Form Flashcards
1
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function
A
- elements fulfill functions
- motivation: justification for actions/choices
- motivation-functions
2
Q
similarity and repetition
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- motifs-parallelism
- reappear at climaxes/emotional moment
3
Q
parallelism
A
-compare two elements, showing similarity
4
Q
motif
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-significant repeated element
5
Q
difference and variation
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- variations: changes
- variation in repeated motifs
- parallelism needs differences
- look for similarities + differences
6
Q
development
A
- films narrate change
- progression, usually beginning-end
- segmentation: breakdown outline of parts/scenes
- allows us to see patterning
- compare beginning+end
- process shapes our experience
7
Q
unity/disunity
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- logical, clear, no gaps in story
- sense of completeness
- disunity: unresolved narrative
- sometimes has purpose + thematic meanings
8
Q
formal analysis
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-mode of analysis that we will practice regularly throughout this course, assumes an active perceiver and a work of art that provides cues
9
Q
meanings
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- created in the interaction between film and viewer
- 4 levels
- films convey ideas + opinions
- we attribute meanings
10
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film form
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- the overall set of relationships among a film’s parts
- various parts that comprise a work of art are ordered in some way
- content takes shape through form
- how parts work independently + together to produce meaning
- emotional response to pattern
11
Q
filmic conventions
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- ensure the mass legibility of cinema
- recurrent, normative, common traits
- shape expectations
- unites audience
- produce experience/communicate idea
- relate to experience/knowledge
12
Q
narrative system
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-characters, situations
13
Q
stylistic system
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- technical choices
- look, sound, feel
14
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formal expectations
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- filmmakers shape expectations
- suspense: delay expectation
- surprise: incorrect expectation
- can be disturbing/disorienting
15
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Form and Feeling
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- emotion in film plays role
- can create new responses
- engage feelings
