Terms

Question 1

What are the 6 components of a movie

Answer 1

Narrative
Mise-en-scene-staging
Cinematography
Acting
Editing
Sound

Question 2

what is a narrative

Answer 2

a story-narrative movies are fictional films, as opposed to other movie models, such as documentary or experimental

Question 3

what is Mise-en-scene

Answer 3

staging or putting on an action or scene

Question 4

what is cinematography

Answer 4

is the process of capturing moving images on film or digital storage devices

Question 5

What is Acting

Answer 5

There is no one way to do it, every actor is a master of his or her own technique in creating characters

Question 6

What is editing

Answer 6

is the selection and arrangement of shots and sounds

Question 7

What is sound

Answer 7

talking, laughing, singing, music, and the aural effects of objects and settings

Question 8

what are The 6 Major American Genres

Answer 8

Gangster, Film Noir, Science Fiction, Horror, the Western, The Musical

Question 9

What is Multiplicity Principle

Answer 9

The marker of a great film is that any given scene will serve multiple purposes-David Thorburn

Question 10

What is The Blockbuster

Answer 10

-a movie that, whatever it costs, has exceptionally large box office receipts

Question 11

What is Event Movie

Answer 11

a movie “in which as much commercial importance was attached to the merchandizing of ancillary goods – toys, games, books, clothing, bubble-gum – as to the movies’ performance at the box-office. This merchandizing extended the life of the product and guaranteed the success of its sequels”

Question 12

What are the Ways of talking about movies

Answer 12

Descriptive: talking about what you see (or hear) before you on screen.

Interpretive: interpreting what you see on screen

Evaluative: you are offering an evaluation of what you are seeing.

Question 13

What are the different Types of Film

Answer 13

Narrative film:
Documentary film:
Experimental film:

Question 14

What are the Basic units of film analysis

Answer 14

Frame: “a still photograph that when recorded in rapid succession with

other still photographs creates a motion picture”

Shot: “an unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of the

camera that lasts until it is replaced by another shot by means of a cut or

other transition”

Sequence: “a series of edited shots characterized by an inherent unity of

theme and purpose”

Scene: “a complete unit of plot action taking place in a continuous time

frame in a single location”

Question 15

What is Classical Hollywood Cinema

Answer 15

1. Clarity
2. Unity
3. Goal-oriented Characters
4. Closure
5. Unobtrusive (or invisible) Style

Principle 1: Narrative drives all of the artistic choices in a classical film!

Principle 2: Stories are about characters!

Question 16

What is Cause-and-effect logic

Answer 16

“Plot is a careful and logical working out of the laws of cause and effect.

“The film progresses like a staircase:

Question 17

Genre Conventions

Answer 17

Story Formulas

Theme

Character Types

Setting

Presentation

Stars

Question 18

What are the Musical subgenres

Answer 18

Backstage Musicals: most of the action of the film takes

place backstage as singers and dancers performs for an

audience within the story world

Question 19

Production timeline of a movie

Answer 19

Pre-production 1-2 years

Production 6 week to 6 months

Postproduction 6 months to a year

Question 20

during forms of Duration

Answer 20

Story duration: “The implied amount of time taken by the entire narrative arc of

a movie’s story – whether explicitly presented on screen”

Plot duration: “The elapsed time of the events within a story that a film chooses

to tell”

Screen duration: “the amount of time that it has taken to present the movie’s

plot-onscreen; that is, the movie’s run time”

Question 21

what is Kinesis

Answer 21

The aspect of composition that takes into account

everything that moves on the screen”