Quiz 1
The .......mode of representation is: The ways in which mise en scene, narrative, editing, cinematography work together to create a plausible 3D filmic world which transports the spectator through the space and time of that world in as seamless a way as possible and in ways which are easy to make sense of.
What is the industrial mode of representation?
Fordist
What type of car production was the standardisation of the film industry based on?
It replaced the primitive mode of representation.
What did the industrial mode of representation replace?
Stars
What became central to the late silent era in 1910?
A system of cutting to maintain continuous and clear narrative action.
Continuity editing relies upon matching screen direction, position, and temporal relations from shot to shot.
What is continuity editing?
The slapstick genre
What became the most popular genre of the late silent period?
Characterisation was central to the move...
What was central to the move from 'attractions' to narrative integration?
The coming of sound
What impoverished cinema and set it back in 1927?
A term used to mean any shots which represent what the character can see through their own eyes: the point of view shot, which is backed up by the eye line match editing technique and the shot-reverse shot pattern. These shots reveal what a character is feeling and thinking often through expressionistic devices like camera movement
What is the cinematic look?
Events organised around a structure of enigma and resolution
An event at the beginning will disrupt the status Quo and the narrative will seek to return it to that equilibrium
Events occur in a logical order: each event has a cause and effect
Most classical narratives are linear
The classic narrative is realist and so are the protagonists within
Events are propelled forward by the actions of characters
Characters must be well rounded; with understandable motivations
Heroes/heroines exist with motivations shared by audience
There is a high degree of closure at the end of a classical narrative
What is a classical narrative structure?