Types of Film
Indiana Jones, Fast and Furious, and Jurassic Park belong to this genre.
What is an action film?
The director uses this to let the viewer see through the eyes of a character.
What is a point-of-view shot?
A white dove symbolises this concept.
What is peace?
Using this technique the viewer can hear a voice without seeing the character it belongs to.
What is a voice-over?
The major topics being discussed in a film.
What is a theme?
This type of genre shows the audience a possible future with advanced tecnology.
What is Sci-Fi?
When the chronological order is interrupted to show a scene that refers to the past.
What is a flashback?
The Grinch and jealousy are connected to this colour.
What is green?
Noice which enhance the viewing experience added in post-production.
What are sound effects?
Most films follow a structure like this.
What is a three-act structure?
A hybrid genre filled with humour and love, like the movie Love Actually (2003).
What is a romantic comedy?
The name of the technique when showing the perspective of a person standing behind a character involved in the action, without wholly taking up the viewing position of this character.
What is an over-the-shoulder shot?
This is an allusion to someone being greedy from Charles Dickinson's A Christmas Carol.
What is a Scrooge?
In films, there can be a lot of different categories of it which only the audience can hear - folk, classic, rock, etc....
What is background music?
The adversary to a protagonist.
What is an antagonist?
Drawing inspiration from the 1865-1890s America, this gunslinging genre was popular in the 20th Century.
What is a Western?
When the chronological order is interrupted to show a scene to anticipate future events.
What is a flashforward?
A cousin of symbolism, this literary device refers to a word or expression used with a different meaning than it usually has
What is a metaphor?
This string instrument is often added to films to show sadness or intense romance.
What is a violin?
The snowball effect starting the conflict of the story.
What is an inciting incident?
The film Black Swan (2010) belongs to this hybrid genre.
What is a psychological horror?
A technique used which can be used to show the general location at the start of a scene
What is an establishing shot?
An object symbolising attentive students and knowledge being passed on in Dead Poets Society (1989).
What is a bright candle?
Spoken language between two characters in a film.
What is dialogue?
Our willingness to believe the unbelievable for the sake of enjoyment.
What is suspension of disbelief?