Terms Flashcards
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What are the 6 components of a movie
Narrative
Mise-en-scene-staging
Cinematography
Acting
Editing
Sound
what is a narrative
a story-narrative movies are fictional films, as opposed to other movie models, such as documentary or experimental
what is Mise-en-scene
staging or putting on an action or scene
what is cinematography
is the process of capturing moving images on film or digital storage devices
What is Acting
There is no one way to do it, every actor is a master of his or her own technique in creating characters
What is editing
is the selection and arrangement of shots and sounds
What is sound
talking, laughing, singing, music, and the aural effects of objects and settings
what are The 6 Major American Genres
Gangster, Film Noir, Science Fiction, Horror, the Western, The Musical
What is Multiplicity Principle
The marker of a great film is that any given scene will serve multiple purposes-David Thorburn
What is The Blockbuster
-a movie that, whatever it costs, has exceptionally large box office receipts
What is Event Movie
a movie “in which as much commercial importance was attached to the merchandizing of ancillary goods – toys, games, books, clothing, bubble-gum – as to the movies’ performance at the box-office. This merchandizing extended the life of the product and guaranteed the success of its sequels”
What are the Ways of talking about movies
Descriptive: talking about what you see (or hear) before you on screen.
Interpretive: interpreting what you see on screen
Evaluative: you are offering an evaluation of what you are seeing.
What are the different Types of Film
Narrative film:
Documentary film:
Experimental film:
What are the Basic units of film analysis
Frame: “a still photograph that when recorded in rapid succession with
other still photographs creates a motion picture”
Shot: “an unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of the
camera that lasts until it is replaced by another shot by means of a cut or
other transition”
Sequence: “a series of edited shots characterized by an inherent unity of
theme and purpose”
Scene: “a complete unit of plot action taking place in a continuous time
frame in a single location”
What is Classical Hollywood Cinema
- Clarity
- Unity
- Goal-oriented Characters
- Closure
- Unobtrusive (or invisible) Style
Principle 1: Narrative drives all of the artistic choices in a classical film!
Principle 2: Stories are about characters!
What is Cause-and-effect logic
“Plot is a careful and logical working out of the laws of cause and effect.
“The film progresses like a staircase:
Genre Conventions
Story Formulas
Theme
Character Types
Setting
Presentation
Stars
What are the Musical subgenres
Backstage Musicals: most of the action of the film takes
place backstage as singers and dancers performs for an
audience within the story world
Production timeline of a movie
Pre-production 1-2 years
Production 6 week to 6 months
Postproduction 6 months to a year
during forms of Duration
Story duration: “The implied amount of time taken by the entire narrative arc of
a movie’s story – whether explicitly presented on screen”
Plot duration: “The elapsed time of the events within a story that a film chooses
to tell”
Screen duration: “the amount of time that it has taken to present the movie’s
plot-onscreen; that is, the movie’s run time”
what is Kinesis
The aspect of composition that takes into account
everything that moves on the screen”
