filmic
Relating to movies
Filmic describes qualities associated with cinema or motion pictures.
Something filmic has the visual style, pacing, or narrative techniques of film: The novel has a filmic quality, cutting between scenes like a movie.
A filmic adaptation translates a work to the screen.
The word appears more in criticism and academic writing than casual speech.
Assembled sequence of images
- mise-en-scèneVisual elements within frame
- framingStructural or contextual shaping
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- panningLateral camera traverse
dolly · tracking · zoom · cut · edit · sequence · fade · dissolve
Director with total control
- expressionismDistorting reality for emotion
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
- neo-noirRevived hardboiled crime genre
realism · noir · chiaroscuro · dreamlike · atmospheric · stylized · evocative · moody
Film's written blueprint
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- charactersPersons in a narrative
- protagonistStory's central figure
- antagonistOne who opposes another
climax · arc · theme · conflict · resolution · subplot · foreshadowing · backstory
montage
Assembled sequence of images
- mise-en-scèneVisual elements within frame
- framingStructural or contextual shaping
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
panning · dolly · tracking · zoom · cut · edit · sequence · fade · dissolve · shot
auteur
Director with total control
- expressionismDistorting reality for emotion
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
- avant-gardeInnovative cultural pioneers
neo-noir · realism · noir · chiaroscuro · dreamlike · atmospheric · stylized · evocative · moody · painterly
screenplay
Film's written blueprint
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- charactersPersons in a narrative
- protagonistStory's central figure
antagonist · climax · arc · theme · conflict · resolution · subplot · foreshadowing · backstory · narrator
intense
Extreme in degree
- suspenseAnxious uncertainty about outcomes
- emotionComplex psychological state
- performanceCarrying out a task
pathos · catharsis · tragedy · melodrama · climactic · tension · gravitas · poignant · visceral · theatrical
- artistic adverbsartistically, stylistically, expressively, evocatively, poetically
filmictheatrical
Exaggeratedly emotional for effect
literary · novelistic · stagey · bookish · televisual
- film projectorShows movies on walls
- horror filmsMovies meant to frighten
- film crewMovie-making personnel
- film studioMotion picture company
- arthouse filmUnconventional, artistic movie
- animated filmsMovies using drawn imagery
film, films, filmed, filming, filmmaker, filmmaking, filmmakers, filmography, filmgoer