Film Final

Visual Effects

Different types of mattes include paintings used to fill set areas that are too difficult or expensive to build or placed in screen areas by using a blue or green screen.

CGI

Stands for Computer Generated Imagery, created by applying chroma keying to digitally remove a color to replace it with computer-generated images.

3D Movie

Refers to a movie in three dimensions.

Screen Reality

Basic modes include physical, social, and psychological configurations of reality shown in cinema to persuade viewers of its validity.

Realism Types

Fictional, historical, documentary, and fictional documentaries differ from expressionism and fantasy in terms of realism.

Cinematic Self-Reflexivity

Includes formal self-reflexivity and narrative self-reflexivity modes in films.

Animation

2D animation occurs in a flat, two-dimensional space, while 3D animation moves in a three-dimensional environment.

Hollywood Studios

Major studios include Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Studios, Universal Pictures, and Columbia Pictures.

Stylistic Influence

Hollywood influenced world cinema through storytelling techniques, cinematic language, and genre films.

Product Placement

Involves product tie-ins and product placement in films.

Film Art Movement

Key features include avant-garde techniques and cross-cultural influences.

New German Cinema

Compared to German expressionism, it has somewhat darker themes similar to the French New Wave.

Film Criticism

Three basic modes include journalism-based, scholarly, and a third unidentified mode.

Film Criticism Stages

Identification, description, and interpretation are the three stages in the creation of film criticism.

Attributional Error

Fundamental attribution error refers to overestimating a person's personality and underestimating the situation they are in.

Film Theories

Realist, auterist, psychoanalytic, ideological, and feminist theories are different approaches to analyzing films.

Alternative Film Theories

Formalist, Marxist, structuralism, semiotic, and post-colonial theories offer different perspectives on film analysis.