📚 ECAS 10 – Lesson 3: From Script to Screen Flashcards

What is the spoken exchange that reveals personality, advances the plot, and expresses the theme?

Dialogue

What is the visual aspect of a performance, including costumes, lighting, movement, and staging?

Spectacle

What includes songs, incidental music, and rhythm that deepen mood and meaning?

Music

What reveals character traits and relationships?

Effective dialogue

What moves the story forward by introducing events or conflicts?

Plot advancement

What refers to the meaning carried by words left unsaid in East Asian literature?

Implicit dialogue

What blends dialogue with narration and repetition for emphasis?

Oral tradition

What often uses fragmented or stream-of-consciousness voices?

Modernist writing

What is the pattern of similar sounds, usually at the end of lines?

Rhyme

What is the rhythm created by stressed and unstressed syllables?

Meter

What is the repetition of beginning consonant sounds?

Alliteration

What is the repetition of vowel sounds?

Assonance

What is the repetition of consonant sounds within nearby words?

Consonance

What are words that imitate natural sounds?

Onomatopoeia

What is a meter commonly used in Shakespeare's plays?

Iambic pentameter

What is written in the present tense and includes only what can be seen or heard?

Film script

What identifies the place and time of a scene?

Scene heading

What tells what the audience sees and hears?

Action/Description

What identifies who is speaking?

Character names

What contains the words spoken by the characters?

Dialogue

What shows how one scene connects to another?

Transitions

What changes internal thoughts into visible actions or spoken clues?

Adapting literature

What includes costumes, lighting, movement, and staging?

Spectacle

What communicates personality through speech?

Dialogue

What strengthens emotion and meaning through sound?

Music

What compares ideas using symbolic images or visual parallels?

Visual metaphor and simile

What makes nonhuman things appear alive through animation, camera movement, or sound?

Personification

What uses dialect, sociolect, or technical language to reveal background?

Diction in dialogue

What creates new meaning by combining different images?

Montage

What uses high, low, close-up, and wide shots to create effects?

Camera angles

What uses natural light, shadows, and color to create mood?

Lighting

What do warm colors usually represent?

Comfort

What do cool colors usually represent?

Tension or sadness

What adds emotion and realism to scenes?

Sound and music

What is the speed of scenes that affects audience emotion?

Pacing

What shows the location and setting?

Establishing shot

What frames characters from the waist up?

Medium shot

What emphasizes emotions or important details?

Close-up shot

What shows exactly what a character sees?

Point-of-view shot

What shows one character looking at another?

Over-the-shoulder shot

What is the stage where planning and scriptwriting happen?

Pre-production

What is the stage where scenes are filmed?

Production

What is the stage where music, sound effects, and transitions are added?

Post-production

What is the stage where the finished film is shared with the audience?

Final output (Publishing)

What means choosing the best takes and cutting between angles?

Editing

What means adding title cards, music, and sound effects?

Editing basics

What includes props, costumes, lighting, and everything inside the frame?

Mise-en-scène

What refers to camera angles, movement, and framing?

Cinematography

What is the way shots are assembled to create meaning?

Editing

What includes music, sound effects, and ambient sound?

Sound design