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Narrative Structure
Mise en Scene
Cinematography
Editing
Sound and Music
100
This is a fully developed, complex character with many different traits.
What is a round character?
100
This style of acting requires the actor to "live" the role to be able to understand it.
What is Method acting?
100
A director may use this angle to show a character that is slightly off-balance or out of sorts.
What is a Dutch/oblique/canted angle?
100
In this type of editing, shots are arranged thematically as opposed to simply chronologically.
What is montage editing?
100
This refers to the process of combining dialogue, music, and sound FX.
What is mixing?
200
This term (syuzhet in Russian) refers to the events in the order as they are presented onscreen.
What is plot?
200
This type of movement or compositional pattern draws the viewer's eye more readily.
What is diagonal movement?
200
In this type of shot, the background/setting completely overwhelms the actors on screen, who may not even be visible.
What is an extreme long shot?
200
This style of editing can show simultaneous events in different locations, subsequently expanding our sense of time.
What is parallel editing or cross-cutting?
200
This is really cheesy, obvious dialogue.
What is on-the-nose dialogue?
300
This refers to everything in a film that the actors onscreen would not be aware of, such as the soundtrack.
What is non-diegetic or extra-diegetic?
300
This is a compositional arrangement that allows the subjects in the frame plenty of room for movement.
What is loose framing?
300
To film a car chase, the director may choose to mount the camera on a helicopter, giving us this type of camera movement.
What is an aerial shot?
300
This editing principle states the camera should stay to one side of an invisible axis in a scene.
What is the 180 degree rule?
300
This is the first feature-length "talking picture."
What is The Jazz Singer?
400
This is revealing character through actions, dialogue, or reactions from other characters, not from telling the viewer about the character.
What is indirect characterization?
400
Key, fill, and backlighting work together to make this, a usually flattering lighting setup for film.
What is three-point lighting?
400
This type of lens allows the cinematographer to "rack" the focus from one visual plane to another.
What is a telephoto lens?
400
This principle states that the meaning of a shot relies on the preceding and succeeding shots.
What is the Kuleshov Effect?
400
This is sound that overlaps into the next scene, which takes place in an entirely different location.
What is a sound bridge?
500
This is the order of a traditional plot structure.
What is the exposition, complications, climax, and resolution?
500
This refers to a style that has high contrast between light and dark elements, commonly found in film noir.
What is chiaroscuro?
500
This type of photography allows all depths of field to remain in focus and tends to exaggerate depth.
What is deep focus photography?
500
This editing principle states that the camera should follow the subject's gaze and shots should match the angle of his or her vision.
What is an eyeline match?
500
This refers to a sound that has a direct correlation to an event or dialogue onscreen.
What is synchronous sound?