Film analysis
For the purpose of our class, there are this many levels of analysis
What is three levels?
Instrumental music in a film is called this.
What is the score?
This type of shot is used to establish the setting or scene.
What is an establish shot or extreme long shot?
Children and teenagers under 17 can not watch this type of movie unless they are with a parent or guardian.
What is an R-rated movie?
These are the different stages of film making.
What are Pre-Production, Production, and Post-Production?
Level 1 analysis involves examining these elements.
What are literary elements?
What is in the shot and where is it placed is called this.
What is composition?
Soft focus is often used as a visual cue to depict these sequences.
What is dream, flashback or memories?
This is a short promotional advertisement for an upcoming feature film, often showed before a movie begins.
What is a movie trailer?
What is Front Lighting?
Plot, characters, setting, and themes are all examples of this type of analysis.
What is Level 1 analysis?
How characters interact with props, choreography and locations on a stage.
What is blocking?
The most common shot, and the most comfortable for film watchers, is called this.
Anybody of any age can buy a ticket to a PG-13 movie.
What is true?
Characters shot from this angle can look weaker and less in control; sometimes trapped or powerless.
What is a high angle?
This type of analysis answers the question of how a specific film came together.
What is Level 2 analysis?
This word's translation from French means "placement on stage."
What is Mise En Scene?
This shot is often unsettling, and viewers aren't able to discern what they are looking at.
What is an Extreme Close Up?
This person is the creative lead of a movie who shapes the script into a visual story and guides the actors and crew.
Who is the director?
These are two techniques for moving the camera: One is up-and-down, the other is left-to-right.
What is tilt and pan?
Level 3 analysis of a film attempts to answer this question by looking at all the elements of Levels 1 and 2.
Why was this film (or text) created?
Elements of a film that are unique to the medium and require a special vocabulary to discuss is this type of analysis.
What is cinematic analysis?
What is Rack Focus?
Officially called the Academy Awards, this annual presentation to honor excellence in cinematic achievement is called this, informally.
What is the Oscars?
Music, sound effects, Foley art, and voiceovers are added post-production and are called this.