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Design
The process by which the look of the settings, props, lighting, and actors is determined
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Setting
The environment in which the narrative takes place.
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Composition
The organization, distribution, balance, and general relationship of the actors and objects within the space of each shot.
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Frame
The border between what the filmmakerwants us to see and everything else
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Framing
What we see on the screen
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Kenisis
What moves on the screen
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Figures
Any significant things that move on the screen--people, animals objects
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On-Screen Space
Cinematic space that exists inside the frame.
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Off-Screen Space
Space outside the frame
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The Open Frame
A frame around a motion-picture image that, theoretically, characters and objects can enter and leave.
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The closed frame
An approach to framing a shot that implies that neither characters nor objects may enter or leave the frame--rendering them hemmed in and constrained
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