Verisimilitude - Justin Pipkins
Verisimilitude is the appearance of truth. In the case of film, verisimilitude is something that is essential in all movies. Motion pictures must set out to give the appearance of reality. The viewer must buy in to the action taking place on screen. This form of realism is found most evident in classical Hollywood cinema. D.W. Griffith revolutionized how the audience accepted a film by playing with camera angles. He would shoot part of a scene from one angle, then another part of the same scene from another angle. After cutting the two together, people believed that both angles were occurring at the same time.
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Wipe - Kathleen Franks
A wipe is a transitional device that is used to indicate a change in setting or time. A wipe is used by having Shot 2 slide—horizontally, vertically, from the left, from the right, or in other shapes and directions—across Shot 1.
A wipe can have a blurred line (soft edge wipe) between two shots, a sharp line (hard edge wipe), or a jagged line, which often suggests a rougher transition. Although these three are the primary wipes filmmakers use, wipes can be in many different shapes (like a heart or a star). Wipes were often used as a transitional device in the early years of filmmaking (Laurel and Hardy’s Thicker than Water (1935)), but it is still used a little even today. Looney Tunes (1930) uses wipes (an iris wipe) to indicate the ending of the show by a shrinking circle that leave the audience with a black screen. A wipe is used in Star Wars (1977) to show a location change from Luke meeting Ben Kenobi to Darth Vader’s station. |