Genre Conventions
This is the genre where there is a "final girl/person"
What is horror?
When a shot is taken from this angle to show weakness or disempowerment.
What is a low angle shot?
What is a fade transition?
This is the other name for music.
What is score?
This is the definition of "EVERYTHING you see on the screen."
What is mise-en-scene?
Children's films and animated films can fall into this category.
What is the musical genre?
When the camera is physically moving from left to right.
What is a trucking shot?
This editing technique is less common but is used as a stylistic choice.
What is an iris shot?
The type of sound where footsteps, wind, etc. are heard.
What are sound effects?
This type of makeup is used to represent everyday life.
What is naturalistic makeup?
This film genre has been known in the past to involve racist stereotypes, but improved in the 1950's.
What is the Western genre?
When shots go from long shot to a medium shot to a close up.
What is standard shot progression?
The technique used when an editor cuts to the object of the character's attention.
What is a eyeline match?
The type of sound that is heard by the audience, but not the characters in the film.
What is non-diegetic sound?
This is where the name "prop" comes from.
What is property?
This is the type of musical where characters sing and dance in situations of everyday life.
What is a straight musical?
This form of the pan movement is used to build anticipation.
What is a slow pan?
The technique used to shock or jolt the audience and is also known for comedic effect.
What is a smash cut?
This type of sound frequency is used to sound ominous.
What is low pitch?
This type of light is used to eliminate shadows.
What is a fill light?
This genre is known to be set in a small town and sometimes has conflict between characters that need to put their differences aside and work together.
What is the Sports film genre?
The type of zoom that is used for dramatic or comedic effects.
What is the crash zoom?
The editing technique that "Changes either the image or sound before the other."
What is a split edit?
This can also been known as ambient noise.
What is soundscape?
This is a type of performance that reveals the character traits of the character by showing facial expression, body language, and tone/voice.
What is individualized acting?