The Art of Directing & Storytelling
The person in charge of a production and who makes sure a script comes to life (and is fully realized) on the stage or screen
What is a director?
The Oscar-nominated director of the Dark Knight and Memento
Who is Christopher Nolan?
A seven-point plot device that can be used to structure any story (incl. novels, films, TV, or theatre stories).
What is Freytag's Dramatic Structure (Freytag's Dramatic Pyramid / Triangle)?
This word describes the "intensity" of a color
What is saturation?
A scheme using pairs of colors that, when placed next to each other, create the strongest contrast for those two colors.
What is a complementary color scheme?
The most exciting point of a story, where the protagonist faces off against the antagonist
What is the Climax?
This Black female TV showrunner DOMINATED Thursday night primetime slots on ABC with hit shows like Grey's Anatomy and Scandal
Who is Shonda Rhimes?
The emotional and psychological narrative that can be told through the use of COLOR in film, TV, or theatre
What is color story?
This definition can be used to describe a MONOCHROMATIC color scheme.
What is a color scheme that uses colors of a single hue?
The color (on Plutchik's color wheel) that is typically used to indicate serenity, joy, ecstasy, trust, and optimism.
What is the color Yellow?
When a director demands that actors play a specific emotion, feeling, or expression
What is result-oriented directing?
This bombastic director started out shooting music videos before he became a blockbuster action movie director
Who is Michael Bay?
What are Color Story, Symbolism, Motif, Contrast, and Choreography?
The color scheme used to link a certain color to a specific person or idea
What is an associative color scheme?
The scheme created when you group three colors together that are next to each other on the color wheel
What is the Analogous color scheme?
The color scheme used to mark a character change or place change in a movie
What is a Transitional Color Scheme?
This little known action director brought the martial arts talents of Indonesian actor, Iko Uwais, to the United States' Hollywood scene
Who is Gareth Evans?
The "new normal" in any story. (You must pronounce this CORRECTLY to get the full points!)
What is the denouement?
A color scheme that uses colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel
What is a Triadic Color Scheme (or Triadic Color Harmony)?
The color (on Plutchik's color wheel) that is typically used to indicate boredom, disgust, loathing, sadness, and remorse.
What is the color Purple?
Name, IN ORDER, the seven points of plot structure that can be used to build story across any medium (film, TV, or theatre)
What is Exposition, Inciting Incident, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution, and Denouement?
This infamous director duo's first written film was "Assassins" starring Antonio Banderas and Sylvester Stallone
Who are The Wachowski Brothers (now known as the Wachowski Sisters)?
These two images are used at the beginning and ends of a story and usually serve as high points of contrast
What are the Opening Image and the Closing Image?
Name a film wherein the color ORANGE is consistently associated with death.
What is "The Godfather"?
NEOPHYTE BONUS: This color scheme uses colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel, but uses FOUR colors together, in the form of TWO sets of complementary colors.
What is a Tetradic Color Scheme?