- Auteur- french word for author
- Diegesis- objects, events, spaces and the characters that inhabit them including things inferred by the audience
- Editing- joining together of clips of film into a single filmstrip
- Flashback/forward- events of plot no longer match order of story
- Focus- degree to which light rays pass through the lens
- Genres- types of film
- Mise-en-Scene- all the things put in the scene, used to intensify or undermine the significance of a particular scene
- story/plot- what the audience infers on the basis of what they are shown
- Scene/Sequence- segment of narrative film
- Shot- single stream of images
- Mise-en-Scene – representation of space affects the reading of a film
- Decor- objects contained in and setting of a scene. can be used to amplify aspects
- Rear Projection- used to portray a setting without having to be there
- Lighting- profound effect on the way an image is perceived
- 3-point, High key, low-key
- Space- determine mood or relationships between elements in the diegetic world
- deep space
- Frontality- face the camera square on
- Matte shot- combination of two photographic images
- Offscreen space
- Shallow Space- Very little depth
- Costume- Clothes a character wears
- Acting
- Typage- selection of actors based on their facial or bodily features
- Editing
- Devices
- transitions
- cheat cut- mismatches position of figures or objects in scene
- cross cutting/parallel editing- alternates shots of two or more lines of action
- Cut-in/Cut-away
- dissolve-transition between two shots, first image gradually disappears
- Iris- a round moving mask
- Establishing / reestablishing shot- shows spatial relations
- shot/reverse shot- two or more shots edited together that alternate characters
- Superimposition- exposure of more than one image on the same film strip
- wipe- transition
- matches- techniques that join as well as divide two shots through a connection
- eyeline match- cut follows view of character
- graphic match
- duration
- long take
- overlapping editing- repeat part or all of an action and rhythm
- styles of editing- patterned use of transitions, matches and duration
- continuity- maintain continuous and clear narrative action
- elliptical- transitions that omit parts of an event