Motion conveyed by the cut. The cut is fundamental to motion in film. It carries with it a sensation of motion and can give a film rhythm, lyricism, suspense, or shock, solely from the editing. The same footage poorly edited could be dull, boring, or lifeless. Some of the finest editing makes use of elaborate and elegant relationships of all three kinds of motion.
Shadows become bright areas and well lit areas become shadows.
If a negative is rephotographed with another negative film, the result is a positive, which restores normalcy to the picture. A term used imprecisely in film. The content of a film written in detail and separated into numbered sequences by the screenwriter. A screenplay may be original or adapted from a novel, play, or short story. The basic division of a film.