Writing
Film Terminology
Important Vocab
Movie Elements
Writing Problems
100
The group of people who will be reading your review
What is audience
100
This term means the words spoken by characters in a movie
What is dialogue?
100
This word starts with "c" and means evoking interest, attention, or admiration in a powerfully irresistible way
What is compelling?
100
The leading character or one of the major characters in a movie
What is a protagonist?
100
Often done incorrectly, this is the proper way to write the title of a short film
What is with quotation marks?
200
Every review needs to make a convincing one of these
What is an argument?
200
The word used to describe the technical aspects of filming a movie
What is cinematography?
200
A word meaning a specific type of movie (comedy, drama, etc)
What is genre?
200
A main underlying idea or message of a film
What is theme?
200
Reviews that don't provide plenty of this (one word) for their arguments will get graded down
What is evidence?
300
This is what a person who writes reviews is called
What is critic?
300
This is the word for the person in charge of most aspects of filming a movie
What is a director?
300
A character that is believable or convincing (a word we've recently discussed)
What is credible?
300
A good plot doesn't go perfectly; it needs at least one of these to be interesting and realistic
What is conflict?
300
This is when two complete sentences are joined together without the right punctuation or conjunction.
What is a run-on sentence?
400
A movie review is this type of writing (out of the four types)
What is persuasive?
400
This word means the assigning of certain actors to play particular roles
What is casting?
400
A plot that seems deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously (this is a word we've recently discussed)
What is contrived?
400
Many movies provoke this, a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.
What is suspense?
400
Often done incorrectly, this is the proper way to write the title of a feature length film
What is underlined (if handwritten) or italicized (if typed)?
500
Every review needs to make a convincing one of these
What is an argument?
500
Original music (often orchestral) written for a film
What is a film score?
500
A word meaning slow-moving and unexciting
What is plodding?
500
This is the word for the way that the main conflict in a movie is ended (starts with "r")
What is resolution?
500
People who turn in bad final drafts should have spent more time at this important step
What is revision?
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