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Narrative Structure of Film Flashcards

1
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Key to all art?

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Rhythm

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2
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How many character did greeks have

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-3 characters
-just men

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3
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What do we think rhythm is?

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We think of it as music and poetry

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Greek theater

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Music, poetry, dance, etc.

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Dionysius

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-Most popular greek god
God of:
-Wine - Transformation - actor + audience
-Fertility = sex = creation

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Action =

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Actor

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7
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What did 3 actors do

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3 actors only
changed masks to become different characters

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What do masks do

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Captures key factors of emotion

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9
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3 characters =

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conflict

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10
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Lead character =

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superhero

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“arc” of a character

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-The journey
-search for truth: divine-self
-playwright, actor, audience, follow sexual climax

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12
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Act I “fade in”

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-Start of the film
-all dramatic art is life
-The past - Exposition - Back story
-What happened in the past that made them who they are

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13
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Act I “Set up”

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By the end of act I there is no way but forward conflict

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Glint in the eye =

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Romance

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Protagonist

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Hero or heroine or bath - person we cheer for

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16
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Antagonist

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Villain

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17
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Almost climax

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almost climax - stop - almost climax - stop; repeatly

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18
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Act III

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-Build to climax
-Hero wins
-Wins by dying for good cause
-give your life for
-redemption before or while dying
-discovers truth as we discover truth “light bulb goes off”

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19
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Build to “climax” =

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= orgasm = birth or rebirth

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20
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Falling action =

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Denouncement

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21
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The end =

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Fade out

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22
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God/divine =

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Creator

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23
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Man =

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Sex = creator

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24
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Artists =

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art = creator

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25
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Climax of film =

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Birth of divinee

26
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US film showing time

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-act I = 30 minutes
-act II = 60 minutes
-act III = 30 minutes
US film more action

27
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Foreign Films

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-act I = 60 minutes
-act II = 30 minutes
-act III = 30 minutes
European films more character building

28
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Five minute short film

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Act I = 1-1.5 min.
Act II = 3-4 min.
Act III = 1-1.5 min.

29
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Ten minutes short film

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Act I = 2-3 min.
Act II = 4-6 min.
Act III = 2-3 min.

30
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Vitascope

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-made by Edison
-project onto screen
-Run by electricity
-Filmed theater variety acts, bicycles, singers, animal acts
- 8-10 acts per viewing

31
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What did edison steal?

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-A copy of trip to the moon
-makes copies of melies films and markets it as his own work
-Never paid melies (went bankrupt)

32
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Bicycle prints

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bicycle that would show a film when people pedaled

33
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Movie Parlors

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Nickelodeons - charged a nickel
-“flickers”
-Small bands play music during show
-1-1.5 hour shows
- first in NYC - then chicago
-2 million people saw the films per day

34
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how many store front chairs were there?

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75 chairs

35
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Edisons greatest film

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-shot in New Jersey
-First Western
-based on old plays

36
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The great train robbery

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-Most popular film for 10 years
-1st parallel action - cuts back and forth between 2 stories
-bandits tie up station manager
-camera never moves until fight on top of train
-the train moves; scenery passes
-camera on engine

37
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Great train robbery details

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-Hired 12-14 year old children to paint color on individual frames
-hand tinted frames create mood (like photoshop)
-Painted lense black on window then vice versa to get lighting right then double expose the two frames

38
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Broncho Billy

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First western movie star

39
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Where was the first close up in history

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The great train robbery

40
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Edison studio

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-Copies Melies all glass paris studio
-Competition - biograph studios
-shot on rooftops
-barry monde studio

41
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Motion picture patents company

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-Black market mafia
-Made crime films

42
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Move to hollywood

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-Flee NYC
-First went to Jacksonville, FL
- Florida didn’t have great weather

43
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Norman Studios

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  • Jacksonville, Fl.
    -white owner - all black cast
  • would share his movies with black people
    -Black Gold
44
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Miami

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-Film makers come to miami before hollywood
-Tarzan was made in Miami
Problem with weather and mosquitos
-Went to cuba, had same problem

45
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Hollywood

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-Better weather
-L.A multiple locations
-Rural - cowboys + farmers - fruit and olives
-stage coaches
-wild west: indians

46
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L.A real estate capital

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Hollywoodland - real estate investment
- land fell off hence why hollywood

47
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Why was la a perfect spot

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-Mountains and hills
-Desert
-Ocean and seaports
-Snow in mountains
-year round film making

48
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Epic foreign films

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-shown in broadway
-rich and educated are finally going to the movies

49
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First american epic film

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The squaw man
-1.5 hours long - 6 reels long
-directed by cecil B. mille
-from a broadway play
-leading actor and actress had an affair
-hollywood loves gossip
-white man marries native americans- takes her home to england

50
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D.W. Griffith

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wrote and acted in theater and for Edison and director for biograph studios

51
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The birth of the Nation

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-Most successful film in history until very recent
-Adopted by Glansman
-Used matthew brady pictures
- Klu Klux klan
-race riots - black face
-cost few hundred dollars to produce
-Racist propaganda

52
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NAACP

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-organization against birth of a nation

53
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Birth of a Nation details

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-Blacks (whites) rape white people
- grossed $50 million
-played 1 year in atlanta; 1 year in russia
-eisenstien studied it
-middle and upper class
-Introduces different shots but keeps chronological order
-wide shots
-1st film to integrate individual shots/medium shots
-1st close up shots
-Billy bitzer cameraman loves to experiment

54
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Lillian Gish

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griffths star actor

55
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Intolerence

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-included 4 stories
-used massive set
1. Fall of babylon - Inprisonment of jews, Directs from hot air ballon, Evil+sex in historical and bible stories sells
2. Roman Crucification
3. Religious cleansing = murder of french Huguenots
4. Chinese immigrant - USA prejudice

56
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Way Down East

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-produced by Griffith
-New camera editing techniques
-intercut technique/audience fills in missing pieces

57
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Napoleon - Abel Gance

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-Film five hours
-Failure
-Camera placed on pendulum/put camera on horse
-3 screen finale
-sound developed during the same time so people didn’t pay attention to the film

58
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Abel Gance

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-Outspoken pacifist
-believed he could change the world

59
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Movie capitol

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U.S
-Movie theaters = Movies palaces
-U.S films shown around the world

60
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Nanook of the North

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-directed by robery flahery
-first documentary
-followed Eskimo family

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