Mediums
Narrative structures
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Ideology
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What is the difference between broadcast and narrowcast television?
Broadcast is more associated with TV 1, television attempted to appeal to as wide of an audience as possible. Narrowcast is more associated with TV 2, television was marketed to niche audiences
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What is the traditional narrative stucture of films?
Stable situation 1-- disruption -- stable situation 2
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What is an epitext?
distanced elements, located outside of the book (interviews, conversation, media ) or private communications (letters, diaries, other)
100
What role does a narrative ending have in determining the ideology of a film?
it often provides a comment on a larger social issue or presents a moral lesson
100
What is the difference between eXistenZ and tranCendenZ?
tranCendez is supposedly the virtual reality game that the characters are playing in the real world, eXistenZ is the game that they're playing within their virtual reality
200
At a formal level, how do documentaries tend to signal their realism?
hand-held and shaky camera, grainy footage, observational style (fly on the wall)
200
What are episodic and serial structures?
They are the two structuring influences that shape television narratives. Episodic plot structures are solved within an episode, serial plot structures extend over the series or season
200
What is transmedia storytelling?
integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertianment experience… ideally, each medium makes its own uniue contribution to the unfolding story
200
What does it mean for a text to be Orientalist?
orientalism is the process by which people deal with the Orient—by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, orientalism as a western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient
200
What was unique about the camera position in the short documentary film Growing Up?
the entire film was filmed from above in an overhead shot
300
Experimental films tend to be formalist. What does this mean?
they explore formal questions specific to the medium, concerned with problems of form over content
300
How do characters determine narrative stucture?
narratives are presented from their point of view and they control the sequential order of events
300
What is participatory culture?
a culture in which private persons (the public) do not act as consumers only, but also as contributors or producers (encouraged with the increase of internet activity)
300
What advances define first wave feminism?
1880-1920s, legal advances in public spheres
300
How was Fast Film made?
the filmmaker folded up individual film frames and filmed them in stop motion
400
What are at least two different modes of documentary filmmaking?
expository, observational/cinema verite, self-reflexive
400
What factors are important to the narrative structure of a video game?
binary roles of good and evil, player as active participant, resolution/win condition
400
What are the three main purposes of serial narratives?
promote themselves, promote products like them, and promote the medium
400
What are two main issues that post-feminism has with earlier branches of feminism?
1) upset at 1/2nd wave for being so focused on white, middle class women 2) believes patriarchy doesn’t exist anymore, we don’t need to care about the things that the first and second wavers cared about because women are equal now
400
In what way does television flow encourage viewers to think about New Girl and Mindy Project together?
because they are shown on the same night, viewers might read them in conversation with each other, especially considering their similar messages about postfeminism and the way they both handle and deal with relationships
500
What is fragmentation and how does it shape TV as a medium?
segmentation and discontinuity that characterizes television texts and television as a medium form TV is made with an assumption of fragmentation-- there are gaps within the narrative, between episodes, between seasons. It is made with an assumption that the storyworld will be split apart and experienced in fragments
500
Why do experimental films tend to be non-narrative? What is the point of this?
the lack well-defined characters or plot unsettles the viewer from passive narrative viewing, encourages them to think more actively and critically
500
Name at least 3 traits of serial narratives
expanded time, complicated characters and plots, reversals, partial answers, delays, snares, cliffhangers
500
How has radio worked as an agent of social change?
Marginalized groups have increasingly used it as a medium through which to express their ideas and be heard. For example, Native American groups have used radio to bring attention to social injustices enacted on their population
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How does the Blair Witch website contribute to the supposed realism of the film?
by featuring things such as timelines, the mythology, news reports, artifacts, diaries, etc., the website encourages viewers to interpret the storyworld as real
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