Film frame

As a single image (also: field, Eng frame, in the technical sense motion picture. ) Refers to a single image from a movie clip. It represents the elementary unit of the film medium, analogous to the letters in the font. The frame in the static photograph is called a still image.

Single images form on the film strip of a television or movie a chronological sequence, which can be understood only useful in this temporal chronology; an inversion or reversal of this order represents an alienation effect represents a example of this is the backward projection; in this so-called time-reversal trick of the film is shown in reverse; example arises in so Lumières Short Charcuterie mécanique (1895 ) from a meat sausage a first chopped and then live pig at the slaughterhouse. Frames of movies of amateur photographers may, but need - as opposed to serial photography or cinema - have no cohesion.

Another time axis manipulation is the fast motion, in which the time intervals between the filmic single frames from the usual 18 to 24 frames per second are stretched to seconds, minutes or hours; in projection of the individual sequence goes like the sun in a few moments below or the bloom of a flower opens within few seconds. The opposite effect of slowing movement by incorporating with more than 24 frames per second, called slow motion.

A special case in the movie is the enlarge a still image from the film strip; it can be every single cinematic image can be photographically enlarged or imprinted. The promotional stills, which are made for movies, but always arise by still image photographer and do not always coincide with the image that is included on the film strip of the movie. In the publications of scientific cinémathèques has frequently found includes prints of individual images of a motion picture film.

Another special case of the dissolved out from a movie clip frame set is digitally compressed movie files; Compression methods such as MPEG do not store all the frames correctly, but only the difference in a defined sequence; here it is only possible to a limited gain direct access to a specific frame.

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