Film Midterm ch 3

horror

A film that seeks to elicit fear for entertainment purposes.

stars

An actor who is famous for their starring, or leading, roles in motion pictures

Persuasive film

A documentary film concerned with presenting a particular perspective on social issues, or with corporate and governmental injustice.

Instructional film

A documentary film that seeks to educate viewers about common interests, rather than persuading them with particular ideas.

Propaganda film

A documentary film that systematically disseminates deceptive or distorted information.

Factual films

A documentary film that, usually, presents people, places, or processes in a straightforward way meant to entertain and instruct without unduly influencing audiences.

musical

A film genre with many songs in the movies. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate "production numbers."

the western

A genre of fiction which tells stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse

science fiction

A genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds

Theme

A shared, public idea, such as a metaphor, an adage, a myth, a familiar conflict, or personality type.

Stop Motion Animation

A technique that allows the cam - era operator to stop and start the camera to facilitate changing the subject while the camera is not shooting.

Computer animation

Also known as Computer generated imagery (CGI), it is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers.

Experimental film

Also known as avant-garde film, a term implying a position in the vanguard, out in front of traditional films. These films are usually about unfamiliar, unorthodox, or obscure subject matter, and ordinarily made by independent (even underground) filmmakers, not studios, often with innovative techniques that call attention to, question, and even challenge their own artifice

Narrative film

Also known as fiction film. A movie that tells a story—with characters, places, and events—that is conceived in the mind of the film's creator. Stories in these films may be wholly imaginary or based on true occurrences, and may be realistic, unrealistic, or both. Compare documentary film.

Direct cinema

An approach to documentary filmmaking that employs an unobtrusive style in an attempt to give viewers as truthful and "direct" an experience of events as possi - ble. Used interchangeably with cinéma vérité

Character types

Conventional characters (e.g., hardboiled detective or femme fatale) typically portrayed by actors cast because of their physical features, acting style, or the history of other roles they have played.

Hybrid film

Films that have a mix of either 2 or more genres. This device is used to attract a wider range of audiences so that film companies can make more money with happy film customers

Genre

The categorization of narrative films by form, content, or both.

generic transformation

The process by which a particular genre is adapted to meet the expectations of a changing society.

Narrative

The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.

Setting

The time and space in which a story takes place.

Story formulas

The way a movie's story is structured—its plot—also helps viewers determine what genre it belongs to.

gangster

a member of an organized group of criminals

presentation

an exhibition or performance, as of a play or film.

Hand-drawn animation

animation technique where each frame is drawn by hand displaying a series of pictures or frames

Documentary film

based almost totally on realism, on location and use real people to tell a story

Pastiche

which is a term used in the literary and film world, can be termed as TV's gift to contemporary philosophy and film. It can be defined as an artistic work in a style that copies that of another artist, work or period.