 French word for “author”  This usually occurs when a cinema journalist indicates the director who has stamped a film with his/her personality  The opposition is: matteurs en scene who transcribes a work from another medium into film (comic book to film)

Optical Perspective:  Depth of field: the portion of a scene that appears acceptably sharp in the image.

Optical Properties:  Shallow Focus: Blurs background with intend of focusing ONLY on the main subject.

Optical Properties:  Deep focus: Focuses on a large span of space. Makes a room appear as though it goes on forever.

Optical Properties:  Racking focus: the practice of shifting the attention of a viewer of a film or video by changing the focus of the lens from a subject in the foreground to a subject in the background, or vice versa.focuslens

 All the things that are put in a scene to create a mood or diegesis.  The Setting, décor, the lighting, the costumes, the performance ect.  Narrative films manipulate the elements of the mise-en-scene to intensify or undermine the scene.

 A segment of a narrative film that usually takes place in a single time and place.  Crosscutting: one scene that contains two lines of action occurring in different space or even times.  Often, sequencing occurs after filming

 Single stream of images, uninterrupted by editing  The Matrix has added a new dimension to boundaries in a shot.  The use of computer graphics and sequences built-up from still-frames.

 Stop motion: a technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own.

 Superimposition: the placement of an image or video on top of an already-existing image or video, usually to add to the overall image effect, but also sometimes to conceal something.image An Overlap of two images.