Midterm - Narrative

Question 1

Inciting Incident

Answer 1

The first moment the protagonist meets the source of conflict

Question 2

Plot Point 1

Answer 2

Where the major conflict commences in earnest, irreversible

Question 3

Midpoint

Answer 3

Emblematic of conflict of Act 2

Question 4

Plot Point 2

Answer 4

Ramps up conflict, everything we know about conflict is wrong

Question 5

Three-Act Structure

Answer 5

How 90% of films are constructed, 1st act 25%, 2nd 60%, 3rd 15%. Act 2 is rising conflict.

Question 6

Plot Point 3/Climax

Answer 6

Point where main conflict is resolved

Question 7

Denouement

Answer 7

Part after climax, “conflictless”

Question 8

Exposition

Answer 8

Background information about main characters, setting, etc

Question 9

Beat

Answer 9

A point in the film where the conflict at the moment changes, roughly 2.5 times per minute on average

Question 10

Narrative

Answer 10

A chain of events in cause-effect relationship that occur in time and space

Question 11

Plot

Answer 11

Everything visibly and audibly present in the film

Question 12

Story

Answer 12

Set of all events in narrative, including presented and inferred

Question 13

Diegesis

Answer 13

Total world of the story action

Question 14

Duration

Answer 14

Length of an event, scene or shot

Question 15

Temporal Frequency

Answer 15

How many times we see an event

Question 16

In Medias Res

Answer 16

In the middle of things

Question 17

Change in Knowledge

Answer 17

Type of plot development where a character learns something

Question 18

Goal-Oriented Plot

Answer 18

Plot where something is desired and attempted to be achieved, i;e investigation

Question 19

Narration

Answer 19

Plot’s way of distributing info to create effects

Question 20

Hierarchy of Knowledge

Answer 20

Who knows more, characters or viewers

Question 21

Narrator

Answer 21

Someone telling us the story, can be character or not

Question 22

Closure

Answer 22

Sense of completion and ending at end of film