Films
The Director of Grand Budapest Hotel
Who is Wes Anderson
A type of shot taken with a fixed camera that pivots horizontally.
What is a pan (shot)?
The name for a color scheme that is restricted to varying shades of the same hue.
What is monochromatic?
The name for composing a photographic composition so there is little space between the edges of the picture and the subject of the picture.
What is tight framing?
The name for shooting or editing two shots so that one completes a movement or process that was begun in the other; for example from a ball being thrown to the ball being caught.
What is cutting on action?
The Director of McFarland, USA
Who is Niki Caro?
A type of shot in which the camera follows along behind the subject, or leads them from the front.
What is a tracking shot?
The type of color scheme of which YELLOW AND PURPLE is an example.
What is complementary?
The name for sound that is OUTSIDE the world of the film -- in the audience's world, not the film's characters' world.
What is extra-diegetic (or non-diegetic)?
The name for an editing transition that skips forward in time, while still staying with the same subject or action.
What is a jump cut?
The Director of Smoke Signals
Who is Chris Eyre?
A type of shot in which the camera slides smoothly alongside a subject usually seen from the side (in profile).
What is a trucking shot?
The name for a color scheme that has four colors.
What is tetradic?
The name for the super-common guideline to line up photographic subjects along gridlines that divides the screen into equal top, middle, and bottom rows and equal left, middle, and right columns.
What is The Rule of Thirds?
The name for an editing transition in which the compositional shapes of the first shot are duplicated in the second shot?
What is a graphic match?
The author of the short story that was made into the movie Smoke Signals.
A type of shot in which the lens magnifies the subject at the same time that the camera itself moves backwards away from the subject.
A post-production process that drains out almost all of the color from a shot, leaving only one color in the image (Sin City is a really good example).
What is selective saturation?
The name for someone who creates sound effects like using celery to make the sound of bones breaking?
What is a Foley artist?
The name of a transition that the audience is not supposed to see, which allows something in the scene to be altered or replaced, or that masks a change in location -- creating an illusion of seamlessness.
What is an invisible cut?
The first major film directed by the same director who directed McFarland USA.
What is Whale Rider?
A type of shot in which the camera does a complete 180 spin around its horizontal axis.
What is a camera roll shot?
The type of color palette you get when you have HIGH BRIGHTNESS and LOW SATURATION
What is pastel?
The term for when something is not literally shot from a character's point of view, but nonetheless sees the world from their perspective.
What is focalization?
What is a J-cut?