Film Form and Narrative

Question 1

What is form?

Answer 1

The overall set of relationships among a film’s parts

Question 2

Does form affect viewer expectations?

Answer 2

Certainly

Question 3

What are subject and theme?

Answer 3

Subject: What a film is about (surface level)
Theme: Film’s take on the subject

Question 4

Motif

Answer 4

Meaningful repetition of a formal element that contributes to film pattern

Question 5

What is symbol?

Answer 5

Object/person which stands for itself and represents something more than itself.

Question 6

Narrative?

Answer 6

Chain of events linked by cause and effect, occuring in time and space

Question 7

Story?

Answer 7

Chain of events in chronological order

Question 8

Plot

Answer 8

Cinematic presentation… stylized

Question 9

Diegetic vs nondiegetic

Answer 9

Diegetic is proper to a film

Question 10

Linear?

Answer 10

Beginning, middle, end… think chart

Question 11

Different narration types

Answer 11

Omniscient/unrestricted: audience knows more than characters
Restricted first person: Inside or outside… access to character’s head
Restricted third person: focus on one character, just not in their head