“The ball is round, a game lasts 90 minutes, everything else is pure theory.”
Run Lola Run
"A significantly repeated element in a film."
Motif
How the plot presents or implies story information.
Narration
The arrangement of everything that appears in the framing – actors, lighting, décor, props, costume
Mise-en-scene
Who is the director of Moonlight?
Barry Jenkins
"I look up, I look down... I look up, I look down..."
Vertigo
Implied and insinuated "message" of the film, inferred intended meaning.
Implicit meaning
Omniscient or "all-knowing" narration - spectator knows more than the characters.
Unrestricted narration
The distance between the foreground and background of a shot which is in sharp focus.
Depth of field
How might you describe the narrative of Moonlight?
3-part structure, coming of age film, etc.
"Cut the deck please. Choose nine cards with your left hand. Three for the past, three for the present, three for the future."
Cleo 5 to 7
Progression moving from beginning through middle to end, plot segmentation
Development
Spectator sees and hears what characters see, hear, think and feel as camera goes "inside" their minds.
Subjective narration
The use of the edges of the film frame to select and to compose what will be visible onscreen.
Framing
Name a motif in Moonlight and provide an example from the film.
“Stop putting yo' head down in my house! You know my rule. It's all love and all pride in this house! Do you feel me?”
Moonlight
Explicit and Implicit Meanings are "symptoms" of social ideology."
Symptomatic meaning
Everything visible and audibly present in the film before us.
Plot
An arrangement of key, fill, and backlighting which serves to model the character while maintaining an even illumination in the shot.
Three point lighting
What are the themes of the film?
"I remember I led a peaceful, uneventful life as a little girl. I loved fries with ketchup, Bruce Lee was my hero, I wore Adidas sneakers and had two obsessions: Shaving my legs one day and being the last prophet of the galaxy."
Percepolis
Name the 5 principles of film form?
1. Function
2. Similarity and Repetition
3. Difference and Variation
4. Development
5. Unity and Disunity
The set of all events in a narrative, both the ones explicitly presented and those the viewer infers
Story
“The process of lighting, framing, and capturing moving images on film stock or a digital medium” LM
Cinematography
What are some examples of types and functions of sound in Moonlight?
1. Vocal sounds
2. Music
3. Environmental sounds
4. Silence