ART 199 - Chapter I
The phase of production where the music is added to the film is:
Assembly or post-production.
Define film story
All the events in the narrative both explicit and inferred
Describe Film Form principle "Unity and Disunity"
All the relationships come together (Unity) or they don't (Disunity)
Lighting can create what?
Composition by directing our attention and can also create texture.
The reason older films flicker is because they were shot at a rate below _____?
Critical flicker fusion - It is when a beam of light is broken more than 50 times a second, the viewer perceives a continuous beam of light without flickers known as (Apparent Motion).
Describe Film Form principle "Difference and Variation"
Changes and variations can point out differences of place, activities, etc. It can add contrast to better tell a story.
What are the five principles of Film Form?
Function, Similarity and Repetition, Difference and Variation, Development, Unity and Disunity.
Describe Film Form principle "Function"
Every element play one or more roles within the film system. These can be both stylistic and narrative.
What is Diageses?
Everything in the world of the story action.
Define film plot
Everything visibly and audibly present in the film (Diagetic and non-diagetic)
Describe Film Form principle "Similarity and Repetition"
Having motifs and parallelism. Things can also cue us to remember plot and emotion.
What is Story/Plot duration?
How long the story is that can be more or less than the actual screen duration.
What is temporal frequency?
How many times you see something on the screen.
What are conventions?
How we expect things to play out based on our experiences.
Describe how films are released today compared to the past
Films open in wide release as opposed to smaller and local openings
What's the first rule of mise-en-scene?
Don't get caught up in judging by reality. (Extra note: Our perception of reality varies)
The five principles of film form are general rules that can do what?
Drive a narrative
Mise-en-scene settings
Locale, design, color, size of set, props, costume, make-up, lighting, acting, etc.
Citizen Kane used High Key or Low Key Lighting?
Low Key Lighting
"Difference and Variation" can be stylistic and?
Part of the narrative
In distribution, theatre owners can keep a variable what?
Percentage of the box office
Phases of a Movie
Production / Distribution / Exhibition
What are the different types of meaning and explain each one?
Referential (You need to get the reference) / Explicit (No interpretation needed) / Symptomatic (Implies something about a general set of values or ideologies - broad interpretation) / Implicit (Implied or interpreted)
Phases within production
Scriptwriting/Funding, Preparation for filming, and Shooting/Assembly
What is temporal order?
Shuffling events within the plot
What is parallelism?
Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
In this type of production system, each project is considered unique and teams are brought together to work for just that one project.
Independent Production
What is existing locale?
It already existed
What is screen duration?
Total screen time of the film
True or False: Phases in production overlap?
True
What is systematic disunity?
When a film constantly tries to be so disharmonious.
A system where studios owned all the equipment and controlled all the phases of production. Consisted of long term contracts with workers and disappeared in the 1960s.
Studio System
Name the two production modes
Studio System & Independent Production
Another word for artistic?
Stylized
What is a shadow cast?
The shadows an object projects.
Mise-en-scene time includes?
duration of shots, rhythm between shots, and movement within shots.
What is a motif?
an important element that is repeated throughout a film
Mise-en-scene
the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play / Artsy stuff / things the director directly controls
What are "Narrative Elements"?
this refers to the film's actual story
What are "Stylistic Elements"?
this refers to things outside the film's narrative like camera angles, color, music, etc.
Difference between High Key and Low Key Lighting?
(High Key) creates flatness and low contrast. (Low Key) creates depth.
What's the difference between mental subjectivity and perceptual subjectivity?
(Mental) You are inside the character's mind. (Perceptual) You are seeing it through their eyes / other senses.
What's the difference between unrestricted and restricted narration?
(Unrestricted) is knowing more than any of the characters and (Restricted) is only knowing as much as the main character
Mise-en-scene space includes?
Movement, color differences, balance and variations in size.
Examples of non-diagetic things?
Musical scores/soundtracks that can't be heard by the characters.
Is a Narrator the same thing as a narrative?
NO
Describe Film Form principle "Development"
Think "progression" - It's what makes the story progress.
Are characters emotions considered a type of film form?
Yes / True / Amen
Interpretation should be re-inforeced through?
The entire style of form (Stylistic elements, colors, etc). Don't be a vacuum when you interpret film and its form.
What is the film exposition?
The part that explains the opening
Define film narrative
A chain of events in cause-effect relationship occurring in time and space. Generally, what you see on the screen and not things you assumed happened or infer.
What is the process of the theatre owners bidding for each film released?
Distribution
What do our brains try to naturally do with film?
It naturally tries to unify or find form in everything.
What is constructed locale?
It was constructed or made for the film
Two types of film soundtracks and describe them:
Optical (Obsolete) and Magnetic (Industry Standard)
What are the major features of lighting?
Quality, Direction, Source and Color
What is attached/shading?
This is the shadow an object casts on itself because of it's surface or features.
