Eras of Film
These storefront televisions were common places to watch movies in the early twentieth century.
What are nickelodeons?
This context domain tells us important information about who made the art.
What is identity?
This person makes all or most of the creative decisions surrounding a film from start to finish.
Who is the director?
These people coordinate the shots and sequences during filming.
Who is the camera team?
This person was the first to try recording films with synchronized sound.
During this age, major film companies sought to maximize output by dividing up the roles of director, screenwriter, camera technician, and others.
What is the Golden Age?
This context domain tells us about the region of the world that the art comes from.
What is location?
This person writes the script for a movie.
Who is the screenwriter?
These people decide what characters will wear in a movie.
Who are the costume designers?
This technique, commonly used with animation, involves writing music that matches up exactly with visual events on the screen.
What is Mickey Mousing?
This term, which comes from a word meaning "to love", describes people with no formal training who gained access to filmmaking in the Pre-Modern Era.
What is an amateur?
This context domain tells us what it might have been like to live around the time the art was published.
What is time period?
These people portray the characters in a film.
Who are actors?
These people choose objects, locations, and visual moods for each scene.
Who are the set designers?
This style of music features sweeping melodies and lush, full harmonies – and was the main style used in films during Hollywood's Golden Age.
What is Romanticism?
This popular expression is actually a term for the standardization of music that played along with certain scenes in the days of silent film.
What is a cliché?
This context domain tells us a possible reason for the author's having made an art.
What is occasion?
This person writes the musical score for a movie.
Who is the composer?
This person keeps track of all the objects used at any given moment during the film.
Who is the propmaster?
This computerized instrument's invention in the 1960s revolutionized the way composers wrote for science fiction films and special effects.
What is a synthesizer?
This development in film technology allowed audiences to watch films in their homes at any time, so long as they owned the right device to play them.
This context domain tells us what trends or sources the artist might have drawn from to make their art.
What is inspiration?
This person's job is to ensure that all moving parts of the production happen at the right places and times.
Who is the producer?
This is another title for the head lighting designer of a film.
Who is the gaffer?
This technique blends classical music with popular music to create films that are both emotional and marketable.
What is compilation?