Freytags Pyramid
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Camera Shoots
Vocabulary
100
What is the dramatic moment of the story representing a turning point?
climax
100
What is one event that occurs in act one of Mr. Smith goes to Washington?
Jefferson Smith and Clarrisa Sanders work at Willison Creek
100
What camera movement moves toward the camera?
Zoom
100
What is a single photograph on a strip of motionpicture film?
frame
200
What are the cause and effects that lead to a turning point in act two?
rising action
200
What is one inciting incident in this movie?
Mr. Smith writes a bill
200
What is a wheeled platform for a camera stand?
dolly
200
What is the position of the camera so as to suggest to the audience?
subjective point of veiw
300
What are events that occur early in the film and sets the motion of the film?
inciting incident
300
How does Mr. Smith makes the decision of gouing to serve in the United States?
flips a coin
300
What is the name of the shoot that shows you a big picture?
close up
400
What is the main idea or message the director hopes to set to communicate with the audience?
theme
400
What is one of the reasons the director choose Yankee Doodle as the theme song to this movie?
it is light hearted song
400
What shoot shows you a image that is kind of in the middle?
medium shoot
500
What is the background information about the chatacters or the setting of the story usually presented in act one?
exposition
500
How does director Frank Capra explain how he feels about the movie?
He says that the movie was based on a good honest man
500
What is the name of the shoot that shows you the image from a distance?
extreme long shot
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