Lecture 2: Forms Flashcards
Form is what
Concept and Narrative
The overall system of relations that we can perceive among the elements in the whole film is known as what?
Form
“Form equals ____.”
Content
The topics that constitute the film’s story is known as what?
Narrative Elements
What are the narrative elements in “Wizard of Oz?”
- Dorothy Dreams of a tornado
- Goes to Oz and has adventures
- Wakes up in Kansas
The way the camera moves, the patterns of colors, and the use of music is known as what?
Set of Stylistic Elements
Narrative + Stylistic elements equals what?
Unity
In “Wizard of Oz,” what are two examples of narrative development linked to stylistic pattering?
- Kansas (B&W)
- Oz (Color)
____ of the camera also call our attention to story action. And the ____ serves to describe certain characters and situations. It’s the overall process of relationships among the various elements that males up the form.
Movements; Music
“Because we have a history, we have ____…
Expectations
A tradition, a dominant style, a popular
form. These common traits are usually
called ____.
Conventions
There is a difference between emotional responses to the film by the ____ and emotional responses portrayed by an ____ in the film.
Viewer; Actor
Delayed fulfillment of an expectation is called what?
Suspense
All a matter of ____: there is no set formula to create correct emotional responses.
Context
Name the four types of meaning in form.
Referential, Explicit, Implicit, and Symptomatic
____ ____ refers to things or places invested with significance in the real world.
Referential meaning
____ ____ is defined by the context and function within the film’s overall form.
Explicit meaning
A summary or interpretation is known a what?
Implicit meaning
____ ____ is also abstract and general. It is considered a social ideology.
Symptomatic meaning
What are the five principles of film form?
Function, Similarity and Repetition, Difference and Variation, Development, and Unity/Disunity
If form in cinema is the overall interrelation among various systems of elements, we can assume that every element has one or more ____.
Function
____ is basic to our understanding of any film.
Repitition
A term to describe formal repetitions in scenes, settings, actions, objects, stylistic devices is known as what?
Motif
The Oz counterparts to Kansas characters are slightly ____, more exciting and dramatic. A film cannot rely on repetitions alone.
Different
____ constitutes a pattering of similar and differing elements. (an outline of events that occur from beginning to end).
Development
When all of the relationships we perceive withing a film are clear and economically interwoven, we call it ____.
Unity
The ____ has the task of satisfying or cheating the expectations prompted by the film as a whole.
End
A chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurring in time and space is called what?
A narrative
The distinction between plot and story is called what?
Discourse
We can think about the differences between story and plot from two perspectives: the ____ (filmmaker) and the ____ (viewer).
Storyteller; Perceiver
All the events in a narrative is known as what?
A story
From the ____ ____, events can be presented directly, hint at events that are not presented, or simply ignore events.
Storyteller’s standpoint
Everything visibly and audibly present in the film is known as what?
Plot
The ____ _____.
- Summarize the story
- Tell the plot
Story-plot Distinction
What are the three aspects of narrative?
Causality, Time, Space
____ is known as characters are usually the agents of cause and effect by triggering and reacting the certain events.
Causality
____ ____ involves the planting of information in a previous scene.
Causal Motivation
As we watch film, we construct ____ ____ based on what the plot presents.
Story time
Length of the movie is known as what?
Screen duration
Sum of all story durations is known as what?
Plot duration
Concentration on a short,
relatively cohesive time span or highlighting
significant stretches of time from a period of
many years is known as what?
Story duration
Plot and story can manipulate ____.
Space
The ways the causes and effects create a
change in the character’s development is known as what?
Change in knowledge
Development is brought to a high point is known as what?
Climax
A moment-by-moment process that
guides us in building the story out of the
plot is known as what?
Narration
information about
what characters say and do only, their external
behavior (not psychological) is known as what?
Objective narration
shots taken from the
character’s standpoint is known as what?
Point of view shot
hear sounds as
character would hear them is known as what?
Sound perspective
we understand the
character’s mind is known as what?
Mental subjectivity
A specific agent who purports to be telling us
the story is known as what?
The narrator
