Analytical Film Terms

Question 1

Aristotle Poetics

Answer 1

Protagonist-Antagonist: Conflict is bases of all drama, takes different shapes, and has to be some struggle/
Story map, conflict map

Question 2

Narrative structure

Answer 2

Narrative structure—which incorporates storyline and plotline—is the organizational framework of a story. Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
AKA Present past present,

Question 3

Visual Motif

Answer 3

A repetition of the same image that forms a pattern with a meaning behind it.

Question 4

Mise-en-scene

Answer 4

A film’s look or decor is created by its set, props, costumes, lighting, photography, and actors’ postures and proximities, making up the film’s visual universe and generating its mood and meaning.

Question 5

Diegetic elements

Answer 5

The narrative world of the film, including all elements such as actions and sounds that happen within the films setting that, would happen in the makeup world of the film

Question 6

Non-diegetic elements

Answer 6

Background music and sounds that would not happen in the world of the film