Narrative Cinema, Hollywood and Silent Film Recap

Quiz 1

100

The .......mode of representation is: The ways in which mise en scene, narrative, editing, cinematography work together to create a plausible 3D filmic world which transports the spectator through the space and time of that world in as seamless a way as possible and in ways which are easy to make sense of.

What is the industrial mode of representation?

200

It replaced the primitive mode of representation. 

What did the industrial mode of representation replace?

300

A system of cutting to maintain continuous and clear narrative action. 

Continuity editing relies upon matching screen direction, position, and temporal relations from shot to shot.

 

What is continuity editing?

400

Characterisation was central to the move...

What was central to the move from 'attractions' to narrative integration?

500

A term used to mean any shots which represent what the character can see through their own eyes: the point of view shot, which is backed up by the eye line match editing technique and the shot-reverse shot pattern. These shots reveal what a character is feeling and thinking often through expressionistic devices like camera movement

What is the cinematic look? 

Quiz 2

100

Fordist

What type of car production was the standardisation of the film industry based on? 

200

Stars 

What became central to the late silent era in 1910?

300

The slapstick genre 

What became the most popular genre of the late silent period?

400

The coming of sound

What impoverished cinema and set it back in 1927?

500

1. Events organised around a structure of enigma and resolution

2. An event at the beginning will disrupt the status Quo and the narrative will seek to return it to that equilibrium

3. Events occur in a logical order: each event has a cause and effect

4. Most classical narratives are linear

5. The classic narrative is realist and so are the protagonists within

6. Events are propelled forward by the actions of characters

7. Characters must be well rounded; with understandable motivations

8. Heroes/heroines exist with motivations shared by audience

9. There is a high degree of closure at the end of a classical narrative

What is a classical narrative structure?