midterm 2 Flashcards

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what are the 8 components of analyzing sets?

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  1. exterior or interior
  2. style
  3. studio or location
  4. period
  5. class
  6. size
  7. decoration
  8. symbolic function
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how did the introduction of sound affect cinema and acting? Explain the challenges

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It affected acting because actors and actresses could make less jerky movements or exaggeration. There was a turn to more comical acting and cinema. Cameras could move and sound could be picked up from wherever the actor moved. The scenes could look more natural.

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Define Foley Artist

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The sound technician in charge of sound effects after the principal photography has been completed

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what is the name of the individual who creates sound to dub over film

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Foley artist

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what are the differences between story and plot

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The story can be defined as the general subject matter, the raw materials of a dramatic action in chronological sequence. The plot, on the other hand, involves the storyteller’s method of superimposing a structural pattern over the story. the plot is the structuring of the scenes into how the story is told.

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How does a character’s costume communicate certain traits and relationships in a film?

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it does this through color or lines. like the examples in the book at first Juliets dress was a vibrant red and after she married Romeo she wore cool blue tones. it can show off the actor or actresses traits - costumes designed to highlight them. Realist films often clothes are just bought so they look normal or tattered if they are of a poorer class.

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why were movies never considered completely silent

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Virtually all movies prior to 1927 were accompanied by some kind of music. In the large city theaters, full orchestras provided atmospheric background to the visuals. In small towns, a piano was often used for the same purpose. In many theaters, the “Mighty Wurlitzer” organ, with its bellowing pipes, was the standard musical accompaniment.

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describe the differences between the audience, spectators, cinephiles, and fans

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audience - is where you generate a mass media following, people go see things in groups
spectator - is an individual positioned between the screen and the projector
fans- individuals who have a passionate connection to popular media
cinephile - related to the auteur theory, someone that studies film usually fits the description. they watch the movie based on sound, style and their intellectual interest in cinema. this implies both a way of watching and speaking about films . this type of audience only watches films in theatres.

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what are some difficulties faced women, people from different races, people of different ages, and people with different physical appearnaces face when it comes to casting

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they can not be what the director had in mind for the part, which can be a negative for these actors. They are different so they dont want that to take away from the story. sometimes they are not cast just based on these things.

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What 4 types of acting are there?

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silent film acting
the British tradition
method acting
new wave

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Explain the difference between a stage director and a screen director?

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A stage director puts together the production but once the curtain is up it is all on the actor, they are the artist here. A screen director gets to put the film together in bits and parts, which doesn’t allow the actor to fully mod the character, so here the screen director is the artist.

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Is Nicole Kidman a personality star or an actor star?

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an actor star

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Given an analysis of Wes Anderson as an auteur.

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he has a distinct visual style - he uses a high degree of formalism and every shot is arranged carefully, he uses all of the frame, perfectly centred shots or symmetrical compositions.
Characters - populates his films with offbeat, outsider characters that are struggling in some sort of way
collaborations - he generally casts the same crew of actors and actresses.

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Explain the Ghostbusters controversy.

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People reacting without watching, almost judging how it would be. Fans did not want to watch because they were heavily invested in the original film. Merchandise was also made cheaper so people were not buying. They thought it was a “womens” Ghostbusters that didn’t go with the original story of Ghostbusters.

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What did sound do to acting styles?

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performers got to act more natural, close ups where they could speak and convey what they were doing or saying came naturally. less jerky movements.

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What are the 3 narrative styles?

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realistic, classical, formalistic

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How do pitch, volume and tempo affect our response to sound?

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High-pitched sounds are generally strident and produce a sense of tension in the listener. generally used in suspense scenes. Loud sounds tend to be forceful, intense, and threatening, whereas quiet sounds strike us as delicate, hesitant, and often weak. The faster the tempo of sound, the greater the tension produced in the listener.

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Differentiate between formalistic and realistic musicals

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realistic musicals usually justify a song or dance with a brief bit of dialogue—“Hey kids, let’s rehearse the barn number”—and the barn number is then presented to the audience. In formalistic musicals characters burst out in song and dance in the middle of a scene without easing into the number with a plausible pretext.

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Differentiate between formalistic and realistic musicals

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realistic musicals usually justify a song or dance with a brief bit of dialogue—“Hey kids, let’s rehearse the barn number”—and the barn number is then presented to the audience. In formalistic musicals characters burst out in song and dance in the middle of a scene without easing into the number with a plausible pretext.

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What are the differences between formalist and realistic narratives?

