Mise en Scene
In Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016, USA) this color is used to evoke themes of childhood, innocence, and the true self.
What is Blue?
This type of shot has a large field of view and is often used to establish spatial relationships early in a scene.
What is a wide or establishing shot?
This type of sound refers to the background sounds that are present in a scene or location.
What is Ambient or Environmental Sound?
This narrative beat is typically a world changing event for the protagonist.
What is a catalyst?
This is the oldest film we have watched in this class.
What is Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu, Japan, 1953)?
In Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959, USA) this object is repeatedly used within frames to evoke themes of identity and ego.
What is mirror?
This shot type is probably best for expressing a character's emotion.
What is a close up?
This type of sound is typically the loudest in a traditional movie mix.
What is Dialogue?
Blake Snyder's term for the second half of Act 2 in a 3 act structure, in which things inevitably get worse for the protagonist.
What is Bad Guys Close In?
This film is an example of Third Cinema.
What is Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966, Italy/Algeria)?
This type of lighting is defined by the presence of shadows and contrast. It is often used in film noir and horror films.
What is low key lighting?
This type of lens has a narrow field of view and compresses space along the Z axis.
What is a telephoto lens?
Original, non-diegetic music written to accompany a film.
What is score?
The underlying, unspoken message or dynamic being conveyed by a piece of dialogue. This is often spoken out loud during a climactic moment.
What is subtext?
In the canonical French New Wave Film The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1958, France), this amusement park ride pins Antoine to the walls in such a way that he cannot escape the force of gravity, just as responsibility and the oppressive gravitational forces of the adult world pin him down emotionally and psychologically.
What is the Tilt-O-Whirl?
This is a compositional/cinematographic technique in which the camera is tilted at an angle to produce an unleveled frame. It has been used to convey a sense of tension or psychological trauma and was famously used by Spike Lee in Do the Right Thing.
What is a Dutch Angle?
This shot type is achieved by dollying towards or away from a subject while zooming in the opposite direction, creating a spatial warp.
What is Zolly Shot or Trombone Shot?
The process in which dialogue is rerecorded and replaced in post production.
What is ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) ?
This beat is often the largest plot twist of the film, it raises the stakes of the main character’s goal, can change the goal completely, or at least makes the requirements of the goal much more difficult. Often it is the B Story that incites this plot twist.
(e.g. The end of Hakuna Matata in The Lion King)
What is the midpoint?
This prolific German director is associated with New German Cinema and had a personal life marred by scandals and controversy.
Who is Rainer Werner Fassbinder?
This term is used to describe an actual working light source that exists and can be seen within a film's frame.
What is a practical?
This camera stabilizer was invented in Philadelphia by Garrett Brown.
What is Steadicam?
Patterns of development, Lyrics, Tempo and Volume, Instrumentation, Cultural Significance. These are characteristics of this filmic form.
What is film music?
Lines that either state the obvious — information that the audience or the characters already know — or communicates exactly what the characters are thinking with little to no subtlety or subtext.
What is on-the-nose dialogue?
In an iconic scene from The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1958, USA) Antoine is questioned by a therapist and shares pieces of his backstory that the audience had not previously known. Narratively, this dialogue is an example of _____________.
What is exposition?