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Narrative Design
Performance
Film Trivia (Part 1)
Film Trivia (Part 2)
Final Jeopardy
100
A film's narration manipulates the audience's degree and the depth of this.
What is knowledge.
100
Not all films try to achieve this with the performances of their actors.
What is realism.
100
This Austrian-born American filmmaker directed "Double Indemnity."
Who is Billy Wilder.
100
Cary Scott in "All that Heaven Allows" first meets Ron Kirby when he's doing this at her house.
What is gardening/landscaping.
100
This storytelling paradigm involves a goal-oriented protagonist, a three-act structure, continuity editing, and a Judeo-Christian value system.
What is the Hollywood Model.
200
This lays out the backstory and the initial situation of a film.
What is exposition.
200
A film performance can be located on a continuum of this.
What is stylization.
200
The film "Fruitvale Station" is based on this real-life person's final day.
Who is Oscar Grant.
200
In "Days of Heaven," the Farmer teaches Linda how to play this instrument.
What is the piano.
200
Films fall somewhere on a spectrum between these two aesthetic styles.
What are formalism and realism.
300
In a narrative film, this is the aspect of temporal manipulation that involves the time span presented in the plot.
What is duration.
300
This Soviet version of "typecasting" expected an actor to portray a typical representative of a social class.
What is typage.
300
In the film "Source Code," Captain Colter Stevens has this job in the U.S. Army.
What is an aviation pilot.
300
This actor plays Kyle Reese in "The Terminator."
Who is Michael Biehn.
300
This term connotes the appearance of truth.
What is verisimilitude.
400
B&T cite "Pulp Fiction," "Out of Sight" and "Groundhog Day" as examples of broken timelines that play with this aspect of narration.
What is story order or temporal order.
400
These define an actor's on-and-off-screen personas. Charlie Sheen's are basically one and the same.
What is onscreen/offscreen mythology.
400
In "Double Indemnity," Phyllis Dietrichson's husband works here.
What is the oil fields in Long Beach.
400
This is the only original song contained in "Moulin Rouge!"
What is "Come What May" (or the lovers' secret song).
400
This scientific term is often called the physiological foundation of cinema.
What is persistence of vision.
500
This term applies to when a filmmaker goes deeper, beyond a character's senses and into her or his mind.
What is mental subjectivity.
500
The Stanislavsky system of acting became known as this in America.
What is The Method.
500
The narcoleptic in "Moulin Rouge!" is from this country.
What is Argentina.
500
The final lines spoken in "The Terminator."
What is "He said there's a storm coming in" / "I know."
500
This occurs within a text when there is a replication of images or concepts referring to the textual whole.
What is mise-en-abyme.