Name That Director + Country!
Film Form
Narrative Form
Depth of Field/Perspective Relations
Lighting
100
VERTIGO (1958)
Alfred Hitchcock, USA
100
A significantly repeated element in a film.
SIMILARITY & REPETITION - MOTIF (+100 BONUS: example?)
100
When an element is not part of the world of the film's story.
NON-DIEGETIC (+100 BONUS: example?)
100
Planes of action: foreground, middle-ground, background create the illusion of this...
DEEP SPACE
100
The main light in a lighting setup that is the brightest and casts the strongest shadows.
KEY LIGHT
200
RUN LOLA RUN (1998)
Tom Tykwer, Germany
200
Significant changes from what is expected or established.
DIFFERENCE & VARIATION (+100 BONUS: example?)
200
How the plot presents or implies story information, can create effects such as suspense or surprise in viewers.
NARRATION
200
A shallow focus shot in which the area of sharp focus shifts from one plane to another.
RACK FOCUS
200
The difference between the brightest and the darkest areas within the frame.
CONTRAST
300
CLÉO DE 5 À 7 (1962)
Agnès Varda, France
300
The concrete significance and "point" of the film, openly asserted (often spoken at the beginning or end).
EXPLICIT MEANING (+100 BONUS: example?)
300
All of the events that are directly presented to us in the film.
PLOT
300
When both the foreground plane and the background plane are in sharp focus.
DEEP FOCUS
300
Soft lighting, low contrast, diffused illumination
HIGH-KEY LIGHTING
400
A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT (2014)
Ana Lily Amirpour, USA
400
How relationships in a film are interwoven and how communicative and cohesive it is (or isn't!)
UNITY and DISUNITY? (+100 BONUS: example?)
400
When the spectator knows more story information than the character(s).
UNRESTRICTED NARRATION
400
A lens with a long focal length that flattens depth, compressing background and foreground.
TELEPHOTO LENS
400
Hard lighting, high contrast (chiaroscuro effect)
LOW-KEY LIGHTING
500
PERSEPOLIS (2007)
Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, France/Iran
500
Describing a film's meaning by explaining a particular set of social values and social ideology that make up the point of the film.
SYMPTOMATIC MEANING (BONUS: example?)
500
The viewer's imaginary construction of all the events in the narrative - both the ones explicitly presented and the ones the viewer infers.
STORY
500
The range of distances from the lens in which objects filmed will be in focus.
DEPTH OF FIELD
500
3-point lighting is made up of these three lights...
Key Light + Fill Light + Back Light
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