History/Term/Camera Movement Review
These things were added to film to make it into movies. (Hint: this is when we moved from watching films about moving trains, etc. to actually making movies.)
A story with dialogue and acting
The person or thing that challenges or gets in the way of the protagonist called.
Antagonist
This camera angle has the character above the camera and allows the viewer to think of the character as more powerful.
Low angle
When a film uses only one color scheme for most of its colors, this is called _______chromatic.
Mono
This camera shot takes in all of the scene and allows the viewer to understand a lot of where and when the movie takes place.
Establishing shot
The term for when a large amount of information about history, characters or several different characters are compressed into a short amount of film. Usually there is only music and no dialogue in these.
Montage
Name at least two types of conflicts that characters often face.
Person vs. person
Person vs. Nature
Person vs. Self
Person vs. Society
**There are others too
This shot looks down on the characters and often makes them seem powerless (like an "eagle-eye" view).
High-angle shot
If a film (like some Superman films from the 1980's OR some "new wave" films from the 1960's) were to use the three primary colors, this would be called what in color theory?
Triadic
The shot that only features a body part--an eye, nose or ear perhaps.
Extreme close up
The character of Ferris Bueller looks at the camera several times in the film, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". When an actor looks directly at the audience, this is called what?
Breaking the Fourth Wall
The main character in the story is known by what name.
Protagonist
When a character is viewed from a neutral perspective and the camera is placed at what our eyes would be seeing if we were in the scene.
Eye-level shot
If there is one color that is routinely used for a character in a film or show (like Marie in "Breaking Bad" always wearing purple) then this is known as what type of color?
Associative
The camera shot that is most often used when two people are talking and the viewer seems them from the waist up.
Medium shot
What does a track camera movement allow the camera to do?
Follows the movement of a character.
Characters in Coming of Age films and stories often experience what types of lessons?
Learning more about their identity, sometimes losing who their heroes are (losing innocence), and become less self-centered.
What do we see in the camera shot that is called the "cowboy shot"?
The hip level of someone, and usually see them reach in their pockets for a weapon or a holster for a gun.
When filmmakers change from one set of colors (like from green for Walter White to black) this is known as what type of color change?
Transitional
The camera shot that allows the viewer to see what one character is seeing as we view another character or scene.
Over the shoulder shot
When a camera zooms, what does that mean?
The camera stays still, but moves in or out from a object or character.
What are the four common elements of a bildungsromans.
Loss, journey, personal growth through conflict and maturity.
What does the Dutch angle allow someone to communicate in a film?
Something unsettling, something is wrong
If a filmmaker uses a color that doesn't seem to "go" with the rest of the film or is all-of-a-sudden introduced (like the pink umbrella in Pleasantville in a sea of black and white) that is known as what type of color?
Color discordance