Terminology Bootcamp
Film Analysis
Screenwriting
Film Festival
Grab Bag!
100

Camera distance focused on the setting of the film and world building

What is an establishing shot OR long shot?

100

Director of Ladybird

Who is Greta Gerwig?

100

Framework that many writers use to build their plot structure

What is the 3 act structure?

100

Winner of best movie poster

What is Panicked Parking?

100

Emotional scene we watched to understand the great use of montages

What is the opening scene of Up?

200

Sound that interacts within the filmic world

What is diegetic?
200

Name of the lead detective in Knives Out

Who is Benoit Blanc?

200

Tool in screenwriting to help express emotions, tone, and intentional action

What is a parenthetical?

200

Movie winner of best editing

What is The Adventure Chronicles of Bennie Hale?

200

Name and author of our summer reading book

What is Making Movies by Sidney Lumet?
300
Light entering the camera and creating unwanted artifacts or reflections

What is a lens flare?

300

Procedure used in Get Out that has been practiced and perfected by the Armitage family.

What is the coagula?

300

Diologue style that mimics everyday life

What is naturalistic?

300

Of the 4 blocks, this many had a Q and A section at the end

What is 2?

300

Winner of Best Picture at the Oscars this year

What is Anora?

400

Placement of people along the "z axis"

What is positioning in depth?

400

Question asked of Chiron that is the core of Moonlight

What is "who is you?"

400

Name of the 5-10 key moments that appear in the plot of a screenplay

What are story beats?

400

Shortest film at the film festival

What is Captcha?

400

Name of a movie watched in film studies LAST year (23-24) that we did not watch this year

What is (one of) Barbie, Arrival, Moonrise Kingdom, Everything Everywhere All at Once

500

Discontinuity editing that conveys abstract ideas through the juxtaposition of images in order to create meaning / feeling

What is an intellectual montage? (will accept Soviet Montage)

500

Parasite won many Oscars, including Best Picture. This film, from the same year, was in high/main competition with Parasite.

What is 1917?

500

Often, a plot point that is included before the climax of the story to further complicate a character's journey

What is the defeat?

500

Film that "closed" B block at the festival

What is Doomscroll?

500

Day of week, month, and day of our field trip to the Coolidge Corner Theater?

When is Wednesday, October 9?

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