Mood, Plot, Story
What is story?
The emotional or psychological reasons behind a character's choices.
What is internal motivation?
The type of shot used to establish the setting of a scene and show the movement of a subject within their surroundings.
What is a wide shot/long shot?
The part of the process where raw footage is edited to create a final product.
What is post production?
Director Richard Linklater filmed this coming of age drama with the same actors over 12 real years to watch them naturally age on screen.
____ refers to the overall emotional atmosphere or feeling that a film/scene creates for the audience
What is mood?
Examples of external motivation.
What is anything that's an event, relationship, or obstacle?
This shot is used to show a character's emotion or reaction (smiling, crying, reacting to news).
What is a close up shot?
The stage in which you form the shot lists, prop/costume list, scout locations, and create the production schedule.
What is pre production?
This famous director has a home in the Beaches of Toronto and has a ceremonial key to the city.
What is chosen to be shown and how its shown. How the events are arranged and revealed to us.
What is plot?
A character's actions driven by a deep seated fear of being alone can be described as this type of motivation.
What is internal motivation?
The purpose of this shot is to convey instability, tension, or disorientation.
What is a dutch angle shot?
The 3 main parts of the ideas stage.
What is brainstorming, planning, screenwriting?
This film has the highest grossing opening weekend at the box office of all time.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)
_____ describes what the viewer is meant to feel while watching.
The central conflict born from the two main characters motivations in the short film "Bao"
What is the desire to protect and keep the dumpling close clashes with the dumpling's desire for independence?
According to rule of thirds, this is where a filmmaker should place a subject to create a more dynamic and balanced shot.
What is along the 2 horizontal or 2 vertical lines and/or where they cross? (aka "power points")
One of the elements of a storyboard.
What is panels, images, and titles and captions?
Who is Rob Reiner?
Two choices that filmmakers can make to shape the plot.
What is foreshadowing, withholding information, point of view changes, or flashbacks/non-linear storytelling.
2 techniques a filmmaker can use to show a character's motivation without using any dialogue.
What is music, facial expressions, flashbacks, physical actions, shot composition? (main answers)
(also accept creating obvious conflicts, physical actions, and color grading, inaction, weather/setting, motifs/symbols, foreshadowing, clothing)
The purpose of this rule is to maintain consistent visual left/right spatial relationships between characters.
What is the 180 degree rule?
The first non-english film to win best picture at the Oscars.