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Mise-en-scène - ANS ✔✔Overall look and feel of movie. Sum of everything the audience sees,
hears and experiences

Sound - ANS ✔✔Transmitted vibrations received by the ear and thus heard by the recipient

Narrative - ANS ✔✔A cinematic structure in which content is selected and arranged in a cause
and effect sequence of events occurring over time

Form - ANS ✔✔The means by which a subject is expressed

Content - ANS ✔✔The subject of an artwork

MacGuffin - ANS ✔✔A pointless object in a movie that has no meaning

Chiaroscuro - ANS ✔✔The use of deep gradations and subtle variations of light and darks within
an image

Parallel editing aka cross cutting aka intercutting - ANS ✔✔Intercutting of two or more lines of
action that occurs simultaneously

Freeze frame aka stop/hold frame - ANS ✔✔Still image within a movie created by repetitive
printing in the Laboratory of some frame

Scene - ANS ✔✔A complete unit of plot action incorporating one or more shots

Bullet time - ANS ✔✔Detaching time and space from camera (Matrix)

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