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The total system that the viewer perceives the film.

Categories of films based on themes, styles, or audience preferences.

The sequence of events that make up the story of a film.

The arrangement of visual elements in a film, including sets, costumes, lighting, and composition.

The art of capturing and manipulating images on film, including camera angles, shots, and lighting.

The process of selecting and combining shots to create a coherent sequence in a film.

An object or element in a film that drives the plot but is ultimately of little importance to the overall narrative.

Sound that occurs within the world of the film.

Sound that occurs outside the world of the film.

The person responsible for creating and manipulating sound elements in a film.

A style of filmmaking that aims to depict real-life situations and characters.

A style of filmmaking that emphasizes the visual and technical aspects of filmmaking over narrative or content.

A film theory that focuses on the director as the main creative force in a film.

The effect created when shots are combined to create a larger meaning or idea.

The overall content and structure of a film, including events, characters, and settings.

The arrangement of events within a story, including the introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

The omission of unnecessary or unimportant parts of a film's narrative.

An actor who makes a brief appearance in a film.

The main actor or actress in a film.

An actor who is not trained or experienced in acting.

A shot that establishes the setting or location of a scene.

A shot that captures a wide view of a scene or subject.

A shot that captures a subject from the waist up.

A shot that captures a subject's face or a specific detail.

A shot that captures a subject's face or a specific detail in extreme detail.

The visual and auditory techniques used in filmmaking to convey meaning and evoke emotions.

A motion picture that tells a story through a series of moving images.

A transition effect that suggests the passage of time or a shift to a new scene.

A shot that is taken from a low position, looking up at a subject, often used to portray the subject as strong or threatening.

A cut that allows for a smooth transition between shots by cutting while a character is in motion.

A noticeable and often jarring edit that is meant to be noticed by the audience.

The central character of a narrative who drives the story forward.

The open and easily understood narrative of a film.

The underlying meaning or subtext of a film that lies beneath the surface narrative.

An analysis that examines the artistic elements of a film, such as cinematography, editing, and sound.

How the content of a film is expressed through its artistic elements.

The subject or topic of a film.

An analysis that explores the social, political, and ideological aspects of a film.

Technology that allows communication with a mass audience.

Repetitive visual or narrative elements in a film that create a sense of familiarity or surprise for the audience.

The technique of showing shots in succession to create the illusion of simultaneous events.

The fundamental elements of movies, including the use of light, the illusion of movement, and the manipulation of space and time.

A stereotypical Hollywood protagonist who is fiercely individualistic, goal-oriented, and faces challenges and antagonists.

He used Polaroid photographs, notes, tattoos, mottos, maps, and police files to make sense of his life and maintain his direction and purpose.

The audience is interested in solving the mystery of his wife's rape and murder, familiar with revenge as a common plot element, and put in a state of ignorance and confusion similar to Leonard's condition.

Trying to make sense of patterns, piece scenes together, determine who to trust, and understand the relevance of certain elements in the narrative.

Narrative, Documentary, and Experimental.

A movie that focuses on fictional narratives, ranging from pure imagination to recognizable settings or time periods.

A non-fiction or narrative-based movie that explores histories, memoirs, and biographies.

A movie that defies conventions of fictional narrative and documentary filmmaking, often non-commercial, highly personal, and open to interpretation.

Important forms of filmmaking that can be fictional narratives, used to illustrate documentary material, or part of experimental films.

Public service announcements, educational and instructional films, public relations films, and advertisements.

Types of film used to categorize movies based on story formulas, themes, character types, settings, presentation, stars, and iconography.

Gangster, Film Noir, Science Fiction, Horror, Western, and Musicals.

Establishes a normal world threatened by the arrival of the other, with the goal of vanquishing the monster to restore normalcy.

Inspired by American history, set in the Wild West, and explores themes of opportunity, danger, and the clash between civilization and lawlessness.

Revenge, shootouts, Indian raids, cattle drives, and the push of civilization to the frontier.

Between 1836-1900, especially 1865-1900.

Marshal, sheriff, bad man, cowboy, Indian chief, rancher, etc.

Civilization vs. wilderness, order vs. lawlessness, settling frontier, code of honor, revenge, etc.

Treatment of landscape, action sequences, and expert horsemanship.

Long shots and extreme long shots to showcase the scenery and location.

The cinematic structure that arranges events in a cause-and-effect sequence occurring over time.

A film narrative that displays little to no causality between events.

The person or entity that tells the story, either as a first-person or third-person narrator.

A character who imparts information through voice-over narration.

A narrator outside of the narrative who tells the story, either omniscient or limited to a participant's perspective.

When a character addresses the audience directly.

Limits the information provided to the audience to what is known by a single character, often with a non-chronological structure and unreliable narrator.

Possesses numerous traits that can change over the course of the story.

Relatively uncomplicated, exhibits few distinct traits, and does not significantly change.

Characters like Lady Bird, Leonard, and Wyatt who possess complex traits and motivations.

The person, group, or forces that obstruct the protagonist's goals.

Ex-marshall of Dodge City known for cleaning up a notorious Wild West town.

Legendary bank robber who relies on wits rather than guns, with a long-standing partnership with Buddy.

Implies a pattern and suggests higher importance in the plot.

An image periodically repeated in a movie to stabilize the narrative and create continuity.

Story duration, plot duration, and screen duration, each representing different aspects of time in a movie.

The process of determining the look of the setting, props, lighting,

The range of distance in a shot where objects appear in focus.

The level of the height of the camera in relation to the subject being photographed.

A shot taken from the observer's eye level.

The horizontal movement of a camera mounted on a gyroscopic head of a stationary tripod.

The vertical movement of a camera mounted on a gyroscopic head of a stationary tripod.

A shot taken from a camera fixed to a wheeled support, generally known as a dolly.

When a camera is used to dolly in on a person or object.

A type of shot that moves horizontally along with the action using a dolly or other vehicle.

A type of roaming shot that is somewhat shaky because it is hand-held.

A tracking shot taken with a sophisticated piece of equipment that keeps the image smooth and steady, giving the impression of gliding.

A shot that is accomplished through the magnification of a zoom lens to zero in on a person or object.

A shot taken from an elevating arm that is mounted on a vehicle and able to move on its own.

Screen duration is shorter than plot duration, conveying a long period of time in a short period of time.

Screen duration that corresponds directly to plot duration, suggesting and depicting the period of time in an equivalent manner.

Screen duration is longer than plot duration, conveying a short period of time in a long (or longer) period of time.

Technique refers to the cutting and joining of shots, craft is the ability to produce a meaningful whole, and art takes the combination of shots to the next level, evoking excitement, insight, shock, or epiphany.

The meaning of an actor's neutral face can change depending on the images it is edited with.

Spatial relationships between shots, temporal relationships between shots, and the overall rhythm of the film.

Creating a sense of space in the viewer's perception.

Manipulating the presentation of plot time on-screen, such as through flashbacks, flash-forwards, and ellipsis.

Ensuring that what happens on screen makes narrative sense, maintaining consistent screen direction, and preserving graphic, spatial, and temporal relations between shots.