Name That Film & Year
Film Form
Principles of
Narrative
Parameters of Framing
Narration & Types of Meaning
100
Scheisse!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is RUN LOLA RUN, 1998.
100
"A significantly repeated element in a film."
What is a MOTIF?
100
The total world of story action, the "recounted story" that you might tell someone who has not seen the film.
What is the DIEGESIS?
100
"e.g., matte / mask / iris / doors & windows"
What is a FRAME WITHIN A FRAME?
100
When a spectator knows more than the characters.
What is UNRESTRICTED NARRATION?
200
"I look up, I look down... I look up, I look down..."
What is VERTIGO, 1958?
200
"A written outline of that film that breaks it into its major and minor parts.”
What is SEGMENTATION?
200
"How the plot presents or implies story information."
What is NARRATION?
200
"The distance of the camera above the ground, regardless of the angle of framing."
What is HEIGHT OF FRAMING?
200
The historical or cultural context of a film is this type of meaning...
What is REFERENTIAL MEANING?
300
"Cut the deck please. Choose nine cards with your left hand. Three for the past, three for the present, three for the future."
What is CLEO 5 to 7, 1962?
300
"The process whereby the film cues the spectator to compare two or more distinct elements by highlighting similarity."
What is PARALLELISM?
300
"A series of causes that lead to effects which in turn become the cause of further events, and so on."
What is a CAUSAL CHAIN?
300
"In staging, the positioning of figures so that they face the viewer."
What is CHARACTER FRONTALITY?
300
When a spectator sees and hears characters' external behaviour as camera stays "outside" their minds.
What is OBJECTIVE NARRATION?
400
"The orphanage teaches hatred, not politeness. Yet my father raised me well."
What is CACHE, 2005.
400
"This can be a surface of unfamiliar strangeness beneath which lies a structure and set of (perhaps unconscious) motivations."
What is DISUNITY?
400
"Material is presented in the plot but is not part of the story world and cannot plausibly be perceived by the characters."
What is NON-DIEGETIC?
400
"A shallow focus shot in which the area of sharp focus shifts from one plane to another."
What is RACK FOCUS?
400
"Time can also be stretched on screen" - is an element of this...
What is NARRATIVE DURATION?
500
"I just met a wonderful new man. He's fictional but you can't have everything."
What is THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, 1985?
500
"Only against a background of similarity and repetition can we notice this..."
What is DIFFERENCE and VARIATION?
500
"The set of all events in a narrative, both the ones explicitly presented and those the viewer infers."
What is STORY?
500
"A lens of long focal length that affects a scene's perspective by enlarging distant planes and making them seem close to the foreground planes."
What is a TELEPHOTO LENS?
500
When we see what a character sees (optical standpoint, e.g., Point of view shot) or we hear what a character hears (sound perspective).
What is PERCEPTUAL SUBJECTIVITY?
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