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Final Terms Flashcards

1
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Genre syntax

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Genre grammar

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Genre semantics

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Genre vocabulary

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Kuleshov effect

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The tendency of the spectator to find a meaning in the editing of 2 shots

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Montage

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Meaning through editing where it doesn’t exist in individual shots

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Sequence shot

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Shooting an entire scene as a single long take

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Tableau composition

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The frame represents / replicates proscenium arch of theatre

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Dialectical montage

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Power of editing in collision of contrasting shots

Eisenstein

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Sound track

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All sonic elements in film
Dialogue
Environmental sounds
Non diegetic music
Voiceover

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Voice of god

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3rd person voiceover
Not visually represented

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Sound design

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Stylistic choices in layering/arranging sonic elements

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Sonic flashback

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Uses sound from a past tense over the present tense image

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Sound Bridge

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Transition in which past sounds will continue over an edit to a new shot
(Next shot sound before image)

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Sound perspective

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Adjusting volume, timbre, & pitch according to the distance of the camera

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Timbre

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Quality of sound

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ADR

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Automated Dialogue Replacement
Selectively dubs dialogue over footage to replace lines

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Foley

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Customs recorded sound effects

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17
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Sound effects

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Assembled in a library of sounds to be dropped in

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18
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Scoring

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Music written to support /accompany narrative

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Spotting

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Process of deciding where music should begin & end

20
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Leitmotif

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The practice of repeating melodies in a musical piece to suggest an idea or character

21
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Diagetic sound

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All sound emerging from the story world

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Nondiegetic sound

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All sound from outside story world

23
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Romanticist scoring

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Classical music from 19th century
Tempos express emotion
Experimental instrumentation
Emphasize melody > harmony

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Modernist Scoring

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Compositions which resist western tonal scales
Lack of melody
Non traditional instrumentation
Contrast w/ emotion of scene

25
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Actuality footage

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Indexically records an event but the footage alone is meaningless
(Requires greater structure)

26
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Shooting ratio

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Documentaries require more footage than needed

27
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Talking head interviews

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Testimonials

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Indexicality

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Having a direct imprint of external reality
(Cinema)

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Icon

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Having a resemblance to external reality
(Animation)

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Symbol

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Having only an arbitrary & codified relation to external reality
(Written story)

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Documentary ethics

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Relationship between documentarist & social actors

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Conceptualism

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Fine art requires previous knowledge of fine art
Intellectual/theoretical art

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Surrealism

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Protests experience & inner life in abstract form

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De familiarization

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Poetry should make the overly familiar strange; defamiliarize the world/reality
Shklovsky

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Avant Garde

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Implies a cultural rebellion

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Abstract film

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Non narrative, no acting, doesn’t attempt to reference reality

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Structural /Materialist film

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Time, perception, or the shot can form basis of film

38
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Episodic structure

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Conflict resolved each episode

39
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Anthology structure

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Characters, settings, & events don’t carry over episode to episode
Twilight zone

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Serial structure

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Narratives built on multiple parts, often w/cliff hangers @ end
Narrative is linear

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Episodic/Serial structure

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Resolves main conflict each episode, but Carries storylines & development throughout series

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A/B narrative form

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Alternates subplots based on different characters & complementary conflicts

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Long-form narrative

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Monster of the week
Alternates A/B/C/D… plots with equal emphasis

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National cinema

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An approach that groups films by origin or place of production
Context of location allows greater understanding of film

45
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Star persona

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Examines multiple films
Personality traits = ideas

46
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Auteurism

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Critics read films by directorial style

Film Analysis 2023 (2 decks)

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