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Content = Subject Form = means by which the subject is expressed

Décor

–noun 1. style or mode of decoration, as of a room,

building, or the like: modern office décor; a bedroom having a spanish décor.

2. decoration in general; ornamentation: beads, baubles, and other décor.

3. Theater , scenic decoration; scenery.

Dolly shot

a camera shot taken from a moving dolly, a wheeled support on which a camera may be mounted;

Also called track shot, tracking shot, trucking shot.

A camera dolly is a specialized piece of film equipment designed to create smooth camera movements.

Film Form

1. Lighting 2. Camera angle 3. Focal length 4. Editing 5. Moving camera 6. Proxemics: the study of spatial

interrelationships/arrangements; 7. Mise-en-scène: also known as staging. The overall look

and feel of a movie—the sum of everything the audience sees, hears, and experiences while viewing it.

8. Sound

Pro’xemicsthe study of set measurable distances

between people as they interact.

Collage

A collage (From the French: coller, to glue) is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.

Kurt Schwitters, Das Undbild, 1919, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Photomontage is the process (and result) of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs. The composite picture was sometimes photographed so that the final image is converted back into a seamless photographic print. The same method is accomplished today using image-editing software. The technique is referred to by professionals as compositing.

Photomontage