Film Techniques
The arrangement of objects/people in a scene.
What is mis-en-scene?
Creates the effect that time is being passed.
What is a quick pan?
What is a close up?
Shows the character from the shoulders, up.
When a scene transitions through a slow fade away.
What is a dissolve?
A young prostitute who is saved by Travis in the film Taxi Driver.
Who is Iris?
the presentation of visual elements in an image, especially the placement of the subject in relation to other objects
What is framing?
Props that are made less sturdy so that they break on impact.
What are breakaway props?
What is Low angle shot?
Shows the character from a low perspective.
A single image meant to draw focus or attention to a certain subject.
What is a freeze frame?
A part time detective/ movie theatre worker solves a fictitious crime.
Sherlock Jr.
The quadrant system, and also anything that is involved in making and producing the finished product.
What is form?
Refers to a work's subject matter, or what is being depicted.
What is content?
What is a medium shot?
Shows character from the waist, up.
A reference or paid respect to a previous film.
What is paying homage?
Go on a bank robbing spree, while trying to evade the authorities.
Who are Bonnie and Clyde?
Extreme backgrounds, a foreground and middle ground.
What is deep focus?
A reoccurring idea or visual/ audio signifier.
What is a motif?
What is a dutch shot/ angle?
A tilted shot.
The heavy metal that was playing in the car for the film Funny Games.
What is non diegetic sound?
Is a trouble singer with superstitious beliefs and awaits test results from her doctor.
Who is Florence "Cleo"?
When a scene has three characters on screen talking or performing.
What is triangular composition?
a technique which employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is.
What is forced perspective?
What is a Cowboy shot?
Shot from the waist or hip, and up.
A cut from one shot to another where the two shots are matched by the action or subject matter.
What is match-cutting?
Goes on an adventure with his father to find a stolen item.
Who is Bruno?