Narrative Form
Mise-en-Scène
Cinematography
Editing
Sound
100

The plot of a film narrative in the classical Hollywood mode proceeds according to a chain of ______ and ______.

What is cause and effect?

100

This lighting scheme was established as the norm of Hollywood filmmaking during the studio era and involves a backlight, a key light, and a fill light.

What is three-point lighting?

100

This camera distance describes a shot that shows the subject from the knees upward.

What is a medium long shot?

100

This technique is a common method for editing dialogue scenes that show the speaking characters in separate shots.

What is shot/reverse shot?

100

This term describes any music that is used in a film to emphasize narrative events and guide the viewer's emotional response.

What is narrative music?

200

The entirety of a film's narrative, including events that are referred to but not depicted in the film itself.

What is story?

200

An image that is staged with one plane of action with no other planes visible can be described as a ________ ___________ composition.

What is a shallow space composition?

200

This cinematographic technique involves switching from one plane of focus to another in a single image.

What is racked/pulled focus?

200

An edit that cuts from a shot of a character looking to a shot of what the character is looking at is called a _______ _______.

What is an eyeline match?

200

This term describes a transition from one scene to another in which the diegetic sound from one overlaps into the other.

What is a sound bridge?

300

This describes a type of character motivation that originates psychologically, rather than in direct response to events or actions.

What is internal motivation?

300

This describes a prop that is used in the way that it was originally intended.

What is an instrumental prop?

300

This describes the mobile framing technique in the following shot.


What is a zoom in?

300

An edit that cuts from one shot to another that is similar in purely visual terms is called a _______ _____.

What is a graphic match?

300

This term describes the tone quality or "color" of sound.

What is timbre?

400

These two plot points comprise a film narrative's second turning point when that turning point is split into two distinct narrative events.

What are the dark moment and the new stimulus?

400

This term describes a use of color in which one particular color dominates.

What is a monochromatic color scheme?

400

___________ is a type of fast-motion cinematography that condenses long periods of time by filming at a very low frame-rate.

What is time-lapse cinematography?

400

This editing technique expands the duration of an action by depicting it sequentially from multiple vantage points.

What is overlapping editing?

400

Sound that exists within the story world of the film but whose source is not visible within the frame would be described as _________ and ___________.

What is diegetic; offscreen?

500

This describes the following narrative moment in terms of range and depth of narration.

What is restricted narration and mental subjectivity?

500

This describes the following image in terms of scene space (i.e., the amount of depth established in the image).


What is a deep space composition?

500

This describes the following image in terms of camera angle and camera level?

What is low-angle; Dutch/canted angle?

500

This discontinuity editing technique is on display in the following scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KUVwKp6MDI

What are jump cuts?

500

This term describes any use of sound in a film that forms an ironic juxtaposition with the onscreen image.

What is contrapuntal sound?