This is a force in the screen that leads your eye.
What is a vector?
100
This type of volume has clearly defined mass, and is something that your eye can rest on.
What is positive volume?
100
The graphic depth factor in which the objects rise in the frame the further back they go.
What is height in plane?
100
A series of drawn visualizations.
What is a storyboard?
100
Robin Williams inspired boarding school students with literature from the deceased.
What is Dead Poet's Society?
200
Proper space between the top of the head and the edge of the frame.
What is headroom?
200
This type of volume has no substance, and is defined by positive volume.
What is negative volume?
200
This detracts from depth, as letters are superimposed over the image.
What is graphication?
200
The way of visualizing that includes the least manipulation by the camera and director.
What is "looking at"?
200
Jeff Spicoli defined an era of the surfer-slacker type by frustrating his teacher in this 80's comedy.
What is Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
300
Proper space between a motion vector and the edge of the frame.
What is leadroom?
300
The interplay of positive and negative volume.
What is volume duality?
300
In linear perspective, the imaginary point where all lines seem to converge.
What is the vanishing point?
300
The point of view in which the camera takes on the perspective of a character.
What is a subjective angle?
300
Lindsey Lohan joins the ranks of the "Plastics" in this Tina Fey-penned comedy.
What is Mean Girls?
400
The intersections where the vertical and horizontal "rule of thirds" connect.
What is the golden section?
400
This type of angle includes a large depth of field and is great for either making small spaces seem bigger, or to properly photograph landscapes and large scenery.
What is a wide angle?
400
In this depth factor, objects larger in the screen appear closer to the camera.
What is relative size?
400
This kind of angle includes a horizon line that is obviously tilted.
What is a canted, or "dutch" angle?
400
Michelle Pfeiffer inspires an inner city literature class by using Bob Dylan lyrics to connect to her students. But we remember it mostly for the song "Gangsta's Paradise."
What is Dangerous Minds?
500
When the frame gives incorrect visual information - for example, a tree that appears to grow out of someone's head.
What is illogical closure?
500
The most extreme example of a wide angle lens.
What is a fish eye?
500
This occurs when objects closer to the camera are more distinct than objects in the distance.
What is aerial perspective?
500
The film rule in which the camera must stay on one side of the action on the screen.
What is "The 180-degree rule" or "crossing the line"?
500
This film introduced the terms "Baldwins," "monets," and "as if" as it captured high school life in the mid-90s.