Helen's Bookshelf
A Dr. Seuss book which uses the name of a certain animal in the title four times.
What is One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish?
A version of a font meant to make letters seem more connected and make reading more fluid by mirroring cursive letters.
What is italic?
The artistic period we are currently in.
What is post-modernism?
What is a shot-reverse-shot?
A style of acoustic guitar playing in which fingers are used to play melody and harmonising notes.
What is finger-picking?
The author of works such as “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of the Red Death”.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
What are serifs?
A painting style that used small, but identifiable brush strokes, for example pointillism, famously used by Van Gogh.
What is impressionism.
A series of drawings meant to illustrate the camera and actor positions in different shots.
What is a story board?
The metal strips on the neck of the guitar which allow notes to be played accurately without having to hit the exact right spot on the neck.
What are frets?
A German book subtitled "The Story of a Murderer".
What is Perfume/Das Parfüm?
The space in between letters, which may be adjusted in order to move letters closer together so they technically overlap, though visually it just removes awkward blank space.
What is kerning?
A philosophical movement that focussed primarily on intellectualism and reason.
What is the Age of Enlightenment?
An expression for when the camera is situated at an angle in order to make the shot feel unbalanced or off-kilter.
What is a dutch angle?
A device that can be used to press down all of the guitar strings to tune them all up by changing the length of the string.
What is a capo?
A fantasy world primarily made of small islands, populated by people who have both a true name and a name they normally use.
What is Earthsea?
A type of alignment in which the line of text always ends in exactly same place, achieved through subtle changes in spacing.
What is justified alignment?
A musical style in which individual melodic lines are often combined to form a larger symphony and also uses harpsichords.
What is baroque music?
Film footage without important audio that is shown during things like narration or story telling, providing supplemental visual information.
What is b-roll footage?
A chord in which the pointer finger is used to press down all the strings.
What is a barre chord?
A story in which the titular main character lives through several centuries and also switches gender at one point.
What is Orlando by Virginia Woolf?
Letters that are made into one glyph in order to prevent awkward overlapping and make it look better, commonly used in combinations such as fi or ffi.
What are ligatures?
A typographical style which mirrored calligraphers writing, using a modulated stroke, a consistent, humanist stroke axis, and large aperture.
What is Renaissance?
A technique in which the zoom of the lens is changed while also moving the camera so the size of the main focus doesn't change, but the relative size of the background and their surroundings change.
The standard tuning of a guitar.
What is EADGBE?