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Lecture 2: Forms Flashcards

1
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Form is what

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Concept and Narrative

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2
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The overall system of relations that we can perceive among the elements in the whole film is known as what?

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Form

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3
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“Form equals ____.”

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Content

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4
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The topics that constitute the film’s story is known as what?

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Narrative Elements

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5
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What are the narrative elements in “Wizard of Oz?”

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  • Dorothy Dreams of a tornado
  • Goes to Oz and has adventures
  • Wakes up in Kansas
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6
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The way the camera moves, the patterns of colors, and the use of music is known as what?

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Set of Stylistic Elements

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7
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Narrative + Stylistic elements equals what?

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Unity

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In “Wizard of Oz,” what are two examples of narrative development linked to stylistic pattering?

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  • Kansas (B&W)

- Oz (Color)

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____ 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.

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Movements; Music

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10
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“Because we have a history, we have ____…

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Expectations

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A tradition, a dominant style, a popular
form. These common traits are usually
called ____.

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Conventions

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12
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There is a difference between emotional responses to the film by the ____ and emotional responses portrayed by an ____ in the film.

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Viewer; Actor

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13
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Delayed fulfillment of an expectation is called what?

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Suspense

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14
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All a matter of ____: there is no set formula to create correct emotional responses.

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Context

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15
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Name the four types of meaning in form.

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Referential, Explicit, Implicit, and Symptomatic

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____ ____ refers to things or places invested with significance in the real world.

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Referential meaning

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____ ____ is defined by the context and function within the film’s overall form.

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Explicit meaning

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A summary or interpretation is known a what?

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Implicit meaning

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____ ____ is also abstract and general. It is considered a social ideology.

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Symptomatic meaning

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What are the five principles of film form?

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Function, Similarity and Repetition, Difference and Variation, Development, and Unity/Disunity

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21
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If form in cinema is the overall interrelation among various systems of elements, we can assume that every element has one or more ____.

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Function

22
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____ is basic to our understanding of any film.

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Repitition

23
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A term to describe formal repetitions in scenes, settings, actions, objects, stylistic devices is known as what?

A

Motif

24
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The Oz counterparts to Kansas characters are slightly ____, more exciting and dramatic. A film cannot rely on repetitions alone.

A

Different

25
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____ constitutes a pattering of similar and differing elements. (an outline of events that occur from beginning to end).

A

Development

26
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When all of the relationships we perceive withing a film are clear and economically interwoven, we call it ____.

A

Unity

27
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The ____ has the task of satisfying or cheating the expectations prompted by the film as a whole.

A

End

28
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A chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurring in time and space is called what?

A

A narrative

29
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The distinction between plot and story is called what?

A

Discourse

30
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We can think about the differences between story and plot from two perspectives: the ____ (filmmaker) and the ____ (viewer).

A

Storyteller; Perceiver

31
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All the events in a narrative is known as what?

A

A story

32
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From the ____ ____, events can be presented directly, hint at events that are not presented, or simply ignore events.

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Storyteller’s standpoint

33
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Everything visibly and audibly present in the film is known as what?

A

Plot

34
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The ____ _____.

  • Summarize the story
  • Tell the plot
A

Story-plot Distinction

35
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What are the three aspects of narrative?

A

Causality, Time, Space

36
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____ is known as characters are usually the agents of cause and effect by triggering and reacting the certain events.

A

Causality

37
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____ ____ involves the planting of information in a previous scene.

A

Causal Motivation

38
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As we watch film, we construct ____ ____ based on what the plot presents.

A

Story time

39
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Length of the movie is known as what?

A

Screen duration

40
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Sum of all story durations is known as what?

A

Plot duration

41
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Concentration on a short,
relatively cohesive time span or highlighting
significant stretches of time from a period of
many years is known as what?

A

Story duration

42
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Plot and story can manipulate ____.

A

Space

43
Q

The ways the causes and effects create a

change in the character’s development is known as what?

A

Change in knowledge

44
Q

Development is brought to a high point is known as what?

A

Climax

45
Q

A moment-by-moment process that
guides us in building the story out of the
plot is known as what?

A

Narration

46
Q

information about
what characters say and do only, their external
behavior (not psychological) is known as what?

A

Objective narration

47
Q

shots taken from the

character’s standpoint is known as what?

A

Point of view shot

48
Q

hear sounds as

character would hear them is known as what?

A

Sound perspective

49
Q

we understand the

character’s mind is known as what?

A

Mental subjectivity

50
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A specific agent who purports to be telling us

the story is known as what?

A

The narrator

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