Mise-en-Scène
This is when acting is more directed towards telling a story and driving conflict.
What is an appeal to plot?
A camera movement along a horizontal axis.
What is a pan?
This is the most basic editing technique.
What is a cut?
This is noise which has its source within the world of the film.
What is diegetic sound?
This is a recurring growth and decline of popularity for certain varieties of movies as audience interest spikes and wanes.
What is a genre cycle?
These are the two types of make-up in film.
What is naturalistic or expressive?
This shot type - usually outside - helps to set the scene, sometimes from a distance of a quarter mile.
What is an establishing shot?
This is an editing technique using a black circle closing on a single point - originally from older manual closing of the camera's aperture.
What is an iris?
This is sound created by instruments and sometimes vocals specifically for a film, oft being non-diegetic.
What is score?
These other varieties of media inspired and laid the basis for many early genres of film.
What are plays and literature?
This is when props are used to imitate a location for filming purposes.
What is a set?
These are the two distinct categories of camera work.
What is shot type and camera movement?
This is a series of seemingly unrelated images put together to create meaning, using the Kuleshov Effect.
This is a process used to create more immersive, noticeable sound for a film, in a studio where everything is a prop.
What is the Foley Process?
These are images and people who are recurring between films of the same genre.
What is iconography?
These are less intense lights, used in film to soften and eliminate shadows.
What are fill lights?
This term was originally the brand name for a certain camera device, but has since become generalized.
What is Steadicam?
This is editing in order to present action in such a way that it consumes less screen time than story.
What is elliptical editing?
This is a collection of background noises and sounds which reinforce the realism and immersion of a scene.
What is soundscape / atmosphere?
These are the three primary types of musicals.
What are straight, backstage, and children's musicals?
This was the original purpose of the term ‘Mise-en-Scène’ in French.
What is describing the practice of directing plays?
This is the sequence of transition between different types of shots.
What is shot progression?
These are the four types of relationships between any given Shot A and Shot B.
What are graphic, rhythmic, spatial, and temporal relations?
A recording of the ambient sound at the location of a shoot.
What is room tone?
This is a character archetype prominent in westerns, often torn between the order of civilization and the lawlessness of wilderness.
What is a "good-bad man"?