Intro to Film Flashcards

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Theory by Stuart Hull which involves Encoding and Decoding and 4 ways of Reading a Piece

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Audience Reception Theory

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Person creates message, pushes and codes the meaning through a medium and audience is required to understand the meaning.

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Encoding and Decoding

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The hegemonic or ruling interpretation of the meaning of a piece of work.

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Dominant Reading

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The meaning which is preferred by the director.

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Professional Reading

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Reading where audience understands meaning by author but differ in their understanding b/c of culture.

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Negotiated Reading

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Purposely watching with opposite intention of what is meant.

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Oppositional Reading

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Series of steps where audience responds to piece of media.

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Critical Response to Media

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Audience states what they found meaningful, interesting, exciting in a piece of work.

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Statement of Meaning

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Audience ask director/artist about piece without inflecting any bias in question.

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Neutral Questions

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10
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Original short snippets of cinema seen through many different technology.

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Illusion Machines

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Brain fills in difference between frames.

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Retinal Permanence

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Paintings found in French cave which when illuminated with flickering torch, created illusion of animation.

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Chauvet Cave Paintings

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Machine in late 19th century/early 20th century that displayed frames of film through rotating a wheel with a crank that would show each frame.

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Mutoscope

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Period of planning, filming, editing of the film.

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Production

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Marketing the film and getting it out to the public through movie theatres, streaming services, etc.

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Distribution

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16
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Film size used for Artsy films

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Film Size used for documentary

18
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Commercial Standard of film size

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Imax film size

20
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Steps of Film Analysis

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Starts with evaluation of film before analyzing the patterns and motifs of film.

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What are expectations of films

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Patterns of plot structure, resembled as ABAB…

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What are the four types of film meaning

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Referential, Explicit, Implicit, Symptomatic.

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This type of film meaning is based upon the audience understanding references to current times/events.

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Referential Meaning

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This type of film meaning is the straightforward meaning which is clearly asserted in the film.

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Explicit Meaning.

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This type of film meaning is the general meaning which is what the explicit meaning is meant to symbolize.
Implicit Meaning
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This type of film meaning takes the film as a symptom or result of a larger world problem.
Symptomatic Meaning.
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