theater final info Flashcards
What does a director do?
- Responsible for how the movie is portrayed (visual, emotional, and tone of film)
- chief communicator
What as in auteur?
a filmmaker whose personal influence and artistic control over a movie are so great that the filmmaker is regarded as the author of the movie.
What is montage?
putting together the shots of the film (cutting, editing)
In theater, montage may be known as what?
blocking
What is mis en scene?
design aspects of theater or film
-the arrangement of actors and scenery on stage
What is core concept?
- director aims to bring out specific images, ideas, and emotions
- core organizing principal is the highest priority image, idea, or emtion
- consider the imaged use on move poster, the font, style, and colors
What is high concept ?
- Changing historical context in order to avoid a “museum production”
- altering gender roles
- Julius Caesar
What is stylization?
- the process of taking a play beyond reality through distortion
- reality itself is now in question and a new vocabulary had to be found
What is the difference between Realism and Stylization?
The less a work of art resembles something in the physical world, the more stylized it is
What event made the circumstances difficult to support common truth?
World War II
What city was the most culturally advanced and exciting between 1925 and 1933? (also know for cabaret)
Berlin
What was the period between 1925-1933 called?
Weimar Republic
What is epic theater?
An example?
Form of didactic drama presenting a series of loosely connected scenes that avoid illusion and often interrupt the story line to address the audience directly with analysis, argument, or documentation
ie: Ferris Buler
What does distancing effect do?
prevents the audience from loosing itself completely by the character portrayed by the actor; makes the audience a critical observer
What disengages the audience from the performance?(keeps them from getting emotionally attached)
Alienation
