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This is why we can't speak about a movie's "truth", "reality", or "authenticity".
What is no depiction in a movie is objective or neutral?
One type of sign has a direct meaning, such as a ringing bell indicating the end of class.
Indexical signs
A dramatic cut in the flow of events, which breaks the time/space continuum, yet it still feels natural.
What is a jump-cut?
A type of sound played in the background of a film such as birds chirping, traffic, or machinery
What is diegetic sound?
Genres sort these to help people know what to expect.
Stories
Audience members create meaning for movies using this method.
Decoding
A code commonly used in trailers to spark interest.
Enigma code
A shot used to set the scene or the mood, or place the spectator in the scene.
What is an establishing shot?
A musical piece that quickly guides the film into a different mood or setting
What is a score?
They often have trends that influence what producers make.
Genres
A popular term for movies during the 1920’s and 30’s regarding how they “revealed” social and political truths
What is a “Truth Machine”?
Everything that the director puts in the scene such as make-up, costumes, background, etc.
What is a Mise-en-Scene?
A shot that places the spectator up close to the subject or zooms in on a place/ person/ or thing.
What is a close-up?
A harsh and bright lighting that can uplift the film’s mood and intensify the scene
What is High-Key lighting
An appearance of reality, or convention.
What is Verisimilitude?
It is study of signs, codes, and conventions in movies
Semiotics
A way to compress time and space into one coherent, natural-looking sequence of shots.
What is editing?
A type of camera use that influences the audience to feel like they are part of the film through visual effects.
What is Camera movement?
Stories commonly follow this format split in three.
A beginning, middle, and end
These can be signifiers of meaning in movies
They can be signifiers of meaningHow can stars be part of Iconography?
These are the smallest units of meaning in semiotic analysis
Signs
What are some editing techniques? Name two.
Continuity editing, jump-cut, cross-cut, follow-cut, fades and dissolves, and sound-bridge.
A type of lighting used to attract attention to one individual or object within a film
What is spotlight?
Stories often end with these being overcome.
Problems/issues
An aspect of genre and mise-en-scene.
What is Iconography?