Plotmapping: a direct correlation between the subtextual details of two or more movies that occurs with sufficient frequency as to be non-random/statistically significant, and therefore beyond simply coincidental
Parent (donor) media: a piece of media (movie, serial, video game, or book) whose subtextual details are reframed to create and support the action in another media, referred to as the child media
Child (target) media: a piece of media (movie, serial, video game, or book) that inherits subtextual details from one or more parent medias
Plot station: any subtextual details from a parent media (including plot beats, music, colors, actions, dialogue meaning/intention, blocking, framing, and more) that reappear in new forms in a child media
Correspondence: the one to one correlation between a plot station in the parent media and its new form in a child media
Mirrored shots: a shot in a child media that is reversed left to right from its initial presentation in the parent media of origin
Matching shots: a shot in a child media that is directly duplicated without directional reversal from its initial presentation in the parent media of origin
Shark's fin: a plot station in the child media that is so remarkably and uniquely similar to its correspondence in the parent media that it becomes an indicator of potential plotmapping between the two pieces of media
Time-lensing: a sequence of correspondences whose plot stations occur chronologically very close together in the parent media (seconds or minutes) but are spread out over an extended time frame (weeks, months, potentially years) in the child media -- or vice versa
Transition point: a major time stamp that reiterates the message of the media or displays some aspect that the media wants to put forward; these include the end/start of acts, the quarter and midpoints, as well as twelve smaller possible episodic divisions
Episodes (or Houses): division of the runtime of any visual media (usually without end credits) into twelve equal portions of time, which can provide more insight into how it handles its plotting and what portions of it are most influenced by plotmapping
Tipped its hand: whenever a child media -- in dialogue, shot, or other device -- makes a direct literal reference to one of its parent medias
