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Name That Film
Film Form & Types of Meaning
Narrative
Formal Elements
Themes/Motifs
100
Scheisse!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is RUN LOLA RUN, 1998.
100
"A significantly repeated element in a film."
What is a MOTIF?
100
"How the plot presents or implies story information."
What is the NARRATION?
100
"The arrangement of everything that appears in the framing – actors, lighting, décor, props, costume "
What is MISE-EN-SCENE?
100
"The way the content is shaped by the presentation"
What is FORM & COTNENT?
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
"omniscient or "all-knowing" narration - spectator knows more than the characters."
What is UNRESTRICTED NARRATION?
200
"The use of the edges of the film frame to select and to compose what will be visible onscreen."
What is FRAMING?
200
"The end refers to the beginning, but with a change."
What is THE SPIRAL?
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
"Implied and insinuated, but not overt." ""message" of the film, inferred intended meaning."
What is IMPLICIT & EXPLICIT MEANING?
300
"Spectator sees and hears what characters see, hear, think and feel as camera goes "inside" their minds."
What is a SUBJECTIVE NARRATION?
300
"The distance between the foreground and background of a shot which is in sharp focus."
What is DEPTH OF FIELD?
300
"What makes films like Run Lola Run and Persepolis, which were based on texts from different mediums (video game & graphic novel), cinematic?"
What is FILM FORM & FORMAL ELEMENTS?
400
"What are you people doing here? We can't continue the story 'til Tom gets back."
What is THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, 1985.
400
"Explicit and Implicit Meanings are "symptoms" of social ideology."
What is SYMPTOMATIC MEANING?
400
"Everything visible and audibly present in the film before us."
What is PLOT?
400
"an arrangement of key, fill, and backlighting which serves to model the character while maintaining an even illumination in the shot."
What is THREE POINT LIGHTING?
400
"I speculate and theorize about the interpretive (______) effects of the film texts at the same time that I challenge these effects by evoking historical and cultural practices that seem counterinterpellative" - Hamid Naficy
What is HAILING & HAGGLING?
500
"I remember I led a peaceful, uneventful life as a little girl. I loved fries with ketchup, Bruce Lee was my hero, I wore Adidas sneakers and had two obsessions: Shaving my legs one day and being the last prophet of the galaxy."
What is PERSEPOLIS, 2007?
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 general term for all the manipulations of the film strip by the camera in the shooting phase and by the laboratory/post-production in the developing or digital post phase."
What is CINEMATOGRAPHY?
500
"Compare/contrast the female protagonists in 2 of the following films: Run Lola Run, Persepolis, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, The Wizard of Ox."
What is the POWER OF LOOKING & WHO GETS TO LOOK?