Basic Terms:
AUTEUR – French for “author”
DIEGESIS – The diegesis includes objects, events, spaces and the characters that inhabit them, including things, actions, and attitudes not explicitly presented in the film but inferred by the audience.
EDITING – The joining together of clips of film into a single filmstrip.
FLASHBACK FLASHFORWARD – A jump backwards or forwards in diegetic time.
FOCUS – Focus refers to the degree to which light rays coming from any particular part of an object pass through the lens and reconverge at the same point on a frame of the film negative, creating sharp outlines and distinct textures that match the original object.
GENRES – Types of film recognized by audiences and/or producers, sometimes retrospectively. These types are distinguished by narrative or stylistic conventions, or merely by their discursive organization in influential criticism.
MISE-EN-SCENE – All the things that are “put in the scene”: the setting, the decor, the lighting, the costumes, the performance etc. Narrative films often manipulate the elements of mise-en-scene, such as decor, costume, and acting to intensify or undermine the ostensible significance of a particular scene.
STORY / PLOT – Perhaps more correctly labelled fabula and syuzhet, story refers to all the audience infers about the events that occur in the diegesis on the basis of what they are shown by the plot.
SCENE / SEQUENCE – A scene is a segment of a narrative film that usually takes place in a single time and place, often with the same characters. Sometimes a single scene may contain two lines of action, occurring in different spaces or even different times, that are related by means of crosscutting.
SHOT – A single stream of images, uninterrupted by editing.
Mise-en-scene:
- Decor – rear projection.
- Lighting – three point lighting, high- key lighting, low- key lighting.
- Space- Deep space, Frontality, Matte shot, offscreen space, shallow space,
- Costume
- Acting- Typage
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