Classical Hollywood style

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Created on: 24-11-22 13:18

Origins of classical Hollywood

early 20th century hollywood film makers developed a particular style of shooting and editing to make a film narritive easier to understand, this then became known as classical Hollywood style/continuity style

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Puropse of the continuity style

the continuity style was developed as a way to present a story in a logical, forward and linear progession. it encourages the audiance to become enthralled and captivated by a story but discourages the audiance from consiously noticing the editing and ca

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Techniques

eye line match
match on action
cross-cutting
shot reverse shot
point of veiw shot
180 degree rule
establishing shots

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Eye line match

to keep the eye line matched from one shot to another maintaining the direction that someone is gazing

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Match on action

cutting from on shot of an action to another veiw of the same action

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Coss-cutting

an action that is occuring at the same time but in a different location and is edited together

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Shot reverse shot

a serise of over the shoulder shots used to alternate from one character to another mostly used in dialouge scenes

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Point of veiw shot

used to directly represent the veiwpoint of that character

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The 180 degree rule

key convention of the classical hollywood stylee that allowd the filmaker to ensure spatial continuity from shot to shot

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Use of establishing shots

Hollywood filmakers developed a logical order of shot construction . this would begin with an establishing shotrevealing the location of the action and then would cut to a closer veiw of the space and the characters inhibiting it.

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Puropse of the continuity style

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eye line match
match on action
cross-cutting
shot reverse shot
point of veiw shot
180 degree rule
establishing shots

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to keep the eye line matched from one shot to another maintaining the direction that someone is gazing

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cutting from on shot of an action to another veiw of the same action

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