4The Rule of Thirds — Predating cinema by many centuries, the rule of thirds marks the intersection of movies and less dynamic forms of visual art—painting, sculpture, and architecture. When we note the "painterly" composition style of a particular movie image, we very often are seeing the rule of thirds at work.

4The Steadicam and Camera Movement — If you have ever shot film or video using a handheld camera, or if you have seen someone else's unedited footage, you know that handheld cinematography seems to exaggerate every movement, from an intentional pan to an unintentional bump or jiggle.

4Special Effects Companies —Industrial Light and Magic, a division of director George Lucas's company, Lucasfilm, has an illustrious filmography that begins with films such as Lucas's Star Wars (1977) and Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and includes recent films such as Jonathan Mostow's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).