Genre
This genre often features cowboys, deserts, and dramatic standoffs.
What is a Western?
Body language, facial expressions, and tone of voice are all a part of this film element.
What is acting?
This shot type frames a character from the shoulders up, often used to show emotions or reactions.
What is a close up?
Released in 1977, this space opera had a massive turnout in cinemas.
What is Star Wars?
This long running American family sitcom set in Springfield has been on TV since 1989.
Who are The Simpsons?
Movies like Spiderman, Wonder Woman, and the Fantastic Five are all examples of this popular sub-genre.
What is 'superhero'?
Costumes, settings, props, and acting are all examples of this type of code.
What is a symbolic code?
This is a moving shot type where the camera follows the subject as it moves.
What is a tracking shot (or dolly shot)
This iconic film is where many people first saw Keanu Reeves.
What is 'The Matrix'.
This Japanese animation studio is known for cinematographic animations in films like My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle.
What is Studio Ghibli?
This genre makes frequent use of unique cinematography techniques, such as dutch tilts, shakey or hand-held cameras, and extreme shot types and angles.
What is a horror?
Camera angles, shot types, editing techniques, audio, lighting, and CGI are all a part of this code.
What is a technical code?
This editing technique quickly cuts from shot to shot, usually to show a sequence of events, simultaneous events, or time passing.
What is a montage?
This 2017 horror film became an instant classic due to its poignant social commentary on casual racism and microaggressions.
What is 'Get Out'.
The animated series Arcane is based on this popular MOBA game.
What is League of Legends?
This genre is popular both in the live action and animated space, and uses music to tell parts or all of the plot.
What is a musical?
Diegetic and non diegetic are terms used to describe the characters knowledge of this film element.
What is an audio code? (Also: sound/music)
This technique, seen in films like Baby Driver, creates impact by timing cuts with music.
What is rhythmic editing?
(Other valid answers:
Music-paced editing/tempo
Audio pacing)
The Oscar-Winning film, 'Flow', features cats, and made waves after creating a beautiful storyline without the use of....
What is dialogue?
This film uses frame-rate-variations and animation techniques to make the main character feel awkward and clueless compared to his peers.
What is 'Spiderman Into the Spiderverse'
(or: Spiderman, Miles Morales Spiderman, Spiderverse)
This genre is known for its cynical detectives, high‑contrast lighting, often monochrome colour palettes, and plots filled with crime and betrayal.
What is film noir?
This is what the term 'mise en scene' refers to in Film.
What is 'everything that appears in the frame and how it is arranged'?
This technique, often used by Edgar Wright, rapidly magnifies the subject using a sudden zoom paired with sharp sound effects, often to exaggerate reactions, highlight trivial actions, or create comedic intensity.
What is a 'smash zoom'?
This film combined absurdist humour, kung‑fu action, and emotional family drama to win seven Oscars, including Best Picture.
What is Everything Everywhere All at Once?
This animated short film follows the story of a mother who is over-protective of her dumpling child.
What is Bao?