- Auteur: director; puts their own personality in a project
- Diegesis: objects, events, the characters that inhibit them, actions/attitudes not explicitly stated
- Flash-back/Flash-forward: jump backwards/forwards in time
- Focus: shallow, deep, racking
- Mise-en–scene: everything put in scenes
- Iris– round/moving mask; adds special attention to scenes
- Crosscutting: alternates two scenes happening at same time; suggest history repeats itself
- Typage: actors picked based on physical features; uses stereotypes to communicate essential characteristics
- Decor: objects & setting; defines characters/ emotion & mood of film
- Costume: distinguishes characters; conveys time period