A frame in which the full-body of a character is visible.
What is a long shot?
100
Based on the story line and details in the animation, we can presume that the film is set in:
What is the Middle East?
100
An overview of a story, event, or incident.
What is a summary?
100
The pan can often be used to establish this, a literary element that describes where the film (or scene) is taking place.
What is setting?
100
Costume and set design typically fall under this type of film analysis.
What is dramatic?
200
The camera moves from left-to-right or right-to-left on the horizontal axis.
What is a pan?
200
The soldiers are separated when this blasts through an alleyway.
What is an RPG?
200
A personal, written opinion of a film.
What is an evaluation?
200
Books are often times turned into films (and, more recently, vice-versa). This is called an:
What is an adaptation?
200
You'll often times find this type of lighting in romantic comedies, musicals, and costumed dramas.
What is high-key?
300
Also known as "canted," it is often times used in films with a surreal story line, or to give off a sense of peculiarity in an otherwise normal setting.
What is a dutch angle?
300
Sound is of particular importance to this film, with this sound being heard at both the beginning and end...
What is a helicopter?
300
All reviews (and any form of writing, for that matter), should start with this, crucial to captivating the reader.
What is a hook?
300
In the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's ruby red slippers have often times been seen as a _______ of self-power, or a thing that represents or stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
300
This type of movement has two names, and typically involves following a film's characters around.
What is a tracking or dolly shot?
400
When the image slowly begins to fade out, but instead of going to black, is replaced by another image that fades in.
What is a dissolve?
400
The animators of this film put much detail in their work, even going so far as to having this insect land on the goggles of our protagonist.
What is a fly?
400
This involves examining a film's literary, dramatic, and cinematic elements.
What is an analysis?
400
The 'feel' of a film or book.
What is the mood?
400
A cinematic technique often used to portray characters that are huge, powerful, dominating, and/or in control.
What is a low angle shot?
500
Sound that only one character in a film can hear.
What is internal diegetic?
500
Multiple times we are given point-of-view shots, also known as this.
What is an eye-line match?
500
In reviewing Exodus: Gods and Kings, Todd Jorgensen comments that the story "emphasizes more generic themes of revenge, obsession, and betrayal." This is an example of what type of analysis?
What is Literary?
500
If a character has a routine dream that the audience sees multiple times throughout a film, or perhaps one character frequently visits a small, intercity bar, these could be called:
What are recurring images?
500
When a director wants something to be seen in a frame, he/she can use this technique to close-in on it.