Film Vocab
Hero's Journey
Art and Music
Genres
Mis en Scene
100
Use of an off camera voice to tell part of the story
What is Narration
100
Frodo's threshold guardians in The Fellowship of the Ring
What is the Nazgul
100
Character in Casablanca who plays the piano
Who is Sam
100
Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Mean Girls
What is Teen comedy
100
Film that is set on a submarine
U571
200
Central message or main idea of a film or story
What is Theme
200
Film in which the protagonist's Return Journey ends with a spinning top
What is Inception
200
Film that includes a main character who is a painter
What is The Notebook
200
Genre which frequently features nature and natural settings
What is Western
200
Film which includes clocks and trains as motifs
What is Hugo
300
Word for the classification of films that share common, predictable thematic elements, characters, narrative content, mood, or setting
What is Genre
300
The "abyss" for this heroic character involves a journey through a mountain inhabited by the dead.
Who is Aragorn
300
Film that had NO musical score.
What is The Birds
300
Genre to which Rocky would belong
What is Sports
300
Film other than The Birds that uses birds as a motif
What is Forrest Gump or The Notebook
400
A collection of shots and scenes sharing a common theme tied together by music
What is Montage
400
Scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off that represents Cameron's abyss.
What is Cameron goes catatonic/pool scene
400
Film which features Seurat's painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
What is Ferris Bueller's Day Off
400
Genre most associated with The Birds director Alfred Hitchcock
What is thriller (horror OK)
400
Film which features old and young versions of its main characters
What is The Notebook, Lord of the Rings, True Grit, Inception
500
Segment of a film that takes place in the same time and place, often involving the same characters.
What is a Scene
500
The two thresholds Jamal crosses in Finding Forrester
What is bus ride and the window
500
Film which includes painter Salvador Dali, guitarist Django Reinhardt, and writer James Joyce as minor characters as well as filmmaker Georges Melies as a major character
What is Hugo
500
Genre which may include a series of consecutive fast-paced scenes
What is Action-Adventure
500
Film which uses the ocean, bridges, and the moon in its mis en scene
What is The Truman Show