Film analysis
Film vocabulary
Composition and focus
Going to the movies
Film grab bag
100

For the purpose of our class, there are this many levels of analysis

What is three levels?

100

Instrumental music in a film is called this.

What is the score?

100

This type of shot is used to establish the setting or scene. 

What is an establish shot or extreme long shot?

100

Children and teenagers under 17 can not watch this type of movie unless they are with a parent or guardian.

What is an R-rated movie?

100

These are the different stages of film making.

What are Pre-Production, Production, and Post-Production?

200

Level 1 analysis involves examining these elements.

What are literary elements? 

200

What is in the shot and where is it placed is called this.

What is composition?

200

Soft focus is often used as a visual cue to depict these sequences.

What is dream, flashback or memories?

200

This is a short promotional advertisement for an upcoming feature film, often showed before a movie begins.

What is a movie trailer?

200
The hero or heroine often gets lit in this way.

What is Front Lighting?

300

Plot, characters, setting, and themes are all examples of this type of analysis. 

What is Level 1 analysis?

300

How characters interact with props, choreography and locations on a stage. 

What is blocking?

300

The most common shot, and the most comfortable for film watchers, is called this.

What is a medium shot?
300

Anybody of any age can buy a ticket to a PG-13 movie.

What is true?

300

Characters shot from this angle can look weaker and less in control; sometimes trapped or powerless.

What is a high angle?

400

This type of analysis answers the question of how a specific film came together.

What is Level 2 analysis?

400

This word's translation from French means "placement on stage."

What is Mise En Scene?

400

This shot is often unsettling, and viewers aren't able to discern what they are looking at. 

What is an Extreme Close Up?

400

This person is the creative lead of a movie who shapes the script into a visual story and guides the actors and crew.

Who is the director?

400

These are two techniques for moving the camera: One is up-and-down, the other is left-to-right.

What is tilt and pan? 

500

Level 3 analysis of a film attempts to answer this question by looking at all the elements of Levels 1 and 2. 

Why was this film (or text) created?

500

Elements of a film that are unique to the medium and require a special vocabulary to discuss is this type of analysis.

What is cinematic analysis? 

500
The technique of shifting the focal plane from the foreground to background or vice versa.

What is Rack Focus?

500

Officially called the Academy Awards, this annual presentation to honor excellence in cinematic achievement is called this, informally.

What is the Oscars?

500

Music, sound effects, Foley art, and voiceovers are added post-production and are called this.

What is Non-Diegetic Sound?
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