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• 1. Ordinary world Take hero from everyday and place them in new setting
• Call to adventure Problem/challenge the hero gets inspired by
• Refusal of the call Fear of hero makes them question if they are going or not. Encouragement to bring the hero to commitment required
• Mentor Guide/confidante to hero, preparing them for what's up
• Crossing first threshold Movie takes off, drastic change (end of first act)
• Approach to inmost cave Nearing dangerous area, where enemy or danger presents itself
• Ordeal Hero exposed to imminent danger - black moment when we are left with a cliffhanger
• Reward After overcoming the ordeal and getting a reward of some sorts
• Road back Hero deals with consequences met in the ordeal
• Resurrection Darkness last touch, near death experience for hero
• Return with elixir Hero returns to ordinary world with something special to save the day
• Protagonist Person that moves story along
• Antagonist Person working against story progression
• Anti villains Moral charters working against the protagonist if the P is an anti-hero
• Mirror villain Dark example of what the hero could have been
• Pure villain No sympathetic traits, no redeeming backstories/motives
• Halo effect Confirmation bias where physical attractiveness is combined with favorable qualities
• Leitmotiv Recurring element that is associated with person/idea
• ADT (Affective disposition theory) Good things should happen to the hero, bad things to the villain
• Anti-hero appeal Moral disengagement theory - we can put aside moral failing
• Parasocial relationship Viewer connects with a media persona
• Empathy Viewers experience the emotions displayed by the protagonist
• Wishful identification Viewers become the character, forgetting about their own reality
• Logine Sentence describing the narrative of a movie
• Plot Cause and event relationship between events in a story
• Foreshadowing Concrete planting of narrative elements relevant later in the story
• Red herring Clue to the plot which is intentionally or unintentionally misleading
• MacGuffin Plot device in form of goal of motivator that the protagonist will sacrifice anything to get with little to no narrative explanations
• Deus ex machina Unsolvable problem is solved with an unexpected intervention of some sorts (T-rex attacking raptors)
• Narrative involvement Interests which viewers follow the events as they unfold in the story
• Social surrogacy TV provide people with experience of belongingness
• Social grease Points to a please in talking about a shared tv experience with others the day after
• Perception of indeterminacy Live unscpripted TV experiences unfold in ways that are not expected/decided beforehadn
• Selective exposure Individuals tendency to favor info which reinforces pre-existing views while avoiding contradictory info
• Series Stories that conclude in each episode
• Serials Overarching storyline is followed throughout episodes
• Exposition Background info that the audience needs to keep up with the story
• Ellipsis Omitting a portion of the sequence of events. Used to remove unimportant segments of the narrative
• Redundancy Distinctive feature of restating a problem or goal after a break
• Spinoff/crossover Intramediality, spinning off from a 'mother' series
• Cultivation theory People watching TV thinks that the world is mean and scary because of media depiction
• Movie Moving images
• Motion blur Moving camera fast to create a fast blur
• High framerate effects Uncanny valley theory, can make filmset stand out
• Pan shot Moving from left or right or up or down
• Tracking shot Any shot where the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside subject that is recorded
• Establishing shot (wide shot) Creates setting of a scene
• Medium shot Character from waist up

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