Test 2

Question 1

Framing a shot

Answer 1

how a shot in a movie is designed, what you see, what is in focus/not in focus, and tells the audience what to focus on

Question 2

Close up

Answer 2

When a character is looking into the camera up close, used to make feeling with the character, their emotion, or personality

Question 3

Two-shot close up

Answer 3

allows the audience to see relationship between two characters

Question 4

Medium shot

Answer 4

moves away from characters, and provides more information about the situation/you can see the background

Question 5

Long take

Answer 5

a very long take that follows action for an extended period of time, and if gives the audience a sense of real time

Question 6

Establishing shot

Answer 6

sets the scene by showing the location, characters, etc. normally at the beginning of a movie or scene

Question 7

High angle

Answer 7

“God’s eye view”, suggests a feeling of danger or helplessness

Question 8

Eye-level angle

Answer 8

at the character’s eye level, a neutral angle that makes the audience comfortable and makes the character seem more “human”

Question 9

Low angle

Answer 9

makes the object seem larger and suggests a feeling of power

Question 10

The fourth wall

Answer 10

The character addresses the audience or does something that breaks immersion, can provide exposition as someone explains what happened and where the characters are

Question 11

Mockumentary

Answer 11

A mock documentary that tries to act like a real documentary where the media is fake and part of the story, narrative through interviews, recordings, phone images

Question 12

Pan

Answer 12

When the camera moves from left to right or right to left, where from right to left is uncomfortable and the opposite is comfortable

Question 13

Short take

Answer 13

quick shots that are used in action, fights, and chase scenes. They imply urgency and danger

Question 14

Diegetic sound

Answer 14

from the score of a film, characters speaking, traffic footsteps, etc. background noise

Question 15

Non-diegetic sound

Answer 15

the musical score, used to heighten emotion

Question 16

Internal diegetic sound

Answer 16

audience hears characters’ private thoughts, or narration

Question 17

Quest narrative

Answer 17

the hero must leave the familiar and go on a quest

Question 18

Bildungsroman

Answer 18

means a building story or development, like harry potter, where it starts with younger protagonists and the characters develop and are different at the end of the story

Question 19

Found footage

Answer 19

aspires to verisimilitude (be real), it looks like it could be real, and is the POV of the protagonists. The protagonist usually dies a mysterious death and leaves the camera or the footage is found. The filming is usually justified some stupid way

Question 20

Verisimilitude

Answer 20

appears to be real

Question 21

New media films

Answer 21

films about computers or social media, usually mediated through the screen, where the media is integral to the story and the audience immersion

Question 22

Historical fiction

Answer 22

a story set in the past that is reliant on research and accuracy to the time period the story takes place, including the fashion, diction, and is based in realism

Question 23

Revisionist history

Answer 23

Reimagines a historical period or event, and blends historical figures from different eras. It is often unrealistic or fantastical, with no rules

Question 24

Realism

Answer 24

Imitates reality, depicts normal everyday lives, with a focus on psychological development, like motivation and other aspects of people. There is focus on dialogue and interaction

Question 25

Romance

Answer 25

means an unrealistic story, normally a hero on a journey with supernatural elements like talking animals, monsters, and magic

Question 26

Mystery

Answer 26

there is a crime to be solved, where the audience participates by trying to figure out who the killer is before it is revealed. Uses realism so that the reader can figure it out.

Question 27

Science fiction

Answer 27

science is the main focus, as without science the re is no story. Has advance technology in the future with aliens

Question 28

Fantasy

Answer 28

typically another world in “the past,” in an undeveloped medieval time with fantastic elements like dragons, spells, monsters. Tolkien defined the Genre

Question 29

Gothic

Answer 29

characterized by dread, fear, danger, depicts chaos, or lack of control, shows human frailty with ghosts and demons, and architecture is a key element with castles and manors

Question 30

the hero

Answer 30

a character arch-type that is an orphan, unaware or potential, stats because of a traumatic incident, and sets out on a quest to become who he was meant to be, or part of a group

Question 31

Individuation

Answer 31

become who you are meant to be

Question 32

Incorporation

Answer 32

become part of a group

Question 33

The shadow

Answer 33

part of the hero that inhibits the quest, could be addition, weakness, fear etc.

Question 34

the herald

Answer 34

a strange or frightening entity that insert itself and initiates contact between the hero and his quest/ starts his quest

Question 35

The wise old man

Answer 35

a source of wisdom for the hero, speaks in riddles, and is often killed during the story, the hero replaces him, lives far away and carries a staff and a light

Question 36

old man staff

Answer 36

symbolizes stability

Question 37

old man light

Answer 37

shows that he is the source of enlightenment

Question 38

the good mother

Answer 38

feminine source of knowledge, a nurturing figure who encourages the hero to leave

Question 39

the bad mother

Answer 39

a feminine figure who betrays the hero and captures or destroys children

Question 40

the child

Answer 40

represents the hope of a better future, can be a real child, or figurative, a new day or the emergence of a new paradigm