Genre Conventions
Genre depends on these two things.
What are subjects and themes?
Mise-en-scene can do these main things.
What are character development, and themes.
This sound is simple talking.
What is dialogue?
This technique is an immediate change from one shot to another
What is a cut?
This camera work can show dominance or lowliness.
What is camera height(high or low angle.)
Genre iconography has two parts.
What are images and people?
The setting of a film can be done in two ways.
What are set and location?
These sounds are made for the film, for realism.
What are SFX(sound effects.)
This technique is used to present actions in a way that does not use as much time as it would normally.
What is elliptical editing?
This shot can help put the viewer into the scene and feel like they're there.(used in speaking)
What is an over-the-shoulder shot?
Genre cycles are a group of films that share an aspect.
What is popularity?
This type of makeup is theatrical and plot related, shocks viewer with extremity.
What is expressive makeup?
This type of score disturbs viewers and sound unpleasant.
What is dissonance?
This technique was used in older films and served the same purpose as a fade-out, and can focus a scene on a single emotion.
What is an iris?
This support is used to make tracking shots feel more realistic and may move on a track.
What is a dolly?
A crime thriller has 3 types.
What are supernatural thrillers, political thrillers, and spy thrillers?
These three components make three-point lighting.
What are key light, back light, and fill light?
This sound helps simulate reality and add something that is not present.
What is three-fold lighting?
This editing carries over the audio from shot A to shot B, showing the effect carries on to the next scene
What is a L-Cut?
This shot requires for the camera to be mounted and enables a shot that gives the scope of an area.
What is a crane shot?
Sports films can be these two types of story.
What are underdog to pro and athlete in their prime?
Mise-en-scene has many key aspects to be analyzed and learned.
What is setting, lighting, color, hair and makeup, and acting?
What process uses a production room where props make sounds that are made for a film.
What is the Foley Process?
This modern technique uses unrelated imagery to make a certain feeling, reiterates or introduces larger themes.
What is an intellectual montage?
The standard shot progression follows this pattern to show the movement and emotion of characters.
What is long shot-> medium shot-> close-up?