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Film Studio

A company that makes films and provides props, costumes, and editing.

Stages of Film Production

Script development, pre-production, filming, editing, post-production, distribution, and exhibition.

Role of an Exhibitor in Film Distribution

An exhibitor gets films to audiences, including movie theaters, streaming services, and rental companies.

One Reeler

A movie made quickly that lasts about 10-16 minutes on one reel of film.

Patent Wars in the Film Industry

Legal battles over patents where filmmakers were sued multiple times to maintain control over film making.

Serial in Film

A feature-length movie broken into one-reel segments shown weekly in theaters.

Close-Up Shot

A shot that cuts to a character's face at a moment of high drama.

Insert Shot

A close-up of a specific detail in a scene, often used to emphasize a key point.

Director of 'Metropolis'

Fritz Lang.

'Nosferatu'

It is a 1922 film about a vampire that brings plague to a town, known for its lighting, staging, special effects, and makeup.

Flashback in Storytelling

A plot device that provides important backstory or context for the primary story.

D.W. Griffith

An innovator and brilliant filmmaker known for techniques like close-ups and cross-cutting, and for making 'Birth of a Nation.'

German Expressionism in Film

A movement that rejected cinematic realism, using visual distortions and hyper-expressive performances.

Unreliable Narrator

A storyteller whose credibility is compromised, forcing readers to question their version of events.

Mise-en-scène

Everything needed in a movie to make it as real as possible, including sets, props, costumes, actors, and lighting.

Innovation by Karl Freund

The unchained camera, allowing filmmakers to get shots from cameras in motion.

Themes in 'Glass Menagerie'

Self-deception, illusion, the contrast between the Old South and industrial society.

Significance of Setting in 'Glass Menagerie'

It reflects Williams' own life, depicting a cramped apartment in a lower-class part of St. Louis.

Narrative Style of Early Films

A 'cinema of attractions' that focused on the novelty of moving pictures rather than storytelling.

Father of Film Language

Edwin S. Porter, known for creating more sophisticated film techniques.

Parallel Action or Cross-Cutting in Film

A technique that cuts back and forth between two simultaneous shots to tell a story.

Kuleshov Effect

Viewers draw more meaning from two shots cut together than one shot on its own.

Creative Geography

Cutting two different locations together to make them seem like one (like outside of a building and a different inside).

Soviet Montage

'Assembling' films develop their meaning from the way they are shot and cut together. (order, duration, repetition, rhythm)

Intellectual Montage

Combine two unrelated images to form a third image in your mind. (A face juxtaposed with a bowl of soup = hunger)

Tonal Montage

Editing shots based on their emotional or thematic tone, aiming to evoke a specific feeling.

Metric Montage

Editing shots together based on a fixed number of frames, creating a visual rhythm that is independent of the content of the shots themselves.

Rhythmic Montage

The cuts are matched to music, sound effects, or action.

Overtonal Montage

The combination of metric, rhythmic, and tonal montage.

Propaganda

Biased or misleading communication designed to promote a particular point of view.

Latham Loop

a film mechanism that uses 2 loops of film, one on each side of the projector or camera’s intermittent movement, to isolate the filmstrip from vibration and tension