Early Days
This optical illusion allows our brains to fill in the "gaps" between frames of a film.
Persistence of Vision
We see what the character sees in this type of shot.
Point Of View (P.O.V.) Shot
Everything someone holds, uses, eats, or has decorating their homes.
Props (Properties)
The name for hand drawn animation
Traditional or Cel animation
These sounds are things that the characters in the film can hear like phones ringing, doors creaking, or the radio playing.
Diegetic Sound
The last name of the French brothers that are considered some of the founding fathers of film. Their last name means light.
The Lumière brothers
This shot tells us where and when we are, often times filmed in a wide shot.
Establishing shot
A team of designers, drapers, stitchers, and concept artists come together to create this aspect of film.
Costumes
Used in films like Wallace and Gromit or The Corpse Bride, this animation style consists of a series of pictures of whatever is in scene being slightly moved.
Stop Motion Animation
These sounds exist separate from the story, often times in the form of musical numbers, narration, or the score of the movie.
Non-Diegetic sound
The Lumière brother's invention. It doubles not only as a camera, but as a projector.
Cinématographe
Like looking at a bug, this shot is meant to make someone look weak or vulnerable
Even if you think its just natural, there's a whole crew in charge of making sure you can see what the director wants to be seen.
Lighting
Built with rigged models, this type of animation is now standard. Even if its closer to puppeteering than traditional animation.
Reoccurring themes in a film, often represented visually with symbols, colors, and character development.
Motif
The Wizard of Menlo Park's device that allows single viewing of a film.
This shot was used on the Ed Sullivan Show to film Elvis. He was filmed only from the waist up.
Medium Shot
Jumping off of things, taking falls, even down to just dancing, these professionals make sure the talent for the movies don't get hurt
Stuntmen/Stunt coordinators
A type of animation that draws over film to capture fluid movement. This technique is often used for music videos.
Rotoscoping
An object that drives the plot, but has little to no consequence as to what it is and could be replaced with almost any other object and still drive the story.
MacGuffin
These types of early films showed a real slice of life, filming real life events to show to audiences.
Actualités
A disturbing angle often used in horror movies to unsettle or disorient.
Dutch Angle Shot
Lighting, Props, actors, even down to the shadows. Overall Visual Concept
Mise-en-scène
Even though it may seem newer, this type of combined type animation has been done as far back as the 30s. The most famous feature film using this technique is "Who Framed Rodger Rabbit" (1988)
Hybrid Animation
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