Shot Types
This term describes a shot in which a single item or character's face fills most of the frame. For a young actor, having one of these shots in a film signifies career success.
What is a "close-up"?
This film, released in 1927, is significant to film history because it had the first audible dialogue between two characters.
What is The Jazz Singer?
This silent film, directed by Georges Melies, was the first science fiction film ever made.
What is A Trip to the Moon?
French for "deadly woman," this archetypical character describes a woman who uses her charm and beauty to lead the protagonist into danger.
What is a "femme fatale"?
This filmmaking term describes a situation in which the audience knows more about the story than the characters on screen.
What is "superior positioning"?
This tilted shot conveys confusion.
What is a "Dutch-angle shot"?
This term describes a piece of narration in a film which is NOT accompanied with an image of the speaker.
What is a "voiceover"?
This special effect, invented in a happy accident by Georges Méliès, involves stopping the recording and changing something in the frame before beginning again. It looks like magic and is still used to this day!
What is a "cut-splice"?
This type of protagonist lacks conventional heroic qualities and has become increasingly popular in modern films.
What is an "anti-hero"?
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What is a "McGuffin"?
This French term describes everything the audience can see in a frame: composition, camera movement, lighting, costumes, and set design.
What is "mise-en-scene"?
This specific term describes sound that cannot be heard by the characters within a scene. It is intended for the audience only.
What is "non-diagetic sound"?
The Great Train Robbery, the world's first western genre film, was released in this year.
What is 1903?
The classic film noir, The Third Man, is set in post-war Vienna, divided into sections controlled by these 4 world powers.
What are America, England, France and the Soviet Union?
This theory, named by Alfred Hitchcock, describes suspense created when the audience knows something dangerous is about to happen.
What is "Bomb Theory"?
This term originally described combining shots to create meaning. Over time, it has shifted to mean a specific series of shots that compress time and space to communicate a single idea to the audience.
What is a "montage"?
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What is the Wilhelm scream?
Early silent films often used this 'flat' visual style, still frequently used by director Wes Anderson. It describes the edges of a traditional theatre stage.
What is "proscenium framing"?
This lighting style creates strong contrast between the light and dark areas of a shot, with deep shadows and little fill light.
What is "low-key lighting"?
This editing technique, first introduced in early silent films, describes movement between two independent events happening simultaneously. It is a critical editing technique to build tension.
What is "cross-cutting"?
This specific vocabulary term describes a series of scenes which work together to create a narrative unit in a film.
What is a "sequence"?
This type of sound effects is created by special artists to add environmental sounds to a scene. It is often done using creative and unusual props.
What is "Foley Sound"?
This photographer was hired by a horse enthusiast to settle a bet on whether all four of a horse's hoofs left the ground when it ran. The resulting series of photos laid the groundwork for all future cinema.
Who is Eadweard Muybridge?
These regulations, established in 1930 by the movie industry, agreed on specific activities and themes that could not be shown on screen.
What is the "Hays' Code"?
Known as the "Master of Suspense," Alfred Hitchcock made a large number of films such as ____ and ____ which established common trends in the genre.
What are: The Birds, Pyscho, Vertigo, Rear Window, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much... more?