Elements of Narrative
This refers to the anxiety brought on by a partial uncertainty: the end is certain, but the means is uncertain.
What is suspense?
This person assists the director and cinematographer and is ultimately responsible for the look of the movie--its individual sets, locations, furnishings, properties, and costumes.
Who is the production designer?
This is a shot that lasts significantly longer in duration than a conventional shot, with no cuts interrupting the shot.
What is a long take?
This type of shot "looks" up and down", pivoting vertically. It is shot from a stationary tripod camera.
What is a tilt shot?
This is the name of the influential cinematographer who is famous for his collaborations with Alfonso Cuaron.
Who is Emmanuel Lubezki?
This refers to the way that the story events are organized, including plot events, order, and duration.
What is narrative structure?
This concepts refers to when the cinematographer breaks the frame into three vertical sections and three horizontal sections, resulting in a grid.
What is the rule of thirds?
This concept refers to the distance between the camera (and the thus the viewer) and the subject on screen.
What is implied proximity?
This shot is accomplished by a camera being mounted on a wheeled platform so that it moves smoothly and freely along the ground. It is one of the most effective uses of moving camera.
What is a dolly shot?
This filmmaker's film journals inspired several action sequences in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report.
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
This type of relationship is characterized when the screen duration corresponds directly to plot duration.
What is a real-time relationship?
This concept refers to when the director denies our expectation of balance by purposefully breaking the rule of thirds.
What is compositional stress?
This concept refers to the distance in front of a camera (and its lens) in which the subjects are in apparent sharp focus.
What is depth of field?
This type of shot is typically used to convey a sense of a character's power over other characters and objects in the scene.
What is a low angle shot?
This is the destination that Theo helps Kee reach at the end of the film Children of Men.
What is The Human Project?
This refers to those things we see and hear on the screen that come from outside the world of the story, such as score music, titles and credits, and voice-over narration.
What is nondiegetic elements?
This concept refers to the way that the camera moves, the frame itself moving through space.
What is kinesis?
This is a general term reserved for technology used to create images that would be too dangerous, too expensive, or simply impossible to achieve with traditional cinematographic approaches.
What is special effects?
This type of shot is accomplished when the camera is tilted so that horizontal and vertical lines on set appear as diagonals in the frame. Doing so causes the world on-screen to appear off-balance or misaligned.
What is a Dutch-angle or oblique-angle shot?
This actor played two different roles in the film The Social Network.
Who is Armie Hammer?
This refers to the event that kicks off the conflict in the plot of a film.
What is the inciting incident?
This refers to the type of lighting which produces an image with very little contrast between the darks and lights.
What is high-key lighting?
This refers to the relationship between the frame's two dimensions, the width of the image to its height.
What is an aspect ratio?
This is a patented harness device worn by the operator that uses a sophisticated system of counterweights and hydraulics to combine the mobility of the handheld camera with the smoothness of a tracking shot.
What is Steadicam?
This term is used to describe a director who has developed a distinctive, recognizable style across his/her career.
What is an auteur?