Test 1

Question 1

Poetics

Answer 1

Form forward way of looking at an artwork. Understands film as a constructed artifact resulting from a process of selection and combination.

Question 2

Form

Answer 2

Mediums set of constructive principles

Question 3

Style

Answer 3

Selection and combination of formal options

Question 4

Content

Answer 4

Subject matter

Question 5

Analysis

Answer 5

The objective translation of a film into component parts to understand its workings

Question 6

Literal meaning

Answer 6

The end is good shot of our efforts to understand and describe the literal content of the film

Question 7

Explicit meaning

Answer 7

The direct message of the work expressed via its style

Question 8

Implicit meaning

Answer 8

The subjective and associational consideration of abstract ideas

Question 9

Symptomatic meaning

Answer 9

An unintentionally communicated belief

Question 10

Mimesis

Answer 10

Idea that art can reflect reality

Question 11

Formalism

Answer 11

Approach to style which values expressive form. Anti realism

Question 12

Affective qualities

Answer 12

Emotional and Kinetic

Question 13

Plot

Answer 13

Order of events in which the story is presented

Question 14

Dualism

Answer 14

Obvious good and bad characters, stark contrasts and tensions

Question 15

Augmentation

Answer 15

Frequent occurances that allow for development of characters/sets

Question 16

Freytags Pyramid

Answer 16

Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement. Linear narrative structure focusing on the destination not the journey

Question 17

Causality

Answer 17

Logic of the story. Can either be cause and effect or episodic. Teleological or not.

Question 18

Design

Answer 18

Visual means by which a story’s physical world is organized. Design functions are to generate aesthetic interest, create mood, evoke subjectivity, special and temporal mapping, and to express meaning.

Question 19

Elements of design.

Answer 19

Setting, decor, props, lighting, costume makeup and hair.

Question 20

Emotional architecture

Answer 20

Characters subjective experience is externalized through design

Question 21

Story duration

Answer 21

Time that the entire narrative act is implied to have taken

Question 22

Plot duration

Answer 22

Time that the events explicitly shown on-screen are implied to have taken

Question 23

Screen duration

Answer 23

Run-time

Question 24

Real time

Answer 24

Actual time during which something takes place. In real time, screen duration and plot duration are the same

Question 25

Shot

Answer 25

The product of one uninterrupted run of the camera

Question 26

Summary relationship

Answer 26

Screen duration is shorter than plot duration

Question 27

Stretch relationship

Answer 27

A time relationship where screen duration is longer than plot duration

Question 28

Causal transformation

Answer 28

Movement is not linear but circular. Equilibrium, disruption, repair, resolution. The original state is transformed and recapitulated at the end. About the journey

Question 29

Narrative access

Answer 29

How do we receive information

Question 30

Narrative perspective

Answer 30

Whose experience is privileged

Question 31

Subjective perspective

Answer 31

Perspective of the wild is affected by the emotions of the character

Question 32

Oppugner

Answer 32

Way in which an antagonist questions the value systems of the protagonist

Question 33

Classical mise en scene

Answer 33

World unfolds very organically. Adheres to truth of fictional world