This device uses repetition of the initial consonant sound at the beginning of the word, in a series of words.
What is alliteration?
This technique involves positioning the camera high above the subject, looking down.
What is a high angle shot?
Lacie Pound is obsessed with increasing her rating. What score does she aim to achieve in order to secure a luxury apartment?
What is 4.5?
In “Dharawal Country,” what recurring theme is evident in the repeated phrase “there is trauma here”?
What is the trauma of colonialism?
Ms O'Rance's favourite book and novel series revolve around this boy wizard
This figure of speech compares two unlike things without using “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
This technique involves quick, successive shots to create a fast-paced scene, usually to music.
What is montage?
This theme in Nosedive explores how people alter their behavior to gain approval and higher ratings from others.
What is the theme of social validation and inauthenticity?
What poetic technique does Saunders use in “Detour” when describing the journey on the road less traveled?
What is metaphor?
Mr Donnelly's favourite team in the NRL just received their third wooden spoon in a row.
Who are the Wests Tigers?
Identify the device that makes the responder picture something.
What is imagery?
This type of shot frames the subject closely, often showing their face and conveying emotion.
What is a close-up shot?
Lacie’s rapid decline in social status begins when she has a public argument and receives a low rating from this key event.
What is the airport meltdown?
In “Transplant,” what experience is Kirli Saunders reflecting on?
What is death and grief?
These NRL players have captured the admiration of Ms. O'Rance
Who is Nicho Hynes and Pat Carrigan?
This device attributes human characteristics to non-human objects or nature.
What is personification?
This type of sound cannot be heard by the characters in the scene.
What is non-diegetic sound?
This film technique is used frequently in Nosedive to emphasise Lacie’s growing desperation, showing her facial expressions closely as she spirals downward
What is a close-up shot?
What technique does Saunders use in this quote from "Dharawal Country": “Ashen limbs ache to heal”
What is personification?
Mr Donnelly's hometown is also famous for being the Australian capital of country music.
What is Tamworth?
dentify the technique in “bloody sap leaks secrets.”
What is symbolism?
The English translation of this technique is "placing on stage."
Mise-en-scène
In Nosedive, this character’s low rating and unfiltered attitude offer Lacie a glimpse of life outside the ratings system, challenging the episode’s central societal norms.
Who is Susan (the truck driver)?
What do the imagery of “sprouts” and “garden” symbolise in “Transplant”?
What is regeneration, memory, hope for the future or personal qualities?
This dietary choice, as practiced by Ms O'Rance, rejects consuming any food that has an animal origin.
What is veganism?