week 2

Question 1

narrative

Answer 1

a chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurin in time and space

how to tell a story

Question 2

story

Answer 2

event that are pressumed to have occured and actions and space not shown onscreen

Question 3

story/digesis

Answer 3

-story9also called a diegesis)
-diagetic information(inside of the world)
-non-diegetic information (the character dosnt see/outside of the world)

can characters interact with it ?

Question 4

stories

Answer 4

In a narrative film, all the events that we see and hear, plus all
those that we infer or assume to have occurred, arranged in their
presumed causal relations, chronological order, duration, frequency,
and spatial locations;

Question 5

plot

Answer 5

a narrative film, all the events that are directly presented to us,
including their causal relations, chronological order, duration,
frequency, and spatial locations vs a story, which is the
viewer’s imaginary construction of all the events in the narrative. See
also duration, ellipsis, flashback, flashforward, frequency, order,
viewing time.

Question 6

plot vs story

Answer 6

we learn about a film’s story through the plot it give us (we learn directly from the movie)

story inferences through the plot that has already occured in the world of the movie F

Question 7

how do filmakers guide our experiences of the film/inferences/the narrative

Answer 7

causality,time,space

Question 8

causality

Answer 8

what happens in the film to make other stuff happen

what happens in a story is not random

-characters are causal agents
-whitheld plot info(kept from us )

Question 9

time

Answer 9

something happens and anotherthing happens help us understand its order

order
duration
frequency

Question 10

space

Answer 10

setting
what is actual shown
aiming the camera to one seen rather then a another shows us the importance of that

where it happens

Question 11

style

Answer 11

mise-an -scene,cinematography/faming ,editing , sound

Question 12

narrative form

Question 13

what is nerrative

Answer 13

narrative to be a chain of events linked by cause and
effect and occurring in time and space.

can also mean story

narrtive has order wich that help us understand a story

Question 14

We make sense of a narrative, then, by identifying its events and linking
them by cause and effect, time, and space. We also look out for parallels that
can shed light on the ongoing action

Question 15

If narrative depends on changes created by cause and effect, what kinds of
things can function as causes?

Answer 15

characters: causes things to happen in a story

nature can also be a cause : sharks,earthquques,tisunamies

Question 16

cause and effect does not to be presented to the audience in that order

Answer 16

In general, whenever any film creates a mystery, the
plot initially suppresses certain story causes and presents only enigmatic
effects.

withholds effects. Normally this creates curiosity and suspense, as when
a crime film doesn’t tell us immediately whether a character has been
captured or killed.

Question 17

Time

Answer 17

In short, filmmakers must decide how the film’s plot will treat
chronological order and temporal duration and frequency.

by flashbacks,straight forward,flashfoward,reordering scenes

Question 18

Temporal Duration: How Long Do the Events Take?

Answer 18

• The filmmaker can
  manipulate screen duration

Question 19

ex

Answer 19

For example, North by Northwest has an overall story duration
of several years (including all relevant story events), an overall plot duration
of four days and nights, and a screen duration of about 136 minutes.

Question 20

Temporal Frequency:

Answer 20

Most commonly, a story event is presented only once in the plot.
Occasionally, however, a single story event may appear twice or even more
in the plot treatment. If we see an event early in a film’s plot, and then, later
in the plot, there is a flashback to that event, we see that same event twice.
Some films use multiple narrators, each of whom describes the same event;
again, we see it take place several times

Question 21

This increased frequency

Answer 21

allow us to see the same action in several ways. Repetition can take place
simply on the soundtrack. Sometimes only a single line of dialogue
will reappear, haunting a character who can’t escape the memory of
that moment.

Question 22

Space

Answer 22

In film narrative, space is usually an important factor. Events occur in
particular places

Question 23

Openings

Answer 23

A film does not just start, it begins.

Question 24

backstory

Answer 24

actions that took place before the plot started

the initial situation is called the exposition.Usually exposition
takes place early in the plot,

Question 25

development

Answer 25

the causes and effect create patterns of development

what causes development in the story?

-change in knowdge
-goal - oriented : there is a goal that main character must achive

-Time may also provide plot patterns. A framing situation in the present
may initiate a series of flashbacks showing how events led up to the present
situation,

-Time may also provide plot patterns. A framing situation in the present
may initiate a series of flashbacks showing how events led up to the present
situation,

Question 26

deadline

Answer 26

The plot may also create a specific
duration for the action—a deadline.

maybe some pressure of time

Question 27

climax

Answer 27

The plot
will typically resolve its causal issues by bringing the development to a high
point

Question 28

narration

Answer 28

the plot’s way of distributing story
information in order to achieve specific effects.

Question 29

unestricted narration/omniscent narration

Answer 29

We
know more, we see and hear more, than any of the characters can.

Question 30

restricted narration

Answer 30

Restricted narration is important to mystery films because such
films engage our interest by hiding important causes. Confining the plot to
an investigator’s range of knowledge plausibly motivates concealing
important story information

Answer 31

This oscillation between restricted and unrestricted narration is common in
films. Typically the plot shifts from character to character, giving us a little
more than any one character knows while still withholding some crucial
items from us. Even if the plot is focused on a single protagonist, the
narration usually includes a few scenes that the character isn’t present to
witness.

Question 32

A film’s narration manipulates not only the range of knowledge but also the
depth of our knowledge.

Answer 32

The filmmaker must decide how far to plunge into a
character’s psychological states. As with restricted and unrestricted
narration, there is a spectrum between objectivity and subjectivity.

Question 33

perceptual subjectivity.

Answer 33

Or we might
hear sounds as the character would hear them, what sound recordists call
sound perspective. In short, through either sight or sound

Question 34

mental subjectivity

Answer 34

The filmmaker can go deeper, beyond the character’s senses and into her
or his mind

ex:internal voices,inner imagination , dreams,hallucinations