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Film Language

Film Language

1996TV Episode⏱️ 29m
Documentary

Illustrates basic terms such as tracking shots and zooms and also provides a primer on editing technique.

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Stars
John Lithgow
Release Date
August 22, 1996
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Strange Episode
by Michael_Elliott2012-03-18

"American Cinema: Film Language (1995) ** (out of 4) The eleventh episode in the American Cinema series takes a completely different approach. Instead of showing us Hollywood and its past, we instead go on a film shoot where we learn what a director's job is. We start off in the audition process and then go to some storyboards and then to the actual filming. I'm sure this subject could make for an interesting documentary but this here isn't it. I must say that it's a rather strange episode because it just doesn't fit into what the entire series was and at the same t..."

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Illustrates basic terms such as tracking shots and zooms and also provides a primer on editing technique.