Story & Plot
Everything visibly and audibly present in a film
What is Plot?
In Rashomon, what is the temporal frequency of the scene in the woods?
What is 4 times?
True or False: A plot’s withholding of effects is most disruptive at the end of the film?
What is true?
A mode of narration in which the audience knows, sees, and hears more than any of the characters can
What is omniscient narration?
Number of VFX Shots featured in Prof. Hossain's 2019 feature film After We Leave?
What is 80 VFX shots?
All events in a film (inferred and explicitly presented)
What is Story?
What is an example of non-straightforward temporal ordering in Rashomon?
What is the three days? (after the scene of the crime)
What are the usual agents of cause and effect?
What are characters?
A mode of narration in which the audience knows, sees, and hears a limited amount (possibly limited to a single character’s perspective)
What is restricted narration?
Director of the 1950 film Rashoman
Who is Akira Kurosawa?
The total world of the story action in film
What is diegesis?
Using Rashomon as an example, what is the difference between story duration, plot duration, and screen duration?
What is __________? (Alex decides)
Given an incident, what causes spectators to hypothesize what might have caused it or what it might in turn cause?
What is causal motivation?
In Hitchcock’s anecdote, what mode of narration does he argue creates suspense?
What is omniscient narration?
Named with a Latin phrase meaning, “in the middle of things”, this narrative device brings the audience into a series of actions that has already started
What is in medias res?