DI - Cinematic Terms (Assessment) Flashcards
_____: The notion that the director is the author of the film.
Auteur
________: A pointed distinction between light and dark areas of the frame achieved by the use of low-key lighting.
Chiaroscuro
_______ _____: This creates the illusion of continuity through straight cuts which do not distract us from the action
Continuity editing
_________ _____: Any sound which contrasts strongly with the image on screen.
Contrapuntal sound
________: The unravelling of a plot leading to the final resolution (closure)
Denouement
______ _____: Any sound which is integral to the world of film.
Diegetic sound
_____: An image slowly bought in beneath another image. This is frequently done to register time or spatial shifts in Double Indemnity.
Dissolve
_____: The deliberate omission of events in the film, possibly to add pace or tension to the narrative.
Ellipsis
____ ____: A women with a dangerously attractive sexuality, who could use her seductive powers to empower herself and suborn others to her will.
Femme fatale
______: A reversal of temporal flow often used in film noir to give a sense of fatalism as events have already occurred, rendering the protagonists hopeless to the prevailing mood of inevitability.
Flashback
______: A term derived from Propp to describe acts of characters, which have particular significance on the course of action.
Functions
______: The selection, cutting and piecing together of sections of film as a whole.
Montage
_________: The theoretical analysis of narrative of the study of a film realisation and elaboration of a story.
Narratology
____ ____: The term devised by Propp to condense the diverse range of characters in Russian wonder tales into seven archetypal figures also referred to as dramatic personae.
Tale role
___-____ ____: A sound imposed externally upon the world of the film. In Double Indemnity this is usually the use of music and aspects of Neff’s voice over.
Non-diegetic sound
______ ____: Music or other sound effects which compliment the action.
Parallel sound
_____ __ ____: Propp’s term for the combination of plot function and tale roles.
Spheres of action
___ _____: A glamourous effect created when the main light source comes from above.
Top lighting
_____ Keyes: A character in Double Indemnity
Barton
____ ____: The director of Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder
What is French poetic realism?
Where characters are doomed to their fate.
What is Italian neo-realism?
Voice-over and documentary style
What is German expressionism?
Low-key lighting and chiaroscuro effect?
