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Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
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refers to the difficulty of both defining screenwriting as an object, and identifying an object for screenwriting.
What is the object problem?
100
applying one’s norms to another subculture;
What is ethnocentrism?
100
Pleasure ONLY in watching others; eg. a peeping Tom
What is voyeurism?
100
universal mythological types; literary tropes;
What is an archetype?
100
Common in all genres of action, there is a key scene where some essential unknown information comes to light as a discovery.
What is a discovery/revelation?
200
Divisions in filmmaking that make it difficult to distinguish between. Divisions occur between concept and execution.
What is separation issue?
200
As having a highly individualized style of artistic expression. That masterpieces of filmic art have been dismissed leaving a great range of screenwriters out of film history.
What is Auteur?
200
Objectification of people as objects; not as subjects;
What is scopophilia?
200
External to one’s social world; often dysfunctional or conflicted at best; more rigid than social types;
What is a stereotype?
200
is the point at which the author of the action begins the plot, in relation to the larger story of a complete action.
What is point of attack?
300
The abstract truth that is made concrete by the action
What is theme?
300
Woman as erotic object of male characters; AND Woman as desirable object for male spectators;
What is male gaze?
300
Encountered by anyone in a culture; within; open-ended, provisional, flexible, determine “boundaries of normalcy”
What is a social type?
300
cause some new obstacle that has so prominent an impact that it will begin the dramatic conflict.
What is inciting incident?
400
“Montage is a rapid sequence of brief scenes or images that underscores the story or tells the viewer that time in the story is passing.”
What is montage?
400
a pre-social construct, “genetic,” fixed, born this way; Presume that types function in dominant manner
What is presumption?
400
Includes a story’s season, geographic location, physical environment and historical period
What is world?
400
Types belong as member of culture/group/social segment;
What is a member type?
500
Includes the cover, opening, montage, flashback and closing
What is the components of a script?
500
“… an approach in media and communication studies [that] refers to ideas of selection and salience. “ … is to select some aspects of a perceived reality and make them more salient in a communicating text.” (Maras, p.10)
What is frame analysis?
500
creates information; establishes “… perspective, boundaries or imagery.” intensifies mood; intrigues the senses
What is contrast?
500
The change or growth in a character
What is character arc?
500
refers to the antagonist relationship between what is desired or needed, and what is in fundamental opposition to that need or desire. Conventional conflicts pit man against himself, against an antagonist, against society, nature or an environment.
What is conflict?
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