The Emergence Machine

Shot

physical · Cinema · Level 13 · E8

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

Trace. Question. Emerge.

Emergence definition

shot emerges from camera + time.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “shot” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “shot”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
shot
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL13L12L11L10L2L1L0ShotCinemaFilmImage… intermediate l…FormLifeStructureActionMotionChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

used byprerequisitesJump CutL14Match CutL14MontageL14Pull FocusL14Rack FocusL14ShotL13ActionL1MotionL1CinemaL12E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Action L1 (requires)
    Action is necessary to capture a sequence of frames.
  • Motion L1 (requires)
    shot requires understanding motion as a foundational concept
  • Cinema L12 (requires)
    This is a cinema-related concept; understanding cinema comes first

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