Writing
When Children of Men uses a visual image of a mother and child to refer to a famous painting or religious icon, it is using this writing device.
What is an Allusion?
According to theorist David Bordwell, our expectations for a movie's plot are based on our "schemata," which comes from this.
What is Prior Viewing Experience?
This dominant American acting style, rooted in internal emotion, might be used by an actor to tap into the "inner spirit" of a character like the Kim family in Parasite.
Answer: What is The Method?
This high-contrast lighting style, featuring deep shadows, would be used to hide characters or create suspense in a film like Children of Men.
What is Low Key lighting?
This "form" of mise en scene suggests that the world continues past the edges of the frame, treating the camera like a window.
What is Open Form?
This person is often hired to "polish" a script or fix a specific scene, but they often do not get their name on the screen credits.
Who is a Script Doctor?
This phase of a genre "revises" the traditional hero, often making them more complex, cynical, or morally ambiguous.
What is the Revisionist phase (or cycle)?
Often contrasted with "The Method," this style requires extensive training and focuses on the physical "doing" and vocal control of a character.
What is Classical Acting?
In the gritty, low-light world of Children of Men, a cinematographer might use this highly sensitive type of film stock to capture images with "available" light.
What is Fast Stock?
This "form" is more stylized and self-contained, with every element in the frame carefully placed for a specific, structured effect.
What is Closed Form?
Your notes state that movies are made at least four times; name two of the four phases.
What are Written, Shot, Edited, or Marketed? (Need any two).
Screenwriters often use this psychologist’s theories on the "Id, Ego, and Superego" to create deep internal conflict in their characters.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Because screen acting is "fragmented" into many takes, the final performance is actually constructed in post-production by this person.
Who is the Editor?
A cinematographer might use these colors (blues and greens) to evoke a sense of sadness, isolation, or coldness in a scene.
What are Cool Colors?
This is the study of how people use space to communicate relationships, such as the distance between the wealthy and the poor in Parasite.
What is Proxemics?
While novelists create "literature," your lecture notes suggest that screenwriters are actually in the business of making...
What are Changes?
This cycle of a genre is defined by "mocking" or deconstructing the classic rules and clichés of that genre.
What is the Parodic phase (or cycle)?
An actor like Song Kang-ho in Parasite who can play a wide variety of roles without being limited by their own personality is known as this.
What is an Actor Star (or Character Star)?
This person oversees the "look" of the movie, making final decisions on lenses, lighting quality, and film stock.
Who is the Cinematographer (or Director of Photography)?
This concept suggests that the "how"—the way a scene is visually staged—is just as important as the "what"—the literal plot of the script.
What is Mise en Scene?
To be convincing to an audience, a screenwriter must make sure that their dialogue is "dramatically" this.
What is Possible?
In Syd Field’s 3-act structure, this act is where the characters face the most obstacles and the dramatic tension is at its peak.
What is act II
Realist directors prefer this shot distance because it captures the full body and maintains the "proscenium arch" of live theater.
What are Long Shots?
This technique involves drawing every frame out on paper before production, a method that allows a director to "pre-visualize" the entire film.
What is Storyboarding?
When a director limits the territory available to a character within the screen's edges to symbolize a lack of freedom, they are using this specific style.
What is Tight Framing (or Tightly Framed)?