Chapter 2 "How to Watch a Movie" Flashcards

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What is the “illusion of movement” and how does the brain process moving pictures?

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Also known as beta movement:
When the brain interprets two stimuli shown in quick succession as the movement of a single object

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What is the difference between a “shot” and a “frame”?

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Shot- a continuous capture of a span of action
Frame- the visual border of the captured image

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Define “Cinematic Language”

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a set of rules and conventions by which cinema communicates meaning

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Define “Visual Lexicon”

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The shared set of meaningful units in our collective cinematic language that we all understand mean something when employed in a motion picture.

aka: a set of things that we understand mean something else

ex) images, angles, transitions and camera moves

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How does understanding “cinematic language” and visual lexicon” help us to analyze movies?

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Much like understanding the rules of English by means of it’s grammar, we can read more of what message was trying to be translated

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What are some different types of shots?

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close up, medium/long shots, low/high-angle shot

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Discuss the various kinds of transitions used in film.

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Fade in/out- drifts out of/into darkness
Dissolves- a fade into another scene
Iris in/out (more outdated)
Cutting on action

wipe, passing transition, whip pan
Match cut- connects similar things in scenes (sound movement, images)
Match dissolve - combination of the match cut and dissolve
Smash cut- cut between 2 highly contrasting themes
Jcut/Lcut- when audio bleeds over from another shot

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What is the difference between the implicit and explicit meaning in films. How does this help to convey the theme of a movie?

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implicit- underlying meaning
explicit- obvious meaning

the explicit meaning is often the vehicle for which to express the implicit meaning of a film, that is to say, what the film is truly about

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what is the difference between co-expressive and non-diegetic use of sound?

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co-expressive: noises which occur in scene (the characters can hear)
non-diegetic: noises that occur outside of frame/no source on screen

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What are the methods for synchronizing and use of sound in a film?

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sound can is used to shape how we perceive an image.
This isn’t just music , it is all the noises we hear, and even sometimes the ones we do not, it is

Sound Design

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What is the relationship between sound design and mise-en-scene?

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Sound design is the glue that makes mise-en-scene stick

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How does “framing” or “composition” help create implicit or explicit meaning in movies?

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through things like “motifs” (recurring patters) or movement, either that of the frame or the actors and objects within it

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