Midterm

Question 1

Narrative

Answer 1

The way in which the story of the events of a movie are organized

Question 2

Feature films =

Answer 2

Narrative 1st

Everything else, secondary

Question 3

Public goals

Answer 3

Public - accomplishment of an important deed or attainment of something valuable

Question 4

Private goals

Answer 4

Frequently a heterosexual romance

Question 5

Plots and subplots

Answer 5

Main dramatic plot, comic and romantic subplots

Question 6

Story and plot

Answer 6

Story - events that must be narrated chronological order

Plot - the arrangement of those events as they are told… occur in the order the filmmakers choose to present them

Question 7

Flashback

Answer 7

Structure.. it creates a plot with added suspense

Question 8

Free motifs

Answer 8

Aren’t essential to retelling or explaining of a narrative.

Such as animals being slaughtered or taxidermy

Question 9

Bound motifs

Answer 9

Connor be removed from the narrative without radically changing the chronological essence of the story. Necessary for telling the story.

Question 10

Flashbacks

Answer 10

Normally reveal what ‘really’ happened but they can be duplicitous

Question 11

Formal properties

Answer 11

Refer to the elements of the medium shape what we see and hear when we watch a film. The visual. And aural element of a film

Question 12

Stylistic norm

Answer 12

Unusual for the time of their release

Question 13

Offscreen space

6 potential areas

Answer 13

Left
Right
Top
Bottom
Behind camera
Beyond horizon

Question 14

Can be structured to create formal complexity

Answer 14

Color and sound

Question 15

Common stylistic techniques

Answer 15

The 180 degree rule

Question 16

The subject matter is secondary; how it is represented is primary

Answer 16

Visual style and narrative effect

Question 17

What is an author?

Answer 17

Screenwriters

Question 18

Structural analysis

Answer 18

All films are considered to be part of a group wherein any film can be fully understood only in relation to the entire structure or oeuvre

Question 19

Linear analysis

Answer 19

Charts shifts, progressions, and changes in both the world of the films and their style

Question 20

Genre means

Answer 20

Type

Question 21

Linear and structural analysis is the study of..

Answer 21

Films themselves not the person who made them

Question 22

Textual author

Answer 22

Assumption that the meanings that we can derive from studying their oeuvre are not entirely the conscious creation of the living filmmakers but rather that they emerge from the critical analysis of the works

Question 23

Genre periods

Answer 23

Early
Middle
Late
Or with one that is referential

Question 24

Stage acting

Answer 24

Complete control of everything from start to finish. They start talking and don’t stop until they perform their cue line.

Question 25

Film acting

Answer 25

Only perform for a few minutes of dialogue at a time over a 3 month period and the performance is put together by editors.

Question 26

Stars vs actors

Answer 26

Stars - people in commercials

Actor - people on tv shows

Question 27

The classic Hollywood style of narrative structure

Answer 27

Is when you move from one event to the next, the plot has a clear forward movement. Everything contributes to the resolution to the goals

Question 28

Public v.s private goals

Answer 28

Private goals would relate to a romance where as public goals relate to the attainment of an important deed or obstacle

Question 29

Free and bound motifs

Answer 29

Free motifs can be removed from the film without changing the narrative structure where as bound motifs have to remain in the film otherwise things aren’t going to make sense

Question 30

3 departures from stylistic norm.

Answer 30

Split screen
Long takes
Deep focus

Question 31

What is the invisible style of editing

Answer 31

A film that is so well made that you don’t notice that you are watching a film

Question 32

Establishing shots

Answer 32

set up Where the scene is going to take place

Question 33

A pattern whereby 1st a shot shows one character and then there’s a cut to a reverse shot

Answer 33

Shot reverse shot

Question 34

Cutting on action

Answer 34

?

Question 35

180 degree rule

Answer 35

If you draw a line between two characters and they can’t cross that line? Double check this answer

Question 36

The author of a film

Answer 36

?

Question 37

Director

Answer 37

Maintains the creative control

Question 38

Directors entire body of work summed up in 3 periods…

Answer 38

Early
Middle
Late

Question 39

Linear and structural

Answer 39

Structural

Question 40

Public personas

Answer 40

Directors create a public persona through public appearances such as public interviews or red carpet events

Question 41

Genres like directors go through developmental periods, how do they typically end?

Answer 41

When films become more reflective, retrospective or referential.

Question 42

Sequel

Answer 42

?

Question 43

Prequel

Answer 43

?

Question 44

How do you determine who authors a creative work of film?

Answer 44

?

Question 45

How plot is composed by the filmmaker

Answer 45

?