Migrants in Film Terms (Quiz 1)

Poster

A visual advertisement for a film, usually featuring images, the title, and other information to attract an audience.

Teaser Posters

Early promotional posters designed to create curiosity about a film, often revealing very little about the story.

Theatrical Posters

Posters used to promote a film when it is released in movie theaters, typically displaying the title, main actors, and release information.

Character Posters

Promotional posters focusing on one particular character or actor from a film.

Digital Thumbnails

Small images representing a film on digital platforms, such as streaming services or websites, designed to attract viewers

Cover Art / Front Cover

The image and design displayed on the front of a DVD, Blu-ray, or other film release package.

Back Cover

The back of a film's physical packaging, usually containing a synopsis, images, credits, technical information, and sometimes reviews.

Spine

The narrow side of a DVD or Blu-ray case, usually showing the film's title and sometimes its logo or studio name.

Keep Case

A reusable plastic container designed to hold and protect a DVD or Blu-ray disc, often with printed cover art.

Tragedy

A genre or type of story in which characters face serious suffering, conflict, loss, or misfortune, often ending unhappily.

Road movie

A film genre in which a journey, usually by road, drives the story and often leads to personal change or discovery.

Aerial shot

A shot filmed from high above the ground, often using a drone, helicopter, or aircraft, to show a location or landscape.

Low angle shot

A shot taken from below the subject, with the camera looking upward. It can make a character appear powerful, important, or intimidating.

Establishing shot

A shot, usually wide, that introduces the location, setting, or environment of a scene.

Re-establishing shot

A shot that returns to a wider view of a scene after closer shots, reminding the audience of the characters' positions and their surroundings.

Bird's eye view

A shot taken directly or almost directly from above, looking down on the subjects or setting.

Dutch angle (Dutch shot, Dutch tilt, or canted angle)

A shot in which the camera is tilted sideways, making the horizon appear slanted. It can suggest tension, instability, confusion, or disorientation.

Action!

A command given by a director or assistant director to tell the actors and crew to begin performing and recording a scene.

Actor / Actress

A person who performs a character in a film.

Background

The setting, scenery, objects, or people behind the main subjects of a shot. In film production, background performers are people who appear behind the main actors.

Blockbuster

A highly successful film, usually one that attracts a large audience and earns substantial box-office revenue. The term can also describe a film produced on a very large scale.

Close-up

A shot that tightly frames a subject, often a person's face, to emphasize emotions, expressions, or important details.

Credits

Text displayed at the beginning or end of a film that identifies the people and organizations involved in making and distributing it.

Credits

Text displayed at the beginning or end of a film that identifies the people and organizations involved in making and distributing it.

Extra

A performer who appears in the background of a scene, usually without speaking significant dialogue or playing a major role.

Cast / Casting

The group of actors who perform in a film and the process of selecting actors for the roles in a film.

To migrate

To move from one place to another, often across a region or international border, to live temporarily or permanently.

Migration

The process or movement of people from one place to another, either within a country or across international borders, for temporary or permanent residence.

Migrant

A general term for a person who moves away from their usual place of residence, within a country or across a border, for reasons such as work, family, education, safety, or other circumstances.

Immigrant

A person who moves into another country to live there.

Emigrant

A person who leaves their country of origin to live in another country. (general term)

Émigré

A person who has left their home country to live elsewhere, often because of political, social, or other difficult circumstances. The term is commonly associated with exile or a significant separation from one's homeland.

Expatriate (expat)

A person who lives outside their country of origin, often temporarily. The term is frequently used for people living abroad for work, education, or personal reasons. Usually from the “global north”.

Refugee

A person who is outside their country of nationality or habitual residence and cannot or will not return because of a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons such as race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. The term also has specific meanings under regional and international protection frameworks

Asylum-seeker

A person who has sought international protection in another country and whose claim for refugee status or other protection has not yet been finally decided.

Irregular migration

Movement into, out of, or through a country that does not comply with the immigration laws or administrative requirements of the countries concerned.

Clandestine migration

Migration carried out secretly or covertly, usually to avoid detection by authorities.

Illegal migration

A term used to describe migration that violates a country's immigration laws. It is often criticized because it can imply that the person, rather than their immigration status or conduct, is illegal.

Unauthorized migration

Migration or entry into a country without the required permission or authorization from the relevant authorities.

Undocumented migration

Migration in which a person lacks the required immigration documents, such as a valid visa or residence permit, or cannot provide documentation of their status.

Hijra (هِجْرَة)

Arabic term meaning migration, departure, or emigration. In Islamic history, it most famously refers to the Prophet Muhammad's migration from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE, an event that marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar.