Depth of field: How much of the frame from camera to infinity is in focus. Narrow focus has a short depth of field, deep focus has a great depth of filed. Used to focus or defocus attention
Diegesis: the word of the film. Background music is non-diegetic
Direct address: a performer talking directly to the audience
Genre rules: rules of specific genres which the audience accepts for that genre
Hermeneutics: techniques to decode a text
Intertextuality: referring to another work of art with some significant meaning to the film
Motif: a repeated element
Non linear: non chronological narrative
POV shot: Point of view shot: A shot through a characters eyes
Reflexivity: looking at itself. Usually when films look at films and film making
Sartorial code: coding information in clothing
Scopophila: Desire to look or see something
Set Pieces: scenes which are specularize to fulfill audience’s scopophilia, Often important for the genre
Sign: something which represents something else in a non-arbitrary way
Specularize: to make something large or important
Sub text: the underlying meaning of a story
Suspension of disbelief: The idea that the audience will acceptthings in a film they normally reject as possible
Symbol: something which represents something else arbitrarily. (compare sign)
Trope: a device not used in its literal sense. (e.g. as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche,