Glossary

Genre

Action and Adventure Films
Adventure Films
Animated Films
B Films
Biographical Films
Blaxploitation Films
Caper Films
Cinéma Vérité
Comedy Films
Dectective and Mystery Films
Disaster Films
Documentary Films
Documentary Style Films
Epic Films
Erotic Films
Experimental Films
Fantasy Films
Feature Films (40 min or more)
Film Adaptations
Film Noir
Foreign Films
Frankenstein Films
Gangster Films
Historical Films
Horror Films
Melodrama
Musical Films
New Wave Films
Other
Police Films
Puppet Films
Religious Films
Romantic Comedy Films
Science Fiction Films
Screwball Comedy Films
Short Films (under 40 min)
Silent Films
Spy Films
Star Wars Films
Thrillers
War Films
Western Films

Narrative Structure

Analepsis (Flashback)
Chronological / Lineal
In Media Res
Prolepsis (Flashforward)

Framing

Aspect Ratio
Canted / Dutch Angle
Level Angle
Low Angle

Lighting

Backlighting
Eye light
High key
Kicker
Low key

Transitions

Cheat Cut
Crosscutting (Parallel Editing)
Dissolve
Fade-In
Fade-Out
Flip Frame
Form Cut
Inside/Out Editing (Cut Away)
Iris
Jump Cut
Outside/In Editing (Cut-In)
Shot/Reverse Shot
Superimposition
Wipe

Scale

Close-up
Extreme Close-up
Extreme Long Shot
Long Shot
Medium Close-up
Medium Long Shot

Quality

Color
Contrast
Deep Focus
Focus
Depth of Field
Exposure
Focus
Racking Focus
Focus
Rate
Shallow Focus
Focus
Telephoto
Focus
Zoom
Focus

Editing Style

Continuity Editing
Montage

Movement

Crane Shot
Handheld Camera (Steady Camera)
Pan
Tilt
Tracking Shot
Whip Pan

Sound Type

Diegetic
Musical Score
Non-Diegetic
Sonic Flashback
Sound Bridge

Point of View

Director's Interpretative
Indirect Subjective
Objective
Subjective

Expansion and Compression of Time

Elliptical Editing
Long Take (Plan-Sequence)
Overlapping Editing

Match

Eyeline
Graphic

Semester

Fall 2020
Fall 2021
Fall 2022
Fall 2023
Fall 2024
Fall 2025
Fall 2026
Spring 2020
Spring 2021
Spring 2022
Spring 2023
Spring 2024
Spring 2025
Spring 2026

Narrator Type

First Person
Reliable
Third Person
Unreliable

Setting

Location
Studio