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How does ‘‘form’’ and ‘‘pattern’’ affect the viewer’s experience?

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It gives the viewer a structured experience and engages ones senses, feelings and minds through artwork

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What is ‘‘suspense’’?

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A delay in fulfilling expectations

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What is a ‘‘surprise’’?

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A result of an expectation that turns out to be incorrect

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What is ‘‘curiosity’’?

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A trigger that makes one wonder about earlier or future events

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What is ‘‘prior experience’’?

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Information that is assumed that the viewer already knows so it doesn’t have to be explained in the movie

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What are ‘‘coventions’’?

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Elements that are common to several artworks such as traditions, a dominant style, or popular form. For example, a fantasy film commonly involves magic, sci-fi often involves robots

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What is ‘‘referential meaning’’?

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The most basic story line of the film

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What is ‘‘Explicit meaning’’?

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The point of the film/what the film is trying to teach or tell the audience

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What is ‘‘Implicit meaning’’?

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The more abstract underlying meaning of a film/the symbolic meaning constructed by the audience

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What is ‘‘Symptomatic meaning’’?

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A meaning of a film that has its roots in social values or ideologies. For example capitalism, racism, environmentalism

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What is ‘‘Motif’’?

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A significant, repeated element that contributes to the overall form. It can be an item, sound, lines of dialogue, music etc. The rose that means love in Rome and Juliet

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What are ‘‘parallels’’?

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When two or more scenes are happening at the same time but in different locations. They usually meet and have some sort of connecting action at some point in the film

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What is ‘‘Segmentation’’?

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Segmentation in the film refers to the method of analyzing a film’s narrative by creating a detailed outline of the story. This outline divides the story into significant parts in order to understand its narrative system.

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What is ‘‘Unity’’?

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When all relationships we perceive are clear, it’s called that a film has unity

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What is ‘‘Disunity’’?

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When the relationships in a film are not clear and there isn’t a clear connection between things

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What is ‘‘narrative’’?

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A story that is told

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What is the ‘‘story’’?

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A chain of events in chronological order, from beginning to end

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What is the ‘‘plot’’?

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The storyline of the film. Describes the order and sequence of events

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What is ‘‘diegesis’’?

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The total world of the story action including characters, what is presumed has happened, etc.

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What are ‘‘diegetic elements’’?

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Elements that the characters of the film are aware of and experience themselves

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What are non-diegetic elements?

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Everything that happens outside of the diegesis such as credits and soundtracks

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What is meant by ‘‘Cause and Effect’’?

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The way the spectator actively seeks to connect events by means

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What is ‘‘Temporal Order’’?

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How events are sequenced. This can be through flashbacks, flash-forwards

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What is ‘‘Temporal Duration’’?

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The overall duration of the plot

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What is ''story duration''?
The amount of time that passes during the story duration
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What is ''plot duration''?
The actual time that passes from the beginning of the narration to the end
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What is ''screen duration''?
The length of the film itself
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What is the difference between story and plot?
The story is the timeline: the sequence of events in the narrative. The plot supports the story and makes it come to life
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What is '' temporal frequency''?
When the same event is repeated and told by multiple narrators
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What is a ''setup''?
The first quarter of the film
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What is ''Opening in media res''?
When a film begins in the middle of a series of actions that have already started
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What is ''backstory''?
Actions that already took place
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What is ''exposition''?
The portion of the plot that lays out the backstory and the initial situation
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What is ''change of knowledge''?
When a character learns more in the course of the action
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What is a ''goal-oriented plot''?
When a character takes steps to achieve an object or condition. For example an investigation
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What is a ''deadline''?
When a plot has a specific duration for the action. For example a bomb
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What is a ''climax''?
When the plot resolves its issues by bringing the development to the highpoint
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What is a ''unrestricted narration/omnicent narration''?
When we know, hear and see more than the characters
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Restricted narration?
We don't know, hear or see anything that the character can
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Objective narration?
When the plot fully confides us information about what the characters say and do
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Perceptual subjectivity?
The audience is shown what the character sees and hears from the POV of the character
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Mental subjectivity?
When the audience is shown what is going on in the mind of the character
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Narration?
The process by which the plot presents story information to the spectator
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Narrator?
The teller of the story
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Mise-en-scene?
''Putting into scene''. Used to signify the directors control about what appears in the film frame (setting, lightning, costume and make-up, staging and performance)
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The power of mise-en-scene?
To achieve realism or create an imaginary world - whatever the director wants to achieve
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Shading?
Allowing objects to have portions of darkness
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What does lighting do?
Controls our sense of scene space
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What are the four major aspects of lighting?
Quality, direction, source and color
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Quality?
Refers to the relative intension of the illumination
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Hard lighting?
Creates clearly defined shadows, crisp textures and sharp edges
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Soft lighting?
Creates non-clear illumination
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Direction?
Refers to the path of light from its sources or sources to the lit object
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Sidelight/crosslight?
Sculpts the characters features
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Backlighting/edge lighting/rim lighting?
Comes from behind the subject and creates silhouettes, contours
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Frontal lighting?
Eliminates shadows
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Under lighting?
From below the subject and creates distort features
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Top lighting?
Comes from above the subject and creates a glamourous image
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What is source in regards to light?
Where the light comes from
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Key light?
The primary source, brightest illuminations and strongest shadows
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Fill light?
An intense illumination that ''fills in'' softening or eliminating shadows
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Three-point lighting?
The light that comes from different angles
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High-key lighting?
A lighting design that uses fill light and backlight to create a relatively low contrast between brighter and darker areas
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Low-key lighting?
Creates stronger contrasts and sharper, darker shadows.
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Color?
Refers to the color of the light
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What is typecasting?
When someone is cast because of specific features that have been seen before
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CGI?
Computer-generated imagery
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Bilateral symmetry?
Balancing the left and right halves of the film frame
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Monochromatic color design?
Emphasizing a single color
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Shallow-space composition?
When the mise-en-scene suggests little depth
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Deep-space composition?
When the mise-en-scene suggests much depth
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Focal length?
The distance from the center of the lens to the point where light rays converge to a point of focus of the film
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Short-focal-length (wide-angle) lens
The lens takes in a wide field of view and exaggerated depth
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Middle-focal-length (medium) lens
Seeks to avoid perspective distortion. Horizontal and vertical lines are rendered as straight
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Long-focal-length (telephoto) lens
Flattens the space along the camera axis. Cues for depth and volume are reduced
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Zoom lens
Resizes what's shown and changes the image's perspective
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Depth of field
A range of distances within which objects can be photographed in sharp focus
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Selective focus
Choosing to focus on only one plane and letting the other planes blur
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Deep focus
Yielding a greater depth of a field
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Racking focus
Making one plane blurred and another sharp in order to switch our attention between foreground and background
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Mobile framing
Allows the filmmaker to change the camera angle, level, height or distance during the shot
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Pan movement
The camera swivels on a vertical axis as if it is turning its head right or left
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Tilt movement
Camera swivels on a vertical axis as if the camera is turning its head up or down
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Tracking shot/ dolly shot
The camera changes position along the ground
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Crane shot
The camera rises or descends
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Take
One run of the camera that records a single shot
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Sequence shot
When an entire scene is rendered in only one shot
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Editing
Lets the filmmaker decide which shots to include and how they will be arranged
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Cut
Instant change from one shot to another
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Fade-out
Gradually darkens the end of a shot to black
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Fade-in
Lightens a shot from black
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Dissolve
Gradually mixes the end of shot A and beginning of shot B
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Wipe
Shot B replaces shot A by means of a boundary line moving across the screen

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