Eduqas GCSE Film Studies film language and form overview quiz quiz

Plot, theme, character, setting and the mood of the whole piece

Genre, narrative, style, context

Cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, sound

Camera, lighting, colour, music

Everything that is carefully arranged within the frame, such as the setting, props, costume and the staging

Only the musical score

The marketing of the film

The camera and the image: framing, shot type, angle, movement, focus, lens, and lighting and colour

Putting on stage: everything arranged within the frame, including setting, props, costume, hair and make-up, lighting and staging

The editing of shots: how separate pieces of footage are cut, joined and ordered together to build a finished sequence up on screen

Only the dialogue

The order in which scenes are filmed

Diegetic is loud, non-diegetic is quiet

Diegetic comes from the world of the film and is heard by characters; non-diegetic is added over the film and heard only by us

Diegetic always means the spoken dialogue, while non-diegetic always means the background sound effects added later in the edit

There is no difference

High-key

Soft fill

Low-key

Backlighting only

The design of the film's sound

Colour grading

Costume design

Continuity editing

Powerful or dominant

Small and vulnerable

Neutral and ordinary

Far away

A feeling of calm, stillness and slow reflection

Tension, energy and excitement

A change of location

A sense of the past

Only the lines of the script exactly as they are written down on the page

Only the costume

Facial expression, gesture, body language, movement and the voice

The editing rhythm

Retelling the whole plot of the film as accurately and in as much detail as you possibly can

Listing as many techniques as possible

Describing the set in detail

Naming a technique, then explaining the meaning and response it creates, tied to context