Spectatorship

Question 1

What is passive determined response?

Answer 1

Predictability- films are often predictable

linear narratives, protagonist, Hugh narrative preditibility. Hero analogy, happy ending.

Question 2

What is active spectatorships?

Answer 2

watch them critically and unprediatle natural events. use complex film techniques to challenge
psychologists plaget- according to our schematas (ideas of the world change as we grow older and the way we see things. We read and respond differently due to our life experiences

Question 3

What is the uses and gratification theory?

Answer 3

Suggest the audience use to media to 
answer;
info about the worl
aesthetic pleasure
social interaction

Question 4

How does spectator viewing positions have an effect win spectarhosip?

Answer 4

The viewers personal experiences, perceptions, values, beliefs, race
where its watched without any dirsraction
bad copies of the film

Question 5

How do the viewing conditions act as a response of sepctaroship?

Answer 5

The size and quality f the screen

noise and distractions will affect the please and influence our knowledge

Question 6

What does polysemy mean?

Answer 6

Has many different meanings in the film, openessness of the film is shared by cultural experiences and cogntive processes
Roland barthes- we create the meaning

Question 7

Why does spectator resiatcne have an effect?

Answer 7

Some people may not like the genre they are watching, doesn’t suit their tastes. Aesthetic reasons.

Question 8

How does framing have an effect?

Answer 8

Close up allow us to see a characters emotions, yerrified
Long shots- make characters look vunerbale
High angles- powerful

Question 9

How does editing have an effect?

Answer 9

Create pace and excritmenet for the spectator

jump cuts- jump out of seat

Question 10

How does music have an effect?

Answer 10

Create a strong emotional response to the viewer, contrast with on screen
sad, upbeat, romantic influence spectators mood.
Emotional baggage, well known pop tune

Question 11

How does performance have an effect?

Answer 11

Create empathy, fear, costume- match a characters persona

Question 12

What is the auteur theory?

Answer 12

Develop a style that becomes recognisable to the audience

spotting; Harry Potter films

Question 13

What is the reception theory- aberrant reading?

Answer 13

Misinterpreation of a text, subversive manner different from the way to the author intended it to be. Severus Snape thinking he’s the hero not harry

Question 14

What is Stuart halls reception theory?

Answer 14

Used eco ideas, emphasised importance of readers reception. The viewer interprets the text based on their own background ad experiences. We can make a preferred negotiation/oppositional reading on the text

Question 15

What did the Frankfurt school say about media?

Answer 15

19-30s, the illusion of the cinema helped as though the audience were in the actual scene. The illusion of proximity

Question 16

What did Christopher metz say about the cinema?

Answer 16

It acted as a mirror to the audience and focused on the psychological aspects of it

Question 17

What did Laura Mulvey say about the cinema?

Answer 17

Laura Mulvey said that the darkness of the cinema creates a sense of privacy and alleviates the guilt of taking voyeuristic pleasure at watching.

Question 18

How did metz say that the character was constructed by the film?

Answer 18

the character in the seat, was left identified with a character on screen but due to the imaginary visual effects they felt uncomfortable but impossible. The audience can idealise themselves in this sensory world of impossibility

Question 19

How did Metz talk about wish fulfilment fantasy?

Answer 19

Compared it with James Bond, male English. men may compare themselevs with him and put them in this wish fulfilment sympathy pattern and may sympathise with him

Question 20

What did Laura mulvey say about men’s films being patriarch?

Answer 20

films like male films are made by men for men, “men act, women appear”. men are active protganosits whereas women are passive.
The men having dominance over the women like in James Bond “reinforces the neurotic male sexual ego”

Question 21

How may active spectators respond to films?

Answer 21

May respond in a surprisingly way, ,more simultaneous ways, the response of the audience is more individualised by personal experiences, values and context

Question 22

What are the multiple spectating selves?

Answer 22

Social self— Having a similar response to other spectators with similar values
Cultural self-Gets references and meanings by the memory of other films, tv and news
Private self-Generates personal and unique memories based on personal memroeis
desiring self- brings unconscious energies and responses that have little to do with surface content

Question 23

How can we apply captain fantastic with the uses and gratification theory?

Answer 23

One fo the meanings is that moving out of civilisation to the nourishing wildlife is a crediting thing to do. The other is that urban life can offer. contemporary good life that rural cannot
The negotiated menaing- is the clash that the other message of the environment has- the older genratoo don’t understand the values and needs for the younger generation
The oppositional effect- ben and his family are dirty hippies the children are being raised in a neglectful way. If the spectator has experience of harmful conditions in this way it may decode it to something completely different and have a contrast with the utopian that the director tries to create

Question 24

What is the spectators gaze?

Answer 24

we are observantly watching without the character knowing we are watching them, mostly used in a voyeristic pleasure

Question 25

What is intra diegetic?

Answer 25

We are watching the relationship between the two characters through shot reverse shot and feel empathy for them

Question 26

What is Extra diegetic?

Answer 26

The character know they are being watched either by another character or spectator, the march in selma

Question 27

What is Extra- a text?

Answer 27

The characters are watching a film, or we see them watching or constructing a film