Media Aesthetics
A stylistic or thematic category for motion pictures based on similarities either in the narrative elements, aesthetic approach, or the emotional response to the film.
What is genre?
The stage design and arrangement of actors in scenes for a theatre or film production, both in visual arts through storyboarding, visual theme, and cinematography, and in narrative storytelling through direction.
What is mise-en- scene?
Known as the "Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films such as Rear Window and and Psycho.
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
Where did the Simpson family live?
What is Springfield?
Thus Alfred Hitchcock thriller is notorious for its shocking “shower scene”
What is Psycho?
The intensity of the color.
This type of lighting has shadowed and dark sections.
What is low key lighting?
Who is Sophia Coppola?
This show is known for all its episode titles beginning with "The one where/when/with..."
What is FRIENDS?
Aaron Sorkin won an Oscar for writing this 2010 drama about the creation of Facebook
What is The Social Network?
The conflicts that come in between each act of a film and drive the narrative.
What is a plot point?
This term asks, "how much is in focus?"
What is depth of field?
American director and screenwriter known for the distinctive visual aesthetic of his quirky comedies and for his collaboration with screenwriter and actor Owen Wilson
Who is Wes Anderson?
Benson, Stabler, Rollins, Tutuola and Novak are all characters in this show.
What is Law and Order: SVU?
This movie was incorrectly announced as the winner of Best Picture at the 2017 Academy Awards, during the greatest Oscars flub of all time.
What is La La Land?
A basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. By keeping the camera on one side of an imaginary axis between two characters, the first character is always frame right of the second character.
What is the 180 degree rule?
This 3 letter abbreviated term, used in filmmaking to create special effects and the illusion of motion. It can be used to create giant, fantastical creatures or fill in a crowd in lieu of hiring a bunch of extras.
What is CGI?
His first film, Reservoir Dogs appeared at the Sundance Film Festival.
Who is Quentin Tarantino?
Every episode of Seinfeld contains an image or reference to what superhero?
Who is superman?
The highest-grossing war movie of all time and Clint Eastwood’s highest-grossing movie ever
What is American Sniper?
The individual responsible for the overall aesthetic of the story, who gives the viewers a sense of the time period, the plot location, and character actions and feelings
What is a production designer?
The logically or realistically existing sound within a scene. Music playing on the radio or the sounds of keys turning within the ignition would be examples of this.
What is diegetic sound?
He began his career in the New Hollywood era, and is one of the most commercially successful directors in history, founding Dreamworks.
Who is Steven Spieilberg?
This is the title of the first ever Game of Thrones episode
The head of this animal is front-and-center in an infamous scene from The Godfather
What is a horse?