The term for the composition of a scene that helps to communicate the overall theme of the film. It includes setting, lighting, music, as well as all elements that combine to create the totality of the scene.
What is Mise-en-scene?
100
A pan is an example of this aspect of filmmaking.
What is camera movement?
100
Another word for the main character.
What is a protagonist?
100
The reason Hitchcock chose to film Psycho in black and white.
What is he thought color would be too shocking.
100
"In a small New Zealand settlement, the locals claim descent from Whale Ride Paikea."
What is description?
200
A character or plot that is found across cultures and time in literature and film. Example: a hero who goes on a journey.
What is an archetype?
200
An establishing shot occurs at this point during a scene.
What is the beginning?
200
The literary equivalent of "homage" in film.
What is allusion?
200
Three of the films that Pleasantville pays homage to.
What is Patton, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Shawshank Redemption.
200
"Hitchcock explores the morality of voyeurism in a number of films."
What is interpretation?
300
A shot from a particular character's point of view. The audience sees what the character sees.
What is a subjective shot, or POV shot?
300
Final decisions about the types of cuts to be used are made during this stage of the filmmaking process.
What is editing?
300
The term for a repeated image in a film.
What is a motif?
300
An example of symbolism in Pleasantville.
What is the use of color?
300
"Billy Wilde has prepared a script that is human, tender, sad and funny."
What is evaluation?
400
The camera moves through space on a wheeled dolly.
What is a tracking shot?
400
A shot/reverse shot is used most effectively during this type of situation.
What is a conversation?
400
The point in a narrative structure when it seems as if nothing can get worse for the main character.
What is climax?
400
The #1 reason Citizen Kane is considered by so many film associations to be the best film of all time.
What is the genius of Orson Welles who invented most of the film techniques that are used today.
400
Stanley Kubrick uses a steadicam to track the characters as they move about.
What is analysis?
500
Diffused shadows and atmospheric pools of light. Produces less illumination and has a dark atmosphere and tone.
What is low key lighting?
500
The most basic part of a film.
What is a frame?
500
Literary term for a class or subclass of storytelling.
What is genre?
500
The best reason that "Rosebud" is significant in Citizen Kane.
What is the symbolic importance of the sled which stands for Kane's loss of innocence?