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Mid Term Flashcards

1
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What constitutes formal analysis of film

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Recognizing the tools and principles that film makers use in order to convey meaning or something

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What is Cinematic language

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Accepted systems, methods or conventions by which movies communicate w/ the viewer

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What is cultural invisibility

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Film will portray the culture of the time it was made; historical

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Form

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Is the means by which the subject is expressed

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Content

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The subject of an artwork (what it is about)

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How do we differentiate film from where other art forms

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Motion

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What is the relationship between movies and culture

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Movies reflect the culture of the time

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Implicit meaning

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Deep level association (implied context)

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Explicit meaning

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Explained meaning

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Diegetic elements

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Haven’t added sound (Characters world can hear it)

Ex people play music in front of person

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Nondiegetic element

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Sound has been added in the movie (character in movie cannot hear)
Ex background music

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What is mise-en-scene

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It is the overall look and feel of the movie

everything the audience experience

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To main components of mise en scene

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Design and composition

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Design

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Lighting, sound, stage, makeup, costume, and hair

The design of film

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Composition

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Framing and kinesis

What we see on screen and what moves on screen

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Role of production designer in film production

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Works on overall design concept of the film

Big cheese of design part

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17
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What or who is the primary narrator in film

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The camera

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18
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What are the various types of narration possible in film

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Ominsant (omnipotent)

And

Restricted

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Omisant (Omnipotent)

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Camera goes anywhere to any one at any time

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Restricted narrator

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Follows one person

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What do we mean by theme or narrative intent

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Theme-
what the movie is trying to say/teach themematically (implicit meaning of form

Narrative intent
How does it achieve it, through plot, structure, and character

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Story

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Everything that happens up to the point —> context in plot

Implied events

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Plot

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Stuff that happen on the screen

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What constitutes the typical Hollywood narrative structure

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Beginning (act 1)

Middle (act 2)

End (act 3)

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Act 1

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Set up story and establish the normal world

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Act 2

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Longest section that develops the story

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Act 3

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Resolves the story

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Climax

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Moment of truth for the protagonist all they have learned is put to the test

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Goals

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A narrative significant objective pursued by the protagonist

30
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Stakes

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That which is at risk as a consequence of the protagonist pursuit of the goal

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Conflict

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Obstacles that block the protagonist from achieving goals

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Round character

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Changes throughout the story (has a character arc = round)

33
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Flat character

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Character doesn’t change, supports the round

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Protagonist

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Main character

35
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Antagonist

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Stops the main character from achieving goal

36
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Anti hero

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Unsympathetic character trying to achieve a less noble goal

37
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Responsibilities of cinematographer on film production

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In charge of shot and composition

They do camera work

Responsible w/ framing,
Speed, length of every shot

38
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Key shooting terms

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Shot

Take

Setup

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Shot

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One uninterrupted run of a camera

40
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Take

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Number of times a particular shot is taken

41
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Setup

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One camera position and everything associated with it

42
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Most important properties of lighting

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Direction
Source
Quality
Style

Die stay quiet stupid

43
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Traditional lighting techniques

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3 points lighting scheme

44
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What are some of the consideration a cinematographer must take into account when composing a shot

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Film stock you gonna use

The lighting you gonna use

The lens you gonna use

45
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Source of light

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Natural (from sun)

Or

Artificial (instruments)

46
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Quality of light

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Hard lighting

Soft lighting

47
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Direction of light

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Where light is coming from

48
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Style of light

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High key - low contrast

Low key - high contrast

49
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Lens

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Gives you depth of field

Determines your focal length, aperture, distance from camera to subject

50
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Filmstock

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Gives you colors

51
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Black and white film

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More realistic and emphasizes dark features

Makes it gritty realism

52
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Key differences between film versus digital

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Film- light used to expose it

Digital- can format resolution (better) editing is easier,

53
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Different types of camera movement

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The zoom- zoom in

Pan shot- horizontal movement of cam

Tilt shot- vertical movement of cam

Dolly shot/ tracking- cam on wheeled support

Crane shot

54
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Rule of 3rds

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Form of a grid pattern that, when superimposed on an image divides it into horizontal thirds

Foreground

Midground

Background

55
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What are the responsibilities of an editor on a film production

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Spatial relationships between shots

Temporal relationships b/w shots (continuity of dicontinuity)

Overall rhythm of shots

56
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Kuleshov effect

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Emotion we get from film is from juxtaposition of all shot in the film

Created montage

57
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Fundemintal editing techs

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Continuity editing (smooth don’t see edit)

Cut on action -keep continuity
Matching on action

Discontinuity editing (pull out of the movie)

Parallel editing (2 or more action happening at same time at diff places

Crosscutting- cutting together two or more lines of action. That happen at same time

58
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Transitions

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Fade in (black to image)

Fade out (image to black)

Dissolve (image dissolve)

Freeze frame

59
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What is master scene technique and how it relate to 180 tech

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Master shot- single scene that covers character and action in one continues shot (establish location and situation)

180 rule only film on one side of the axis shot— the master shot then you can play around

60
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Role of sound design

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Sound is integral part of movie

Same expressive ness like picture

61
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What are different types of sound

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Dialogue ( recorders during production)
Vocal sounds

Environmental sounds( ambient sound effect— folly sounds)

Music (mixed post production)

Silence

Diegetic and nondiagetic

62
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Sound mixing affects experience by

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Mixing sound so that Tyler is a proper balance

63
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Music is used in film to

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Emphasis feeling or things of character on screen and it affects our emotions

64
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Diff type of movie actors

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Leading or supporting

Personality or character actors

Non pro actors (play themselves)

65
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Essential relationship between actor is with

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Camera not audience

66
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Specific challenges in acting on film

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Talking to camera and their relationship with it

Little time for acting rehearsal

Movies filmed out of sequence

Actors must repeat same stuff over and over

Framing and composition

67
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Classical school of acting

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Root is Shakespeare’s

Not getting outrageous you are just saying words from a text

68
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Method acting

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Rooted in Moscow theater (Konstantin Stanislavsky)

Seeks truth of character

Emotional orientated and internal

Actors own experience

69
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Meisner acting

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Rooted in works of Sanford messier

Action orientated and external
Based on reacting to the other actors and environment

70
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Different approaches actors can take to performance

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Naturalistic - feel like people

Non naturalistic - stylized performance
Edward scissor hand
Improvisation - no to script

71
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Editing affect actors performance by

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Editors have considerable power in shaping onscreen actors performance

Controls duration they on screen

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