Film Studies

Front 1

Unifying central concern of the film

Back 1

Theme

Front 2

First part of the story, introduces characters

Back 2

Expostion

Front 3

story begins in the middle of things

Back 3

In Media Res

Front 4

Personal struggle between central character and another character

Back 4

External Conflict

Front 5

Psychological conflict within the central character

Back 5

Internal Conflict

Front 6

undergoes important change in personality, attitude, or outlook as a result of action in the film

Back 6

Developing Character

Front 7

remains essentialy the same throughout the film

Back 7

Static Character

Front 8

2-dimensional predictable character, lacks complexity

Back 8

Flat Character

Front 9

unique, individualistic characters who are more complex

Back 9

Round Character

Front 10

A story in which every object, event, and person has an abstract meaning

Back 10

Allegory

Front 11

Something that stands for something else

Back 11

Symbol

Front 12

Has no place within the context of the scene itself but is imposed artificially by the film maker

Back 12

Extrinsic metaphor

Front 13

emerge directly from context of scene and is more natural and subtle

Back 13

Intrisic metaphor

Front 14

most of set in shadow

Back 14

Low-key lighting

Front 15

more light than shadow

Back 15

High-key lighting

Front 16

camera as sideline observer

Back 16

Objective POV

Front 17

Camera as participant

Back 17

Subjective POV

Front 18

brings us close to the action so we feel involved

Back 18

Indirect-Subjective POV

Front 19

when we are supposed to see the action in an unusual way

Back 19

Director's POV

Front 20

moving the camera's line of sight in a horizontal plane

Back 20

Panning

Front 21

moving the camera's line of sight in a vertical plane

Back 21

Tilting

Front 22

one continous shot focusing the camera lens on objects in different planes of depth

Back 22

Rack focus

Front 23

use of special lenses that allow the camera to focus on objects 2 ft. away and several hundred feet away

Back 23

Deep focus

Front 24

when the camera is placed below eye-level, makes it look bigger

Back 24

Low-angle shot

Front 25

Camera placed above eye-level

Back 25

High-angle shot

Front 26

distance between object in foreground and one in background seems much greater that it actually is

Back 26

Wide-angle lens

Front 27

at beginning to provide broad picture of the setting

Back 27

Establishing shot

Front 28

alternating quickly between two actions taking place at two locations

Back 28

Parallel cuts

Front 29

series of images and sounds that form a visual poem

Back 29

Montage

Front 30

Dramatic technique dealing with subconsionce and look non-realistic

Back 30

Surrealism