Formal Assessment 0 Flashcards
This term is used as another term for ‘story’.
Narrative.
A film that forms the central focus of research or investigation.
Focus film.
A perceived economic trend towards the whole world becoming a single market.
Globalisation.
A nationalistic political movement. Mussolini and Hitler.
Fascism.
The use of ridicule, irony or sarcasm to expose vice or stupidity; the lampooning of self-important individuals.
Satire.
A person’s or a society’s set of beliefs and values or overall way at looking at the world.
Ideology.
is the sound that is heard in the fictional world, the sound that the characters in that world can hear.
Diegetic sound.
This is the sound that is outside the fictional world, and that characters in the fictional world cannot hear.
Non-diegetic sound.
The recounting of events of the film in chronological order - although this may not be how they are told in the film.
Story.
This term refers to the ‘type’ of film.
Genre.
The final phase of a narrative film that resolves all the storylines that have been set running.
Resolution.
Not only actors but also directors, screenwriters, producers, cinematographers and others involved in commercial filmmaking have these.
Agents.
The concept that refers to the way that different groups in society see us and the way in which we see ourselves.
Identity.
Provides the explanation for the way events unfold in the story.
Plot.
this refers to the way in which mainstream films are moved forward by one scene or event having been caused by an earlier one and in turn giving rise to an effect which is seen in a subsequent scene or event.
Cause and effect.
The ordering of a series of events in time sequence.
Chronology.
Developed by Sigmund Freud, this is the attempt to explain individual human behaviour in terms of the conflict between conscious and unconscious desires.
Psychoanalysis.
it can be turned left or right to follow a subject within a horizontal plane, or tilted up or down to follow the same subject in a vertical plane.
Camerawork.
overarching explanations of how things are in the world.
Metanarratives.
This refers to the various ways in which the light is controlled and manipulated.
Lighting.
This suggests a depth of investigation and an intensity of focus that ‘watching films’ simply does not convey.
Reading films.
This is a technique where the sound is not directly related to the image, but when placed together an additional meaning is created.
Contrapuntal sound.
This term refers to staging, or ‘putting on stage’.
Mise-en-scene.
The set of ideas each of us brings with us when we watch any film.
Expectations.
A term used to suggest the variety of places that films can now be viewed.
Windows.
