Chapter 1
This concept focuses on the relationship between culture and the movies and examines how movies influence and are influenced by social conditions and attitudes
What is cultural analysis?
These are known as anything that an actor directly uses in a film
What are props?
This concept is defined as the subject of an artwork or what the work is about
What is content?
A movie series that is adapted from a licensed work, like the Harry Potter or Marvel Cinematic Universe films
What is a franchise?
This is the process of capturing moving images on film or a digital storage device
What is Cinematography?
This concept dissects the cinematography, sound, design, etc. to focus on the movie meaning that is being expressed through narrative information
What is formal analysis?
Of the four primary components to mise-en-scène, this component is also known as movement or the blocking on-screen
What is kinesis?
This concept is the means by which the subject of an artwork is expressed and experienced
What is form?
This is the largest format of film for movies
What is IMAX?
The range of tones from pure white to the darkest black, the distinguishing aspect of a black and white film
What is Tonality?
This type of meaning is one that lies beneath the surface of what is presented in a movie, forming a connection or association for the viewer.
What is explicit meaning?
This rule breaks the frame into three horizontal and vertical sections, resulting in a grid
What is the Rule of Thirds?
A technique that makes different lines of action appear to be occurring simultaneously
What is parallel editing?
These people are referred as the most powerful producers of the Hollywood golden age
Who are the movie moguls?
Movies have been shot on this since the 1880's, and is still used to this day but has become drastically more uncommon now
What is Film Stock?
Films are made of these: An unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of a motion-picture camera.
What are shots?
This is the mood or meaning created by having an intentional imbalance between the subjects
What is compositional stress?
An approach to narrative filmmaking that employs naturalistic performances and dialogue, and story lines that portray the everyday lives of ordinary people
What is realism?
The foundation for collective bargaining in the film industry
What was the Studio Basic Agreement?
A variable aspect of film that affects how sensitive film stock is to light
What is Speed?
This is an approach to style and storytelling that values expressive form over unobtrusive form associated with realism
(Hint: highly stylized and distinctive camera work, editing, and lighting)
What is formalism?
Seeing Truman in the background of his own scene while at his office desk is an example of:
(Hint: think of the 4 components of mise-en-scène)
What is composition?
Film style that emphasizes imaginative or abstract storytelling that departs from realistic depictions with incorporations of fantastic or surreal elements
What is antirealism?
This reason made the government break up the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC) in 1915
What is Monopoly?
On a film production one of sometimes recording of a predetermined shot. Multiple shots of a take may be taken to remedy mistakes or to provide the editor with varied performances, blocking, or camera movements
What is a Take?