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Vocabulary Flashcards

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Plot

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The structure of a story.

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What are the 2 common types of plot

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Causal Plot and Episodic Plot

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Name the sections of a causal plot

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Exposition, complication, climax, and resolution

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Name the sections of an episodic plot

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Exposition, episodes, climax, and resolution.

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Protagonist

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The principal character of a drama

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Antagonist

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The adversary in a drama. Usually in conflict with the protagonist

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Setting

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Place or surrounding and time frame in which a story takes place.

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Flashback

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A cut backwards in time in narrative film, often revealing something about the present.

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Linear plot

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A story told in strict chronological sequence

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Nonlinear plot

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A story told out of chronological order.

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Epic

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A lengthy story comprising a string of complications leading to a number of climaxes while focusing on one person or major event.

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Climax

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The moment of greatest tension when the complications come to a head.

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Exposition

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The background information necessary for the story to unfold.

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Resolution

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The end of the story in which the complications are resolved and the loose ends are tied up.

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Pitch

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How high or low a musical note is.

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Opera

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Opera is a theatrical medium completely or predominantly sung.

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Melody

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A succession of pitches that is heard as a unit. AKA tune.

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What are the three stages of film?

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Preproduction, Production, and Post production

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Orchestration

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The act of assigning instruments or voices to the various musical ideas created by the composer.

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Diegetic

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Music that has a logical source within the narrative of the film. AKA Source music

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Leitmotif

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A recurring musical theme linked to a person, place object, emotion, or an idea.

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Non-diegetic

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Music in film that does not come from a source seen or implied on the screen. IE, no logical source in the drama itself. AKA underscoring.

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Programmatic music

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Instrumental music that tells a story, suggests an image, or evokes a designated mood. The program symphony and the symphonic poem are two examples.

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Orchestrator

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Someone who specializes in orchestration. The suggest instrumental combinations and then write out parts.

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What is Point of View (POV)

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The perspective if the camera eye.

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Wall-to-wall music

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Term for the use of substantial amount of non-diegetic music throughout the entire film.

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Romantic music

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The style of music prevalent in the 19th century used in film scores. Emphasis melody, colorful orchestrations, and wide range of emotions. Emotive, powerful, flexible, and memorable.

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Narrative Film

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The principle product of the modern film industry. Narrative films tell a story as opposed to art films or documentaries.

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Duration

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How long a musical note lasts.

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Range

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Distance between the highest to lowest notes of a melody.

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Interval

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Space between two pitches

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Disjunct melody

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A melody that moves with wide intervals

33
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Conjunct Melody

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A melody that moves by small intervals

34
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Phrase

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A melodic idea with a brief rest (a sentence).

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Cadence

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A resting moment in music. ‘punctuation’

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Motive (in music)

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A small melodic idea that can serve as part of a larger melody or stand on its own.

37
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Theme (in Film)

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The central idea underlaying a given story. If the plot gives us the basic actions of the story, then the theme provides us with its intellectual meaning.

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Tuneful

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A melody that resembles a song and is easily remembered. AKA lyrical

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Theme (in Music)

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a recognizable melody that recurs within a given work, thereby lending shape and coherence to what we hear. usually with special significance to the drama.

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Consonance

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Sound agreeable to the ear.

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Dissonance

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Sounds that clash with each other.

42
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What about pop music, folk tunes, patriotic tunes, and other familiar melodies makes them memorable to the ear?

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prominent melody, strophic form or verse-chorus form.

43
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How brass instruments are used in film music

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Generate power and force. Often heard in marches or fanfares.

44
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Leitmotifs and their function

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They can promote unity. Leitmotivs are sometimes transformed to show a change in the character or object they represent. Can reveal what a character is thinking for example.

45
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Describing Wagner’s theatrical innovations we still observe in today’s showings of films

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Wagner sought to bring together the best elements of all the arts. (literature in the libretto, stunning visual elements in scenery, costumes, and lighting, performing arts both acting and music (both vocal and instrumental).

Innovations that we take for granted today:

A darkened auditorium so that focus was forward toward the stage
Sunken orchestra pit so the audience does not see the musicians
No applause during the performance so no disruption of the spell.
Unique detailed and specific scenery and visual effects
No box seats (every set has equally good sight and sound.

Drama became more important than words. Already establish conventions that translated well into the showing of motion pictures. HIs demand for artistic unity and its corrolary for the all powerful directoru, the Auteur.

use of continuos movement of story,

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Cue

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A passage of non-diegetic music from its entrance to its end.

47
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Strophic form

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A type of song in which each stanza of poetry is sung to the same melody. Verse has same melody, there may be a chorus or bridge between verses.

48
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Period Film

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A movie set in a defined historical era that suggests attention to details of costume, manners, and scenery.

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Homophonic Texture

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A single dominant melody with accompaniment

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