Recurring themes, settings, presentation, character types, and story formulas that define a genre are called this
What are conventions
100
The last part of the five-part narrative structure of a story
What is the resolution or denouement
100
This refers to the process by which the look of settings is determined
What is the design
100
In this shot type, the camera is very far from the character, who appears very small in the context of the setting.
What is the extreme long shot
100
The first film in film history (1895), directed by the Lumiere Brothers was called
What is Exiting the Factory, or Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory
200
In 1940s, the outlook, tone, and style of American genre films grew decidedly darker with the emergence of this genre
What is film noir
200
The total world of the story--the events, characters, objects, settings, and sounds that form the world in which the story occurs is called the . . .
What is diegesis
200
Musicals tend to employ this type of composition
What is a balanced composition
200
This angle of shot typically implies the observer's sense of superiority to the subject being photographed
What is the high angle shot
200
This horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick was one of the first to employ the steadicam in a scene following a little boy around a creepy hotel
What is The Shining
300
This genre was born out of a cultural need to confront and vicariously conquer something frightening that we do not fully comprehend
What is horror
300
A narrative providing a history or background context, especially for a character or situation in a literary work or film
What is a backstory
300
Films influenced by this artistic movement were characterized by extreme stylisation, abstraction, and distortion in their sets, decor, acting, lighting and camera movements.
What is Expressionism
300
This composition rule in cinema takes the form of a grid pattern that divides the image into horizontal thirds representing the foreground, middle ground, and background
What is the rule of thirds
300
This film is about an English professor of poetry who is diagnosed with terminal cancer
What is Wit
400
This subgenre of the crime film focuses on planning, execution, and aftermath of a theft.
What is the heist film
400
Unlike the story, which necessarily flows chronologically, this can be manipulated so that events are presented in non chronological sequences that emphasise importance or meaning
What is plot order
400
Objects such as paintings, vases, flowers, silver tea sets, guns, fishing rods, etc. that help us understand the characters by showing us their preferences in such things
What are properties (props)
400
The whole set and all the characters are taken in by this type of shot
what is a master shot
400
This film from 2000, directed by Christopher Nolan, alternates black-and-white sequences--which move forward in chronological order in telling the story--with color sequences that move backward in an order that confuses chronology
What is Memento
500
This the process by which a particular genre is adapted to meet the expectations of a changing society
What is generic transformation
500
The central figure of a story, who is often referred to as the hero; story is normally about this person, whose actions are essential to the action and plot
What is the protagonist
500
This type of film framing is designed to imply that other forces, such as fate, social, educational, or economic background, or a repressive government have robbed characters of their ability to move and act freely.
What is the closed frame
500
This type of shot might be used to suggest a character's mental instability or disturbance
What is a dutch angle shot
500
This film directed by Diablo Cody features a waiting-room scene about a young woman making an unexpected decision to not have an abortion