Lecture 2: Forms

Question 1

Form is what

Answer 1

Concept and Narrative

Question 2

The overall system of relations that we can perceive among the elements in the whole film is known as what?

Answer 2

Form

Question 3

“Form equals ____.”

Answer 3

Content

Question 4

The topics that constitute the film’s story is known as what?

Answer 4

Narrative Elements

Question 5

What are the narrative elements in “Wizard of Oz?”

Answer 5

• Dorothy Dreams of a tornado
• Goes to Oz and has adventures
• Wakes up in Kansas

Question 6

The way the camera moves, the patterns of colors, and the use of music is known as what?

Answer 6

Set of Stylistic Elements

Question 7

Narrative + Stylistic elements equals what?

Answer 7

Unity

Question 8

In “Wizard of Oz,” what are two examples of narrative development linked to stylistic pattering?

Answer 8

• Kansas (B&W)

- Oz (Color)

Question 9

____ of the camera also call our attention to story action. And the ____ serves to describe certain characters and situations. It’s the overall process of relationships among the various elements that males up the form.

Answer 9

Movements; Music

Question 10

“Because we have a history, we have ____…

Answer 10

Expectations

Question 11

A tradition, a dominant style, a popular
form. These common traits are usually
called ____.

Answer 11

Conventions

Question 12

There is a difference between emotional responses to the film by the ____ and emotional responses portrayed by an ____ in the film.

Answer 12

Viewer; Actor

Question 13

Delayed fulfillment of an expectation is called what?

Answer 13

Suspense

Question 14

All a matter of ____: there is no set formula to create correct emotional responses.

Answer 14

Context

Question 15

Name the four types of meaning in form.

Answer 15

Referential, Explicit, Implicit, and Symptomatic

Question 16

____ ____ refers to things or places invested with significance in the real world.

Answer 16

Referential meaning

Question 17

____ ____ is defined by the context and function within the film’s overall form.

Answer 17

Explicit meaning

Question 18

A summary or interpretation is known a what?

Answer 18

Implicit meaning

Question 19

____ ____ is also abstract and general. It is considered a social ideology.

Answer 19

Symptomatic meaning

Question 20

What are the five principles of film form?

Answer 20

Function, Similarity and Repetition, Difference and Variation, Development, and Unity/Disunity

Question 21

If form in cinema is the overall interrelation among various systems of elements, we can assume that every element has one or more ____.

Answer 21

Function

Question 22

____ is basic to our understanding of any film.

Answer 22

Repitition

Question 23

A term to describe formal repetitions in scenes, settings, actions, objects, stylistic devices is known as what?

Answer 23

Motif

Question 24

The Oz counterparts to Kansas characters are slightly ____, more exciting and dramatic. A film cannot rely on repetitions alone.

Answer 24

Different

Question 25

____ constitutes a pattering of similar and differing elements. (an outline of events that occur from beginning to end).

Answer 25

Development

Question 26

When all of the relationships we perceive withing a film are clear and economically interwoven, we call it ____.

Answer 26

Unity

Question 27

The ____ has the task of satisfying or cheating the expectations prompted by the film as a whole.

Answer 27

End

Question 28

A chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurring in time and space is called what?

Answer 28

A narrative

Question 29

The distinction between plot and story is called what?

Answer 29

Discourse

Question 30

We can think about the differences between story and plot from two perspectives: the ____ (filmmaker) and the ____ (viewer).

Answer 30

Storyteller; Perceiver

Question 31

All the events in a narrative is known as what?

Answer 31

A story

Question 32

From the ____ ____, events can be presented directly, hint at events that are not presented, or simply ignore events.

Answer 32

Storyteller's standpoint

Question 33

Everything visibly and audibly present in the film is known as what?

Answer 33

Plot

Question 34

The ____ _____. - Summarize the story - Tell the plot

Answer 34

Story-plot Distinction

Question 35

What are the three aspects of narrative?

Answer 35

Causality, Time, Space

Question 36

____ is known as characters are usually the agents of cause and effect by triggering and reacting the certain events.

Answer 36

Causality

Question 37

____ ____ involves the planting of information in a previous scene.

Answer 37

Causal Motivation

Question 38

As we watch film, we construct ____ ____ based on what the plot presents.

Answer 38

Story time

Question 39

Length of the movie is known as what?

Answer 39

Screen duration

Question 40

Sum of all story durations is known as what?

Answer 40

Plot duration

Question 41

Concentration on a short, relatively cohesive time span or highlighting significant stretches of time from a period of many years is known as what?

Answer 41

Story duration

Question 42

Plot and story can manipulate ____.

Answer 42

Space

Question 43

The ways the causes and effects create a | change in the character’s development is known as what?

Answer 43

Change in knowledge

Question 44

Development is brought to a high point is known as what?

Answer 44

Climax

Question 45

A moment-by-moment process that guides us in building the story out of the plot is known as what?

Answer 45

Narration

Question 46

information about what characters say and do only, their external behavior (not psychological) is known as what?

Answer 46

Objective narration

Question 47

shots taken from the | character’s standpoint is known as what?

Answer 47

Point of view shot

Question 48

hear sounds as | character would hear them is known as what?

Answer 48

Sound perspective

Question 49

we understand the | character’s mind is known as what?

Answer 49

Mental subjectivity

Question 50

A specific agent who purports to be telling us | the story is known as what?

Answer 50

The narrator