Movies
This rubberfaced Jim Varney character starred in the titularly titled "______ Goes to Jail".
Who is Ernest?
What are kalvins?
The film Grand Budapest Hotel was known for switching these to indicate time period.
What is aspect ratio?
This is the name of the mic that is pinned to the talent's clothing that catches individual audio.
What is a lav mic?
This is both the device and the name of a book that refers to the moment the main character endears themselves to the audience.
What is Save the Cat?
This gender-bending film was banned from the Toronto International Film Festival and became an underground sensation.
What is "The People's Joker"?
This is the industry standard for lighting.
What is "three point lighting?"
This type of shot is known as the shot that sets the scene and usually shows a wide, scope shot of a location.
What is the Establishing/Wide Shot?
This is the name of the mic that is normally held above the talent and can capture the whole scene.
What is a shotgun mic?
In story structure, this is known as the part of the movie where the initial story is introduced. Matt described it as the lighting of the wick of a stick of dynamite.
What is the catalyst?
This Sylvester Stallone vehicle - written by Save the Cat scribe Blake Snyder - was referred to by its star as "one of the worst movies ever made".
What is "Stop or My Mom Will Shoot!"?
These are the names of the three types of light you would use in your setup.
What are "key light", "fill light", and "head/back light"?
This is tool videographers use to properly frame their subject by drawing two vertical lines and two horizontal lines across the screen.
What is the Rule of Thirds?
These thick covers are used to dampen sound (ex. air conditioners, fridge).
What are sound blankets?
This is the story device that explains what the movie is ABOUT. It's essentially the thesis for the film.
What is the theme?
The Director of Photography of this Darren Aronofsky directed film started crying during a take and almost messed up the scene.
What is "Requiem for a Dream?"
Available in different transparencies, this is the name of the item placed in front of a light to lessen the intensity.
What is diffusion?
This type of slanted angle produced a feeling of unease and distress.
What is a canted/dutch angle?
This is the piece of equipment we CLAP at the beginning of the scene to sync the sound.
What is a slate?
This is the moment that every movie has where the "whiff of death" is featured and it feels like everything is hopeless for our hero.
What is All is Lost?
During the filming of American Psycho, it was revealed that Christian Bale is able to do this on command.
What is sweating?
This type of commonly found lighting has a color temperature between 2700-3200K with a warm, yellow glow.
What is tungsten light?
This Sam Esmail show that ran for 4 seasons and stars Rami Malek commonly used unbalanced images and large amount of headroom to evoke an emotion.
What is Mr. Robot?
This is the name of the master audio track that we forgot to get when filming "The Messenger".
What is room tone?
This Disney classic about a kid getting a million dollars was the only other film Save the Cat's Blake Sydner had produced.
What is Blank Check?