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Midterm #1 Flashcards

1
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Makeup of film form

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narrative and stylistic elements

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What is the power of form based on?

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expectations, either fulfilling or thwarting them

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Four Dimensions of Film

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  • mise-en-scene
  • cinematography
  • editing
  • sound
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Mise-en-scene

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“putting into the scene,” from the French theatre

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Elements of Mise-en-scene

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  • setting
  • lighting
  • costumes + makeup
  • staging/figure movement
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Setting

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  • shot on location or on a constructed set
  • props (property) –> an aspect of setting
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Lighting

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the most complicated aspect of mise-en-scene

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Four major features of film lighting

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  • quality
  • source
  • direction
  • color
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9
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Staging

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  • figure movement and performance
  • how a figure moves has a huge impact on how we perceive the character
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Composition

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the arrangement of visual elements within the frame

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Elements of Composition

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  • symmetry
  • balance
  • shape
  • color
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12
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Visions of Light

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Arnold Glassman (1993)

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Important duo from Visions of Light

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Gregg Toland and Orson Welles

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14
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Four factors in every shot

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  • framing
  • depth of field
  • color
  • movement
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15
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Framing

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the use of edges to determine what will be visible on screen

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16
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What does framing define ?

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mise-en-scene

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17
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Aspect Ratio

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ratio of width to height

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18
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Camera…

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  • angle
  • level/balance
  • height
  • distance
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Depth of Field

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range of distances before the lens within which objects are in sharp focus

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Depths of Field

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  • deep
  • shallow
  • racking
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21
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Deep depth example

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window scene in Citizen Kane (1941)

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Shallow depth example

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gun scene at the end of Se73n (1995)

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Racking Depth

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shift from front to back or vice versa

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Color

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comprised of color and tone

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25
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Color: Color

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the spectrum of colors and hues

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Color: Tone

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the shading and saturation of the colors

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27
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Camera Movements

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  • pan
  • tilt
  • tracking
  • crane
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28
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Pan

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left to right axis

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Tilt

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up and down axis

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30
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Tracking/Dolly Shot

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forward/back or in/out

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31
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Crane Shot

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shot with a crane

32
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Duration

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how long a shot lasts

33
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Four Methods of Joining Shots

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  • cut
  • fade
  • dissolve
  • wipe
34
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Four Basic Areas of Editing

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  • graphic
  • rhythmic
  • spatial
  • temporal
35
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Graphic

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concerned with editing together the pictorial qualities of two shots (ex: bone to spaceship in 2002: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968))

36
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Rhythmic

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when a discernible pattern emerges, editing has its own visual “beat” or tempo

37
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Spatial

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editors can juxtapose any two points in space and time

38
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Establishing Shot

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defines overall space

39
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Temporal

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manipulation of our experience of story time through editing

  • flashback
  • flashforward
  • elliptical editing
  • overlapping editing
40
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Elliptical Editing

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suggests more time actually goes by in a story than is presented on screen (skipping the boring parts)

41
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Overlapping Editing

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action from one shot partially repeated in next shot, expands story time

42
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Run Lola Run - director and release year

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Tom Tykwer (1998)

43
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Run Lola Run editor

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Mathilde Bonnefoy

44
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The Player - director and release year

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Robert Altman (1992)

45
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The Player- cinematographer

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Jean Lepine

46
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When did synchronized sound become the industry standard?

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1927

47
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Which film introduced synchronized sound?

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Warner Brother’s release of “The Jazz Singer”

48
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What did audiences experience prior to synchronized sound?

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Movies with live musical accompaniments

49
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Three Types of Cinematic Sound

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  • speech (dialogue)
  • music
  • sound effects (noise)
50
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Two Kinds of Sound Image Relationship

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on-screen sound and off-screen sound

51
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On-screen sound

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sound has a visible onscreen source

52
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Off-screen sound

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sound does not have a visible onscreen source

53
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Diegetic Sound

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has a clear source within the film’s diegesis (story)

54
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Nondiegetic Sound

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does not have a clear source within the films diegesis (story)

55
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Two Types of Diegetic Sound

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internal and external

56
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Internal Diegetic Sound

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Originates within a character’s subjectivity, part of the diegesis, but other characters cannot hear it (inside the character’s head)

57
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Voiceover

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characters in diegesis can’t hear it

58
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Film used to exemplify the usage of sound

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Apocalypse Now (1979)
Francis Ford Coppola

59
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What kind of narrative does The Conversation have?

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Totally restricted to Harry’s subjectivity (audience only knows as much as the character)

60
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What is a key motif in The Conversation and some examples?

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Semi-translucence

– windows, screens, raincoat, curtains, scrim
- metaphor for Harry’s understanding of the circumstances

61
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Narrative

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a chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurring in time and space

62
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Motif

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a significant element that is repeated in a film (similarity and repetition)

63
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What do patterns of motifs create?

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expectations

64
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What can strong similarities and repetition create?

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Parallelism

65
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What can changes and variations of elements create?

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variety, contrast, and change

66
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Does repetition occur in exactly the same way in a film?

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No, and the differences can be meaningful

67
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Four Types of Character Development

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  • External Change
  • Internal Change
  • Progressive Character Development
  • Regressive Character Development
68
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External Change

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indicates physical changes
ex: graying hair, weight loss

69
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Internal Change

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measures character change from within

ex: character becomes bitter

70
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Progressive Character Development

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an improvement or advance of some quality in a character

71
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Regressive Character Development

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loss of or return to some previous state or deterioration from the present state

72
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Examples of Difference and Variation in Mulholland Drive

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Diner scene
- guy and his dream
- Camilla and Betty
- Diane and the hitman

73
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The Conversation - director and release year

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Francis Ford Coppola (1974)

74
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The Conversation - sound and music

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Walter Murch
David Shire

75
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Mulholland Drive - director and release year

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David Lynch (2001)

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