- Chapter One (Looking At Movies)
- The Implicit Meaning: The deep meaning of the movie, or the message that the director wants the viewers to get.
- The Explicit Meaning: The outside meaning of the movie that is clear and shown to the viewers.
- Chapter Two (Principles of Film Form)
- Plot, Attraction, Theme, Acting, Dialogue, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, Directing.
- Chapter Three (Types of Movies)
- Movie Type: What type the movie might be (Action, Mystery, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Horror, Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Romance, Biographical, Documentary, War, History, Western, Noir, Animation, and Science Fiction).
- Chapter Four (Elements of Narrative)
- Story Telling, Context.
- Chapter Five (Miss-en-scene)
- Setting: The place where the movie was taken.
- Prop: A project that the character carries.
- Lighting: The type of lighting that was used in the movie, if it’s dim or light.
- Costumes: The outfits that the characters wear.
- Makeup: The types of makeup that were used.
- Chapter Six (Cinematography)
- Close-Up: It’s a used technique to show the reactions on the character’s face in a close way.
- Extreme Close-Up: A very close technique to show the very close features.
- Extreme Long Shot: It’s a shot that covers a wider area.
- Dolly Shot: It is looking at the subject and walking toward or it could be also following along the subject.
- Crane Shot: It is a shot taken by a camera on a moving crane or jib.
- High-Angle Shot: It is a cinematic technique where the camera looks down.
- Low-Angle Shot: It is a shot from a camera angle position anywhere below the eye line.
- Medium Shot: It is called a waist shot, it is a camera angle shot from a medium distance.
- Point of View Shot: Seeing how the character is looking at a place or something.
- Diegetic Sound: Is a song or music that is in the world of a film.
- Non-Diegetic Sound: Is a song or music that is not in the world of a film.
- Side Lighting: A light that is from one side of the photography subject.
- Back lighting: A light that is from behind the photography subject.
- Chapter Seven (Acting)
- Characters: The actors who play roles in a movie.
- Performance: It is how professional a level of acting is.
- Chapter Eight (Editing)
- Continuity Editing: It is the process of combining more-or-less related shots.
- Discontinuity Editing: It is where the film doesn’t follow the conventional chronological order, the movie might use a flashback or when a film starts at the end or at the middle of things.
- Parallel Editing: It is a technique of alternating two or more scenes that often happen simultaneously but in different locations.
- Rhythm of Editing: It is when the relations between shots functions to control film pace.
- Match Cuts (Verbal/Visual): It cuts from one shot to a similar shot by either matching the action or the composition. It could be visual; like someone imagining an action in some place but then realizing he was back to real life. Or verbal; like someone screaming and then the director put the train sound similar to the screams sound.
- Shot/Reverse Shot: It is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character.
- Types of Transition:
- – Cut: An abrupt film transition from one sequence to another.
- – Fade in/out: A transition to and from a blank image.
- – Dissolve (overlapping): Gradual transition from one image to another.
- – Wipe: One shot replaces another by traveling from one side of the frame to another.
- – Iris: Circular masking closes the picture to a black screen.
- Chapter Nine (Sound)
- Music: The music that is made especially for the movie, like the “Godfather” music.
- Background: Different song, music that is used in the movie scenes.
- Sound Effect: The effects that the director uses to make the viewer get more in the movie world.
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