People
Directed by Jordan Peele, live-action feature, narrative fiction, & horror
Get Out
Stretches out an action, having characters talk over one another (creates a feeling of chaos)
Overlapping Dialogue
Directed by Christopher Nolan, live-action feature, narrative fiction & neo-noir, crime
Wally Pfister was the cinematographer, Dody Dorn was the Editor, and Patti Podesta was the Production Designer
Memento
Composition type where a “larger world exists beyond the screen,” the scene is simply a window into a small part of a whole
Open-Frame
First name "Lev" had an effect named after his last name, where the director wants the audience's perception of an actor's performance to be based on the context of the shots placed around the action (scene)
Lev Kuleshov
1:37:1 is the new rectangular format of major motion pictures, allowing image and sound to both fit onto film strips
(1930s-1950s estimated lifespan)
Academy Ratio
Composition type where everything you need to know in a scene is within the camera's framing, limited outside world understanding
Closed Frame
How to Train Your Dragon: The film uses the relationship between Hiccup and his father, Stoick the Vast, to explore themes of inherited legacy and mending broken relationships
Description
Directed by Chris Smith, produced by Sarah Price, documentary style, no screenwriter is credited, Barry Poltermann and Jun Diaz edited, and no production designer is credited.
(Smallest staff of all featured films)
American Movie
Type of lighting style with a brightly lit frame (soft lighting, minimal shadows, & low contrast). In film, this lighting style uses minimal shadows, with the majority of the frame filled with highlights.
High Key Lighting
The Notebook: For Allie to go on a date with him, Noah hangs from a moving Ferris wheel and refuses to get down until she says yes.
Observation
A silent film movement from 1919 to 1926, full of distorted sets, dramatic lighting, and exaggerated acting to reflect the inner psychological states of characters, emerging in post-WWI Germany
German Expressionism
Directed by Wong Kar-wai and Christopher Doyle, live-action feature, narrative fiction, & romance-comedy
Chungking Express