"Watching" Movies & Meaning
What is the difference between passive and active viewership?
Watching without critical thinking vs. watching with critical thinking.
!!DOUBLE POINTS!! Describe the difference between linear and nonlinear.
Arranged in chronological order vs. out of chronological order.
What are the four elements of mise-en-scène?
Setting, human figures, lighting, and composition.
What is the most basic type of cinematographic transition?
Cut.
To what does "auteur" translate?
Author
Content, form, aesthetic, and meaning.
Name the three types of character conflicts.
Character v. Character/Self/Force.
!!DOUBLE POINTS!! What are the three units of cinematography?
Frame, shot, scene.
What is the name of the key editing technique defined as the patterning of film edits to music?
Rhythmic editing.
Why is a director most often credited as the "auteur" of a film?
Responsible for a film's vision.
What are the four objectives of textual analysis?
Expressive meaning, referential meaning, themes, and politics.
What are the three cinematic elements most likely to be non-diegetic?
Score, Credits, Unfigured narrator.
What are the four elements of figure design?
Costuming, makeup, hairstyling, and props.
Define "foley."
The creation and addition of sound effects to film.
!!DOUBLE POINTS!! Describe the differences between name actors and character actors, as well as between typecast and against-type.
Repetition v. variation; cast for repetition v. variation.
!!DOUBLE POINTS!! Name the four types of cinematic references.
Contextual, intratextual, intertextual, and extratextual.
What are the three most common types of alternate narrative structures?
Episodic, Multi-Part, Frame.
What are the two different ways that cinematographic shot types are typically defined?
By distance from the focal subject or by function.
What element of a film's soundtrack is most privileged during mixing and how is that element often manipulated in post?
Dialogue; ADR/Looping.
What are the three criteria defined by Andrew Sarris to determine if a director is an auteur.
Technical competence, distinct personality, recurring themes.
Name three early cinema pioneers (late-1800s to early-1900s).
Méliès, Lumières, Guy-Blaché, Muybridge, Edison, etc.
What are the four cinematic standards of most narrative films?
Cause and effect, character-centric, goal-oriented, resolution.
Describe three clips we watched related to either cinematography or mise-en-scène and describe what each exemplified.
Nightmare on Elm Street, Nine, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, X2, Halloween, The Graduate
!!DOUBLE POINTS!! Describe the Kuleshov Effect and the four different shots used in the original video.
Visual associations; "Normal" man, Soup, Baby, Erotic woman.
Describe how the theory of structural auteurism could be applied to analyzing star performance.
The codes of an actor could be analyzed. "Jennifer Lopez" v. Jennifer Lopez.