An early term for documentary film. The Lumiere Brothers are famous for making many of these.
What is an actuality?
100
In this acting style the actor actually cultivates his character's emotions and then externalizes them.
What is Method Acting?
100
They believed in art for art's sake
Who are the Impressionists?
100
This springboard establishes the film's characters, dialogue, action and setting.
What is the writer's script?
100
Epstein described this as "the soul of cinema"
What is the close up?
200
These early French filmmaker brothers organized the first screening of their film works in 1895.
Who are the Lumiere Brothers?
200
An actor might use these to control pacing, to be one step ahead might energize the scene, while falling behind might create a sense of lethargy.
What are beats?
200
Considered the person responsible for a film's message; from the French for "author."
What is an auteur?
200
This dramatic structure generally unfolds in three acts, emphasizes continuity and causality, and contains six major plot elements.
What is linear, classical, traditional, or Aristotelian structure?
200
"Trick" films are made possible through what camera intervention?
what is stopping the camera?
300
This is a term that refers to the material on which a film is photographed; it can be either fast or slow, depending on how much light is needed to create an exposure.
What is film stock?
300
One of the nine critical criteria for judging a performance, this term describes when the actor looks and acts appropriately for his role.
What is expressive coherence?
300
A piece of decor becomes one of these by entering into the plot or being used by an actor in a meaningful way.
What is a prop?
300
This stylization of a story combines structure with configuration.
What is narrative?
300
Demille made use of these extreme form of low-key lighting in his film "The Cheat."
What is chiaroscuro lighting?
400
This spinning proto-cinematic toy featured a bird on one side and a cage on the other.
What is a Thaumatrope?
400
Derived from the Greek word for "mask," this term describes a combination of an actor's physicality, personality, talent and mythology.
What is persona?
400
This type of lighting creates high contrast, deep shadows, and an anxious psychological state by exploiting a large ratio between the back light and key light.
What is low-key lighting?
400
Elements of this aspect of literary design are determined by access to information, or through whom information in the story is being filtered.
What is point-of-view?
400
Bazin felt this camera technique re-introduced audience participation to sound film.
What is deep focus?
500
What is sound design?
500
In this early acting style, common in silent cinema, the performer adopts extremely expressive, exaggerated facial expressions and gestures.
What is Pantomime/ Presentational Acting?
500
This feature of visual design can be either representational or abstract (or a combination of the two) and is one of the first clues as to the mood, atmosphere, and meaning of a film.
What is title design?
500
This aspect of literary design, which can also exist in visual or aural forms, is used both to draw attention to particular items and to stitch together elements from different parts of a film through repetition.
What is a motif?
500
He originally invented his "camera gun" in order to study birds in flight