Film Language & Techniques
This term refers to background music used to enhance emotion in a scene.
What is a film score?
This term refers to income earned from streaming or playing music publicly.
What are royalties?
This halftime show during a major U.S. sporting event is known for global performances.
What is the Super Bowl Halftime Show?
This term refers to content designed specifically to attract attention and clicks online.
What is clickbait?
This term refers to how different groups of people are portrayed in media.
What is representation?
This shot shows a wide view of a scene, often used to establish location.
What is an establishing shot?
This company is one of the largest global music streaming platforms.
What is Spotify?
This term refers to athletes becoming brands through endorsements and media presence.
What is athlete branding?
This metric measures how many times content is seen online.
What are views (or impressions)?
This term describes unfair or oversimplified portrayals of groups in media.
What are stereotypes?
This editing technique cuts between two scenes happening at the same time.
What is cross-cutting?
This contract type gives a record label rights to produce and sell an artist’s music.
What is a record deal?
This league is the top professional basketball league in the United States.
What is the NBA?
This term refers to users interacting with content through likes, shares, or comments.
What is engagement?
This movement in Hollywood calls for more diversity and inclusion in storytelling.
What is diversity and inclusion (or representation movement)?
This term refers to when a character speaks their thoughts aloud, often alone.
What is a monologue?
This role manages an artist’s career, bookings, and business decisions.
What is a manager?
This term refers to intense rivalries between teams or athletes that attract media attention.
What are sports rivalries?
This strategy uses popular hashtags or topics to increase visibility.
What is trend hijacking (or using trending hashtags)?
This term refers to media shaping what audiences think is important.
What is agenda-setting?
This technique shows events that happened earlier in the story timeline.
What is a flashback?
This term refers to ownership of the original recording of a song.
What are master recordings (masters)?
This concept refers to the commercialization of sports through media rights and sponsorships.
What is sports marketing (or commercialization of sports)?
This concept describes how algorithms prioritize content based on user behavior and preferences.
What is algorithmic curation?
This theory suggests that long-term exposure to media can shape how people see reality.
What is cultivation theory?