Ideology
This refers to a set of ideas, values, and life-goals held by a person, a group, a class, or a culture
What is ideology?
This character travels to the past in Back to the Future
Who is Marty?
What is the 180 Degree rule
The events of the film that only occur on screen are not the story but this
What is plot?
If everything in a scene is weighted equally, the composition is said to be this
What is balanced?
Films that very clearly express beliefs, ides, and values are said to have this kind of ideology
What is explicit?
This is the most dominant style of filmmaking, situated between realism and formalism
What is classicism?
This editing technique cuts between a character and an object to make the audience understand the character is looking at that object
Music, images, settings, and audio that the character in the films can see and hear are part of the film's this
What is diegesis?
This type of form is more obviously staged, styled, and limited
What is a closed form?
Do The Right Thing occurs during this kind of weather event
What is a heat wave?
This type of shot often shows actors from the waist up and is meant to make the audience feel connected to the characters
What is a medium shot?
This type of editing creates the feeling that two scenes in different settings are occurring at the same time
What is cross-cutting or parallel editing?
This is the object that leads to Harold's eventual (non)-death in Stranger Than Fiction
What is his watch?
What is Oregon?
This a character, object, or archetype that is an alternative force cast in opposition to the dominant cultural, political, or social environment
What is "the other"?
This kind of tilted camera angle is often used to show the characters hallucinating or disoriented
What is the oblique angle?
In Smoke Signals, the two main characters go to Arizona because who has died?
Who is Arnold?
Gianetti states that these have four stages in their life cycle: Primitive, Classical, Revisionist, and Parodic
What is a genre?
This term refers to how close or far away characters and the camera are
What is proxemics?
Gianetti uses this model to simplify complex binaries like Cooperation vs. Competition and Past vs. Future
What is Left-Center-Right Model?
This form of lighting, often used in film noir, uses dark shadows and bright lights and conveys a mysterious mood
What is high contrast?
This school of editing prefers long takes and deep shots over quick cuts
The standard story sequence of exposition, rising action, climax, and falling action is also called this, with the initials C.N.P.
What is the classical narrative paradigm?
Objects that have little weight or importance in the frame are said to be this, a word that starts with s