Mise en Scene
Close up, long and cowboy
Shot proxemics
What they say and do, how they look, narratorial comment and other characters' comments + setting and symbolism
Characterisation
Texts are not mirrors of the real world; they are constructions
Representation
"I am the scales of justice, conductor of the choir of death!"
The Bullet Farmer, Mad Max: Fury Road
Reasoning as to the currency and relevance of a speech
Kairos
Extreme birds eye view, low and high
Angle
Temporal and spatial
Setting
The nature of the implied speakers in a text
Voice
“We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.”
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
Establishing a person's credibility or authority
Ethos
Horizontal, vertical, triangular
Composition
The emotional resonance of the language selected
Tone
Broad categories based on form/structure or content/subject
Genre
“I wanted to be part of the world but I didn’t see anyone like me in it.”
Jimmy LeBrecht, Crip Camp
Critical data, statistics or common sense
Logos
Natural, high key, backlit
Lighting
A repeated object, quote, gesture, action
Motif
World view; shared beliefs and practices; ways of thinking
Ideology
Dear PE teachers, Dear creepy man, Dear random street people
Olivia Muscat, Selected Epistles
Pulling on the heart strings by using emotively-charged langauge
Pathos
Full front, quarter turn, profile
The entire story is framed through this lens
Narrative point of view
A position from which something can be viewed and considered
Perspective
"Home, in the end, is of course not just the place where you sleep. It's the place where you stand."
Pico Iyer, Where is Home?
The over-arching purpose of the speech
Telos