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realistic narratives tend to dedramatize. they are often set in a specific time period and show “life as it is”. They do not heighten any experience they sometimes show shocking events that are criticized negatively but it is to emphasize the “realness” aspect of the move. Realistic narratives tell the story slower than formalist narratives. Formalist narratives often cut and mix different times to tell the story faster. They heighten the drama, often used in musicals with lyrical interludes. They use cliches like destiny and fate.

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Explain how a story of a film would follow a classical paradigm?

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Movies are structured narratively with a clear conflict, several implications along the way to a major climax and then a resolution that emphasizes formal closure

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list the 4 types of audiences and briefly explain each of them

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audience - based on mass media, movies have a large following, group dynamic people will go see movies in a group as a social activity
specator- the person between the projector and the screen
fans- individuals who have a passionate connection to popular media (ghostbusters)
cinephile - based on the auteur theory. usually someone who studies film. watches the film only in theatres and watches it based on sound, style and their intellectual interest in films.

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What are the different categories of actors?

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personality stars and actor stars

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What are the 8 components of set design and analysis?

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  1. style
  2. class
  3. period
  4. exterior or interior
  5. studio or location
  6. size
  7. decoration
  8. symbolic function
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Explain why adapting a film to a theatre stage would be harder than adapting a play or musical to cinema.

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Adapting a film to a theatre stage would be hard because directors make a film out of bits and pieces, time and space are are fragmented by individual shots. Edited to flow together. Whereas a play is one story told all at the same time on stage which could easily be translated to film by the director just using a long shot to capture the story.

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Briefly describe the job of a Foley Artist.

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a sound effects technician. they gather all sounds for the movies and dub over the finished scenes.

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Describe one key characteristic of a formalist film and name a movie that we watched for class that is an example of that characteristic.

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time is scrambled- run Lola run! because there are a lot of scenes that the director left out. like in a realist film they probably would have captured the conversations in the car leading up to the bank robbery but in this formalist film they skipped over it to heighten the suspense of the movie and tell the story faster

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Explain two ways in which acting was affected by the transition to sound cinema. Give an example of an actor who adapted successfully.

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more natural movements - less jerky, more comical acting. Clark Gable

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Define diegetic and nondiegetic sound. Explain how they are used in film. (using examples from one of the films we watched)

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diegetic sound is defined as sound coming from a source that the audience can identify on screen, in the frame or the action that creates the sound is happening the frame, characters speaking, thunder, cars.. non diabetic sound is sound that cannot be sourced from being in the frame or shot like narratives, dubbed sound effects that aren’t evident as a source in the shot. dietetic sound would be in les amours imaginaries and non-diegetic sound would be the use of narrative in dogville.

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What are the four styles of acting?

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Method acting
The British tradition
silent films
the new wave

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Lisy 10 of the 12 parts of costume analysis.

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  1. period
  2. class
  3. sex
  4. age
  5. silhouette
  6. fabric
  7. accessories
  8. color
  9. body exposure
  10. function
  11. body attitude
  12. image
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What did Gustav Freytag create in terms of story?

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inverted V structure

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List the 8 characteristics of setting analysis

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  1. period
  2. class
  3. exterior or interior
  4. studio or location
  5. decoration
  6. style
  7. size
  8. symbolic function
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Explain the introduction of sound film on production

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films were never really silent. movies started getting microphones that would hang about actors so they could move naturally through the set and cameras could pan this. acting became less jerky. started to create sound affectst that could be dubbed over finished filming.

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What is the role of the foley artist?

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to create sounds for all of the sound effects needed in the film, called the sound technician, dubs them over the finished shots.

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What is the difference between a reality star and a personality star?

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a personality star is an actor or actress of great popularity that will only assume roles that go with their perceived image. they will refuse other varieties. Actor stars are actors or actresses of great popularity that can play a wide variety of roles.

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Which 2 psychiatrists influenced genre theorists and what belief did the 2 share?

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Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. believed that art is a reflection of underlying structures of meaning, that it satisfies certain subconscious needs in both the artist and audience

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What is a personality star?

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a personality star is an actor or actress of great popularity that will only assume roles that go with his or her persona, they will not take any roles that do not go with their perceived image.

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Describe the classic paradigm.

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The classic paradigm is a common structure of narrative where the story has a clearly defined conflict, implications that lead up to an intensified climax and a resolution that serves as a formal closure.

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Describe method acting.

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Method acting is where the actors or actresses really assume their role. They internally accept their role and not just demonstrate it on the exterior by showing behaviours of the character. They take months to research and get into character. Spoken dialogue is secondary to method acting.

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List 4 traits of a formalistic narrative

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artificiality

time is scrambled and rearranged