Script
On-Set
Studio System + Directors
Photo-graphy
Movie Trivia
100

Category of a movie, such as action, or horror

Genre

100

Last shot of a film set

Martini Shot

100

Name three of the original big five studios

MGM, Warner Bros, Paramount, Fox, RKO

100

Opening at the back of a camera lens

Aperture

100

The dying words of Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane

Rosebud

200

A sentence that describes the overall story of a movie

Logline

200

The time you must be on set and ready to work

Call time

200

During the Hollywood Studio Era, actors would be under contract to a studio with this system

The Star System

200

Using lines in a frame to control the viewer's eye toward your subject in the picture

Leading lines

200

The highest-grossing R-rated film of all time that was made in 2019

Joker

300

The way the character changes in the movie through the hero's journey. Involves personal struggles and internal conflict.

Character Arc

300
The main light on an actor

Key light

300

Director of Hugo whose career spans more than 50 years

Martin Scorsese

300

The difference between the darkest and lightest tones in an image

Dynamic range

300

The film that received the most Academy Awards at the Oscars in 2020

Parasite

400

The Moment in a hero/ heroine's journey when he or she is removed from everyday life.

Call to adventure

400

Re-filming part of a scene from a specific point in the action

Pick up
400

Director of Selma and creator of series on OWN network

Ava DuVernay

400

The distance between the optical center of a camera lens and the camera sensor

Focal length

400

Buzz Lightyear's famous quote in Toy Story

"To infinity and beyond!"

500

Structure that most Hollywood movies use composed of the setting, conflict, and resolution

Three-Act Structure

500

A shot that is framed just above the knees of the subject

Cowboy shot

500

American cinema movement that sprouted in the late 1960s

Hollywood New Wave

500

A camera that combines the optics of a traditional single lens reflex camera with a digital sensor

DSLR Camera

500

The first animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars

Beauty and the Beast