɛs/
nounthe process of changing the set or scenery to represent a different location or time period within the same production, often used to create the illusion of multiple locations without the need for multiple sets
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1. There should be some redress.
2. What's the redress?
3. Feeling themselves unjustly treated they earnestly sought redress.
4. Next we heard the expression 'redress the balance'.
5. It would not have redressed the injury.
closeup
/ˈkɫoʊˈsəp/
nouna detailed and tightly framed photograph or film shot of a subject at close range
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1. Getting a good closeup on that?
2. Going in for the closeups.
3. It takes closeup images really well and really sharply.
4. Look at them closeup.
5. Can you get a closeup?
cross-cutting
/kɹˈɔskˈʌɾɪŋ/
nouna film editing technique that alternates between different scenes or storylines to create tension or show simultaneous events
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1. And it's facilitated compromise when there's these sources of outside constraints, as well as cross-cutting cleavages.
2. It has, I would say, at least two cross-cutting themes.
3. We also see a set of questions that cut across all areas of labor law reform and present opportunities for cross-cutting solutions.
4. These are all cross-cutting aspects of our community mission that really give us tremendous opportunities to bring these powerful individuals together.
5. And it comes over to us, comes across to the reader, once again, through the technique of cross-cutting.
cutaway
/ˈkətəweɪ/
nouna shot that interrupts the main action to show something else, such as an object or a reaction shot
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1. I can select this cutaway.
2. That is going to create a cutaway.
3. Cutaways are when you have one video.
4. You can only have one cutaway at a time.
5. Instead of cutaway, which will fill the entire screen,
dissolve
/dɪˈzɑɫv/
nouna film editing transition where one shot gradually fades out while another shot gradually fades in, creating a smooth transition between the two shots
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1. Dissolve the guilt and the shame.
2. Our stomach acid dissolves the flea but not the larvae, the parasite.
3. On this view, again, a solution to the meta-problem dissolves the hard problem.
4. Consciousness dissolves subconscious walls.
5. Dissolve the yeast in the warm water.
insert
/ˈɪnˌsɝt/, /ˌɪnˈsɝt/
nouna close-up shot of an object or detail, often used to emphasize or highlight a specific aspect of a scene or to provide additional information to the audience
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1. SD card inserted.
2. Insert your own joke.
3. Insert a new cartridge.
4. Just insert the entire bottle.
5. Insert the other end of the pole into the pocket on the opposite corner of the tent.
J-cut
/dʒˈeɪkˈʌt/
nouna transition where the audio from the next shot begins before the video from the previous shot ends, creating a smooth and seamless transition between scenes
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1. Today I'm going to show you how to do two audio cuts called the L-cut and the J-cut.
2. Now the opposite of an L-cut is a J-cut because the letter goes in the opposite direction.
3. So this is the J-cut.
4. So that's how you do the L-cut and the J-cut using just iMovie.
L-cut
/ˈɛlkˈʌt/
nouna type of video or audio edit where the audio from the previous scene continues to play over the footage of the next scene
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1. First let's start with an L-cut.
2. Let's take a look at using an L-cut to make this better.
3. This is called an L-cut because of its shape.
4. Now the opposite of an L-cut is a J-cut because the letter goes in the opposite direction.
5. So that's how you do the L-cut and the J-cut using just iMovie.
wipe
/ˈwaɪp/
nouna transition between two shots where one shot is gradually replaced by another shot in a directional pattern
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1. Each bounce would wipe away any record of the universe’s previous history.
2. The Darkseeker alpha wipes his own blood onto the glass in the shape of a butterfly.
3. Wipe the water.
4. Wipe away any excess glue with a paper towel.
5. Wipe my tears!
flashback
/ˈfɫæʃˌbæk/
nouna scene in a story line that interrupts the chronological order and takes the narrative back in time
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1. Not everybody has flashbacks.
2. I got flashbacks.
3. Flashbacks to a point where I can smell the carbon.
4. And my father essentially had a flashback.
5. Run the flashback.
matte
/ˈmæt/
nouna technique or material used in film and photography to block or obscure parts of an image or scene, often for special effects work or to combine separate elements into a single shot
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1. I like the matte.
2. I personally love matte lipstick.
3. Part of this is the matte finish on everything.
4. - Matte, way to work.
5. Your squash should have a matte skin.
split-screen
/splˈɪtskɹˈiːn/
nouna film technique in which two or more separate scenes are shown on the screen at the same time, often divided by a horizontal or vertical line
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1. You can disable the split-screen function permanently by going to settings.
2. Launching two apps in split-screen from a single button?
3. [Rooster Teeth Intro Music] Burnie: Before the advent of online multiplayer, most shooters were played on a single T.V. with a split-screen straight across the middle.
4. And then in split-screen mode, I'd be using the magic keyboard
5. In other Xbox news, if you bought Gears of War 3, do not play Horde Mode in Split-screen.
