Film Key Facts

• Leitmotif

  Piece of music used repeatedly in connection with a character
• Verisimilitude

  The appearance of being true or real
• Realism

  Representing a person or thing in a way that is accurate and true to life
• Hybrid genre


  At least two genres put together to create a film that contains both
• Sub genre


  An identifiable sub class that has both conventions of the parent genre as well as its own identifiable conventions
• Nick Lacey’s elements to film


  Character, style and iconography, setting, narrative themes
• Stages of film


  experimental, classic, parody, reconstruction