Techniques
A film with no dialogue.
What is a Silent Film?
The moment of highest tension that often determines the outcome of the narrative.
What is the Climax?
Uses cuts based on the action or context of the image in a shot.
What is Rythmic Montage?
The longest act in a film.
What is the 2nd Act?
A poor guy with balloon pants befriends a comic living in a lamp.
What is "Aladdin"?
This divides the frame into 9 equal parts to help with composition.
What is the Rule of Thirds?
The first time we see our protagonist.
What is Character Introduction?
An amalgamation of the four other types of montages: Intellectual, Metric, Rhythmic and Tonal.
What is Overtonal Montage?
The overall goal that a character wants to achieve.
What is Objective?
A toy cowboy tries to unalive an astronaut for the love and attention of a child.
What is "Toy Story"?
This keeps the elements used in the scene even in the frame.
What is Symmetry?
A choice between bad and bad.
What is a Dilemma?
What is the Kuleshov Effect?
The way the character changes in the movie through the hero's journey. Involves personal struggles and internal conflict.
What is the Character's Arc?
A cranky old guy loses his wife and learns to cope with it by finding a young new friend who forces him to adopt a dog.
What is "Up"?
Narration used to move the story forward.
What is Voice Over?
The final stage of the narrative where all loose ends are tied up.
What is the Resolution?
Helps to establish the tone of a scene through editing shots together that have the same thematic aim.
What is Tonal Montage?
The thing that gets in the way of the character's objective?
What is an Obstacle?
Two monsters have to hide a child.
What is "Monsters Inc."?
This is when a film explains exactly what's happening.
What is Exposition?
(Do NOT ever do this, PLS!)
The number of points that we use to graph our stories.
What is 7 (or the 7 Part Narrative Structure)?
Edits together different shots by following to an exact measurement or number of frames.
What is Metric Montage?
What a character says vs what they are trying to actually say.
What is Subtext?
Apparently not all cats always land on their feet. Now a child has to become King.
What is "The Lion King"?