moonlight: a persons upbringing can become a big part of there personality. as Chiron never had a father and his mother was aggressive and an addict this changes chirone life and his personality later in his life.

Joker. This film shows that people who are victims of violence and bulling can become bullies and violent people if they don’t get the help they need both mentally and physically.

unreliable narrator. a narrator who misleads readers Deliberately or unwillingly

Backstory: a story that tells what led up to the main story or plot  

flashback: a narrative technique of interrupting the story or plot to interject events of earlier occurrence. The earlier events often take the form of a memory

non linear narrative: any narrative that doesn’t follow a traditional, chronological order from beginning to end. Non-linear stories can employ techniques like flashbacks, flash-forwards, multiple points of view, or a non-sequential structure that rearranges the order of events.

ellipsis: movement and action unnecessary to the telling of a story will often be removed by editing.

framing device: a narrative technique in which a story is surrounded by a secondary story, creating a story within a story, often through Separate Scene Storytelling. The inner story is usually the bulk of the work.

Cliff-hanger: a dramatic and exciting ending to an episode of a serial, leaving the audience in suspense and anxious not to miss the next episode.

McGuffin: An object or device in a film or a book which serves merely as a trigger for the plot.

foreshadowing: hinting about what is to come during later events. It creates expectations about how things might play out

alignment: The way in which we are oriented towards the characters in a narrative in terms of information

causality: when one even in a story leads to another vent and so on. this continues until the story reaches a conclusion.

In media res: A Latin phrase meaning “in the midst of things.” Writers in the world of film use it to describe a movie scene that begins with a protagonist at a later point in the narrative. By this point, a good deal of action has taken place.

master plot: The main story that recurs again and again in the film

subplot: a secondary plot used in film and television that receives less screen time and emphasis than the main plot. Subplots may never intertwine with a story’s main plot, but to be effective, work to enhance the main plot of a film.

narrative hook: what grabs the viewer’s attention, preferably in the first 5–10 minutes

plot twist: an unsuspected occurrence or turn of events in the story that completely changes the direction or outcome of the plot from the direction it was likely to go.

Narrative is the structure and framework of a film and how the plot unfolds to tell a story.

A narrative film is a film that tells a cohesive, often fictional, story with cause and effect events through filmmaking technique

realist: An example of a realist moment in one of the films that we have studied is when the baby dies in trainspotting. this scene really give a perspective on how bad heroine is as the mood change in the scene is big

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metric montage: metric montage is the use of lots of different shots cut to the same time. an example of this is in the ending of bonnie and Clyde.

rhythmic montage: Rhythmic montage is used in music videos or when a film plays along to the soundtrack. The shots are cut to the beat of the music for example Hero by Zircon

intellectual montage: an intellectual montage is when you edit 2 shots together and connect then to an idea that has not been directly referenced. an example of this would be in jurassic park

Nikolai Prusakov – Man of Fire, 1929

Lev Kuleshov – Dura Lex 1926

Sergei Einstein- Strike 1925