Film Ap Midterm
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- Perceptual Subjectivity
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1. Objective
2. Point of View
3. Point of View Shot
4. Sound Perspective - Point of View (P.O.V.)
- A shot taken with camera placed aprox where the character's eyes eyes would be, showing what the character would see
- Mental Subjectivity
- When you hear an intertenal voice reporting the character's inner thoughts and or inner images, representing memory, fantasy, dreams, or hallucinations
- Flashback
- An alteration of story order in which the plot moves back to show events that have taken place ealier than ones already shown
- Segmentation
- The process of of dividing a film into parts for analysis
- Narrative
- A chain of events in a cause-effect relationship occuring in time and space
- Story
- Explicit and inferred events of the narrative uses viewers imagination to fill gaps
- Plot
- Literally evertything seen and heard on screen
- Character Traits
- play a casual role in the narrative
- Character
- Usually provides varying traits which reveal aspects of a character
- Story Duration
- ex: Many years before
- Plot Duration
- ex: Takes place in 4 days
- Screen Duration
- ex: 2hrs 21mins
- Frequency
- In a narrative film, the aspect of temporal manipulation that involves the number of times any story event is shown in the plot
- Exposition
- The portion of the plot that lays out story events and character traits importaint in the opening situation
- Climax
- A high point in the narrative where issues are resolved
- Hierarchy of Knowlage
- Where characters know more than the viewers do and vise versa
- Categorical Documentary
- A type of filmic organization in which the parts treat distinct subsets of a topic. Ex: A film about US might be organized into 50 parts, each devoted to a state
- Frame
- A single image on the strip of film
- Film Gauge
- Width of film in mm. Ex: Normally 35mm, Imax 70mm, Super 8mm, and 16mm
- Frames Per Second
- Standard shooting rate for sound film is 24 fps
- Exhibition
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The process of showing the finished film to audiences. Exhibitors watch a film either in theater or on video.
1. Theatrical
2. Nontheatrical - Distribution
- The process of supplying the finished film to the places where it will be shown such as advertising and trailers
- Ancillary Markets
- Where the majority of the money is made. Ex: Video/Dvd, pay per view, network broadcast, books, graphic novels, action figures, tv shows
- Form
- The general system of relationships among the parts of a film
- Production
- The process of creating the film. Sets, costumes, storyboards, scripts, special effects, and sound
- Producer
- Involved in the financial and organization of film, nurses the project through script process, arranges and hires personel
- Screenwriter
- They prepare the screenplay
- Cinematographer AKA Director of Photography (DP)
- The expert on photographic process, lighting, camera technique. They supervise and also consult with the director on how each scene will be lit and film
- Director
- The person responsible for the interpretive aspects of a stage, film, or television production; the person who supervises the integration of all the elements, as acting, staging, and lighting, required to realize the writer's conception
- Screenplay
- The script of the film
- Storyboard
- A tool used in planning film production, consisting of comice strip like drawings of individual shows or phases of shots with descriptions written below each drawing
- Continuity
- If the film is shot in order of the film or in order of the set location
- Post-production
- Where editing and spotting takes place
- Pre-production
- Where pitching, scriptwriting, casting, financing, and shooting schedule takes place
- Motivation
- The justification given in the film for the presense of an element. This may be an appeal to the viewer's knowlage of the real world, to genre conventions, to narrative causality or to a stylistic pattern within the film
- Spotting
- Where music and effects should go
- Rhetorical Documentary
- A type of filmic organization in which the parts create and support an argument
- Shooting Script
- The final version
- Treatment
- A synopsis of the action
- Master Shot
- It typically records the entire action and dialogue of the scene
- Motif
- An element in the film that is represented in a significant way
- Referential Meaning
- Bare bone plot summary
- Explicit Meaning
- The function within the film's overall form defined by content
- Implicit Meaning
- More abstract meaning that goes beyond what is explicitly stated in the film
- Symptomatic Meaning
- Represents the social ideology of the film
- Ideology
- A relatively coherent system of values, beliefs, or ideas shared by some social group and often taken for granted as natural or inherently true
- Coherence/Unity
- It is ones such criterion. This quality is often concieved as unity, has traditionally been held to be a positive feature of artworks
- Complexity
- A complex film engages our interest on many levels, creates a multiplicity of relations among many seperate formal elements, and tends to create interesting formal patterns
- Originality
- How original the film is