All About that Vocab
What is the complication?
This is the point at which the complication reaches its maximum tension and the forces in opposition confront each other at the peak of physical or emotional action.
What is the climax?
This is the part of the story that introduces the characters, shows some of their interrelationships, and places them within a believable time and place.
What is the exposition?
Can be a literal element (like an object, name, or gesture) that also stands for an abstract idea.
What is a symbol?
The primary struggle in between different aspects of a single personality.
What is an internal conflict?
Minor character whose actions are completely predictable or typical
What are stock characters?
To go back in time during a film
What is a flashback?
"Two-dimensional," predictable characters
What are flat characters?
The creator references another work, person, event, or cultural element—often without directly naming it. The reference is usually brief and relies on the audience’s familiarity with the subject to add deeper meaning or context.
What is an allusion (alluding)?
Struggle between the central character and another character or between the central character and a nonhuman force (e.g. fate, society, nature).
What is an external conflict?
What was the first movie we watched in class?
What is Rio (2011)?
A literary, dramatic, and cinematic technique involving the juxtaposition or linking of opposites.
What is irony?
What was the name of the movie title that won our Movie Title Workshop vote?
Used to give hints or clues about events that will happen later in the story. It builds anticipation, creates suspense, and helps the audience make connections as the plot unfolds.
What is foreshadowing?
A story in which every object, event, and person has an immediately discernable abstract or metaphorical meaning.
What is an allegory?
Define dramatic foil.
When a character's traits (personality or physical) drastically contrast with another character's to emphasize the main character's (protagonist's) qualities.
Characters who remain the same throughout the film
What is a static character?
How is a motif different than a theme?
Repeatedly used throughout the film to highlight and aspect or variation of the film's theme.
List the 3 clips we watched during our Intro to Film Analysis activity
What are UP (2009), The Truman Show (1998), and Finding Nemo (2003).
Name 2 conventions of a movie title.
Any combination of the following:
- Brief
- Reflective of the film's theme
- Original and memorable
- Engaging language