The Dissolve: The Apartment Flashcards
The scenes that precede this chapter take place outside.
Rocket is on the beach with _______.
Angelica
Rocket offers to go and get her a ______ at Blacky’s.
Joint
In a series of cuts he goes from the beach to the Apartment through narrow streets of low shacks with tin roofs, now with apartment blocks in the background.
We see long shots down alleyways, empty except for a mangy ________.
Dog
A low angle looks up between apartments followed by a cut to a dark corridor and knocks on a door.
Cut to _______ inside who opens the door.
Blacky
The Apartment consists of a living room containing a few pieces of furniture including a broken refrigerator; the walls are daubed with paint.
At the back, on either side of the front door are a bedroom to the left and a bathroom to the right, where a ______ and lavatory can be seen.
Basin
Rocket asks for a joint.
While he is waiting there is a banging on the front door.
Blacky pulls out a ______
Gun
Cut to the fixed ______ shot that will tell the story.
Long
We will not enter the Apartment ourselves, or see things from the characters’ points of view.
This is in marked contrast to the highly ______ style of most film.
Mobile
A wide angle ____ and deep focus give an exaggerated perspective to the room where figures appear large in the foreground, small in the background.
Lens
The story is told with a series of dissolves where people appear, disappear and reappear in different parts of the ______.
Room
In the Apartment the characters watch themselves.
The walls change _______, the furniture moves and objects change.
Colour
As usual Rocket guides us through the story that begins with the dissolve into a tidier, more homely version, with the overall colour of the warmer _____.
Past
Define heterodiegetic.
A narrator that does not take part in the plot.
The Apartment is mainly yellow, the predominant colour of the 60s favela; a ________ is in the foreground right, a yellow curtain draped behind it conceals the lavatory from our view.
Table
Carrot and Aristotle make an agreement but whilst they are doing so Big Boy appears large in the front left.
He knows what is going on and now the ______ is very dark.
Big Boy’s ultimatum leads to Aristotle’s death.
The Apartment is now very dark indeed.
Without changing camera positions the spectator just watches from a distance and listens to the story told by someone who wasn’t there.
We can have no illusion that we are participating in [and therefore having an influence on] the action.
Screen
