Heads in the Shot
A shot that focuses closely on one character’s face often emphasizes this.
What is emotion?
This term means what the camera includes and excludes in a shot.
What is framing?
This word means the type or category of movie.
What is genre?
This term means turning a story from one form into another, such as a novel into a film.
What is adaptation?
This term means film techniques that make fake or impossible things feel believable.
What is movie magic?
A shot with two characters in the same frame is often used to show this.
What is their relationship or interaction?
The frame helps guide what the audience does this.
What is notice or focus on?
Horror movies usually create expectations of these feelings.
What are fear, suspense, and danger?
Films and novels tell stories differently, so adaptations usually have to do this.
What is make changes?
Special effects, editing, lighting, makeup, sound, and costumes can help create this.
What is a believable illusion?
When characters are standing far apart in the same frame, it may suggest this.
What is emotional distance or conflict?
Empty space around a character can make the character feel this way.
What is isolated, lonely, small, or overwhelmed?
Romantic comedies usually create expectations of this.
What are romance, humor, conflict, misunderstanding, and resolution?
Films often show a character’s thoughts through images, acting, sound, or dialogue instead of this.
What is written narration or internal thoughts?
Music in a film can shape the audience’s mood, emotion, and this.
What is tension?
A character placed higher than another character may suggest this.
What is power or control?
A character shown through a doorway, window, mirror, or wall may seem this way.
What is trapped, separated, watched, or framed symbolically?
A movie that combines western and science fiction elements is doing this.
What is mixing genres?
A filmmaker might combine two minor characters into one in order to do this.
What is simplify the story for the screen?
Silence in a movie can make a scene feel realistic, awkward, lonely, serious, or this.
What is intense?
A character placed on the edge of the frame instead of the center may seem this way.
What is isolated, ignored, or pushed aside?
When something important happens outside the frame, the director may be creating this.
What is tension, mystery, fear, or suspense?
When a movie starts like a comedy but becomes very serious, it may be doing this.
What is breaking or challenging genre expectations?
Instead of asking whether a movie is exactly the same as the book, viewers should ask this.
What is what did the movie change, and why might that change work for film?
A fake monster, spaceship, or fantasy world can still feel meaningful if the audience accepts this.
What is the world of the movie?