a term describing a script that never gets out of development.
What is Development Hell?
100
only is a few theaters, usually in major cities
What is Limited distribution?
100
Individuals who make additional sound effects in a soundstage, usually every day sounds of foot steps, doors closing, in contrast to special sound effects
What is a Foley Artist?
100
Myths, Conventions and Iconography
3 Principles of Genre
BONUS POINTS: DEFINE ALL 3
100
1. What you like or don’t like is different from what is good or bad.
2. Heirarchy: knowledge -> appreciation -> respect -> love
What is Personal Taste vs Critical Judgement?
200
1. It must be immediately accessible and easily understood
2. It must readily translate into visual terms
3. It must intersect with other discourses (transmedia, essentially)
What is High Concept?
200
start in some cities to gain word of mouth, then expand?
What is Platform distribution?
200
– gets financing for the film, or lends his name and reputation to the film to help it raise money.
What is Executive Producer?
200
Film, Non-Filmic, Extra Filmic
What is 3 types of intertextuality?
DOUBLE POINTS if you can define all 3 and give examples.
200
plot stops and character or theme is built through music
1. i.e. “Moon River” scene in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
What is a lyrical interlude?
300
the combination of above and below the line costs.
What is Negative Cost?
300
wide release on opening weekend on 2000+ screens.
What is Saturation distribution?
300
makes the script into a movie
Can be independent, assigned by the studio, or work for the studio.
What is the Producer?
300
1. Imitating the formal strategies or content of previous texts with no added meaning or sense of satire/parody.
2. The imitation is meant to recall these past genres and styles; use the meaning/feeling from the original.
3. The point is the reference itself, not a new meaning (as in intertextualtiy)
What is Pastiche?
300
Increased Sophistication of consumers and filmmakers; Censorship Loosening; New Technology
What is some reasons for changes in Postclassical films?
400
creative talent who negotiate salaries such as stars, directors, and prominent technicians such as cinematographers and production designers.
What is Above the Line?
400
release in theaters and on-demand, etc.
What is Multiplatform ( a new distribution?)
400
the amount of film exposed divided by the amount used in the finished film.
What is Shooting Ratio?
400
1. So many determinants to any text from all different spheres of cultural thrown together in a collage
2. Tonal shifts; multiple genres; multiple styles
3. Becomes a fractured, confused experience; illogical juxtapositions
4. The cult of heterogeneity
a. Multitasking, not unity
What is Schizophrenic Experience of Postmodernism?
400
Complexity, Coherence, Intensity of Affect, Originality, Personality