Narrative
The chain of events in chronological order.
What is the plot?
A patch of relative brightness on a surface.
What is a highlight?
The relationship of the frame's width to its height.
What is the aspect ratio?
Presents an action in such a way that it consumes less time on the screen that it does in the story.
What is elliptical editing?
Director of Pacific Rim and Pan's Labyrinth.
Who is Guillermo del Toro?
The viewer's imaginary construction of all the events in the narrative.
What is the story?
Portions of darkness.
What is shading?
In exhibition, stretches of black fabric that frame the theater screen. Can be adjusted according to the aspect ratio of the film to be projected.
What is masking?
Used to create a quick, regular rhythm and to compress a lengthy series of actions into a few moments.
What is a montage sequence?
Director of Fight Club.
Who is David Fincher?
The total world of the story action.
What is the film's diegesis?
The primary source, providing the brightest illumination and casting the strongest shadows. The most directional light, and it is usually suggested by a light source in the setting.
What is a key light?
The areas not shown inside the frame.
What is offscreen?
When you cut together two shots of the same subject, with the shots differing only slightly in angle and/or composition.
What is a jump cut?
Director of High Flying Bird.
Who is Steven Soderbergh?
Represented as being from outside of the world of the narrative.
What is non-diegetic?
An overall lighting design that uses fill light and backlight to create relativity low contrast between brighter and darker areas. Usually, the light quality is soft, making shadow areas fairly transparent.
What is high-key lighting?
The framing tipped to one side or the other.
What is canted?
A metaphorical or symbolic shot that doesn't belong to the space and time of the narrative.
What is a nondiegetic insert?
Director of Baby Driver.
Who is Edgar Wright?
Some specific agent who purports to be telling us the story.
Who is the narrator?
Extremely dark and light regions within the image.
What is chiaroscuro?
A shot of perceptual subjectivity.
What is a point-of-view (POV) shot?
A European filmmaking movement that often broke the rules of continuity editing.
What is French New Wave?
Director of The Conversation.
Who is Francis Ford Coppola?