Chapter 2

Question 1

Mise-en-scene

Answer 1

Also known as STAGING. The overall look and feel of a movie-the sum of everything the audience sees, hears, and experiences while viewing it (page36)

Question 2

Narrative

Answer 2

A cinematic structure in which CONTENT is selected and arranged in a cause-and-effect SEQUENCE of events occurring over time. (Page36)

Question 3

Sequence

Answer 3

A series of edited shots characterized by inherent unity of theme and purpose. (Page 36)

Question 4

Scene

Answer 4

A complete unit of plot action incorporating one or more shots, the setting of that action. (Page 36)

Question 5

Content

Answer 5

The subject of an artwork. Compare FORM. (Page 36)

Question 6

persistence of vision

Answer 6

The process by which the human brain retains an image for a fraction of a second longer that the eye records it (page49)

Question 7

Phi Phenomenon

Answer 7

The illusion of movement created by events that succeed each other rapidly, as when adjacent lights flash on and off alternately and we seem to see a single light shifting back and forth. This cognitive phenomenon is part of the reason we see movies as a continuous moving images, rather than a successive series of still images. (Page 49)

Question 8

Critical flicker fusion

Answer 8

A phenomenon that occurs when a single light flickers on and off such speed that the individual pulses of light fuse together to give the illusion of continuous light. See also APPARENT MOTION. (Page 49)

Question 9

Apparent motion

Answer 9

The movie projector’s tricking us into perceiving separate images as one continuous image rather than a series of jerky movements. Apparent motion is the result of such factors as the PHI PHENOMENON and CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION. (Page 49)

Question 10

Mediation

Answer 10

An agent, structure, or other formal element, whether human or technological, that transfers something, such as information in the case of movies, from one place to another. (Page 51)

Question 11

Freeze-frame

Answer 11

Also known as STOP-FRAME or HOLD-FRAME. A still image within a movie, created by repetitive printing in the laboratory of the same FRAME so that it can seen without movement for whatever length of time the filmmaker desires. (Page 54)

Question 12

REALISM

Answer 12

An interest in or concern for the actual or real; a tendency to view or represent things as they really are. Compare ANTIREALISM. (Page 56)

Question 13

ANTIREALISM

Answer 13

A treatment that is against or the opposite of REALISM. However, realism and ANTIREALISM (like realism and fantasy) are not strict polarities. (Page 56)