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Structural System - Correct Answers Regarding the narrative Motif - Correct Answers A recurring theme, subject, object, or idea Shot - Correct Answers A unit of style. It is an uninterrupted image that ends with transfer to other shot. scene - Correct Answers A unit of narrative. It begins and ends with a clear break in time, space and action. High Speed Cinematography - Correct Answers Ex: Recording a bullett shattering glass. There are hundreds thousands of frames per second in high speed cinematography. Segmentation - Correct Answers Breaking down into component scenes. Diagesis - Correct AnswersWorld of the films story, made of diagetic elements. Story - Correct AnswersEvents that happen in one world as they would have played out if they were real events, Plot - Correct AnswersThe films presentation of the story, order, and duration of events as we experience them Ellipsis - Correct AnswersShortening plot by ommiting story events. that took place between diagetic events. Characters driving. It is cutting out the boring. Backstory - Correct AnswersInformation about characters from before the plot begins. Ex: Miles dad's fall out with him. Narrative Form - Correct Answersa type of filmic organization in which the parts relate to one another through a series of causally related events taking place in time and space. It is the form that the narrative takes. Narration - Correct Answersthe process through which the plot conveys or withholds story information. How is the narrative told? hierarchy of knowledge - Correct Answersa scale or ladder of knowledge (when viewer knows more than all characters, he/she is at top of hierarchy). Unrestricted range vs restricted range. Range of Information - Correct AnswersHow much the spectator knows in relation to the characters. It creates a heirarchy of knowledge Objective Depth - Correct AnswersOnly external behaviors. Make up most of the film. Depth of Story Information - Correct AnswersHow deeply a plot plunges into a characters mental state. Unrestricted Range - Correct AnswersSpectators know more than any single character does. Restricted Range - Correct AnswersSpectator limited to the range of knowledge of one character. Detective dramas are usually like this Mental Subjectivity - Correct AnswersFlashbacks, dreams, and hallucinations. It is playing out within one characters head. Perceptual Subjectivity - Correct AnswersPOV shots Subjective Depth - Correct AnswersAccess to the sight, hearing, and thought of characters. Motivation - Correct AnswersThe justification given in a film for the presence of an element. Mainstream Film Structure - Correct Answers3 act structure. Act one is the set up. Act two is the confrontation and the big twist. Act three is the descending action. Characters in Traditional Hollywood films are... - Correct AnswersUnambiguous and consistent. Television's divergences from filmic storytelling - Correct Answers• precise time constraints • expansive, ongoing plots with no set resolution • character, not action, tends to dominate • exposition spread out • act breaks dictated by ad breaks • recently, more complex narratives yet key traditional traits still there Exposition - Correct AnswersAny part of the film that lays out story events, character traits, mostly at the beginning of the film. Cable-style Prestige Drama - Correct AnswersRecapping avoided, unspoken thematic meaning, attention to detail rewarded. Beat - Correct AnswersPiece of the script that has a basic unit of action or key information. Usually about six beats in an act, at least one beat from each storyline in each act Story Engine - Correct AnswersCharacter + Dramatic need + Obstacles + Conflict = ACTION/LAUGHTER Primary Cable channels with scripted drama and comedy - Correct AnswersHBO, AMC, FX, Showtime, TNT, TBS, USA, Lifetime, OWN, COmedy Central, Freeform Primary streaming services with original scripted shows - Correct AnswersNetfliz, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Apple, Disney Broadcast Networks - Correct AnswersNBC, CBS, Fox, the CW Causality - Correct Answersthe relationship between cause and effect. Linear chain of cause and effect. Mainstream a Film Goal Orientation - Correct AnswersCharacter centered causality. Events caused by characters. McGuffin - Correct AnswersAn arbitrary goal or object used to drive a plot forward Objective Realism - Correct AnswersA trait of art cinema. It shows life isn't near or messy. Tonality - Correct Answersa matter of considering how the light registers on the film Contrast - Correct Answersdifference between the lightest and darkest areas of the frame Exposure - Correct AnswersRegulated how much light passes through the camera. Affected by filters. Filters - Correct AnswersSlice of glass or gelatin in front of the lens of the camera or printer that reduce certain frequencies of light reaching the film. Tinting - Correct Answersaccomplished by dipping the already developed film into a bath of dye; the dark areas remain black and gray, while the lighter areas pick up the color Toning - Correct AnswersWorked in opposite fashion as tinting. Darker areas are colored. Lighter areas are white or faintly colored. rate - Correct AnswersCalculated in frames per second. Short-focal length lens - Correct AnswersAlso knwon as a wide angle lense. It is a lens with less than 35 mm in focal length. It has a relatively wide feild of view. A person moving towards the camera takes less time to take the distance than we thought it would. It distorts the lines near the edge of the frame. Superimposition - Correct Answersthe exposure of more than one image on the same film strip or in the same shot. It creates multiple perspectives. Composite - Correct AnswersSeperately photographed images are blended into a single composition. Selective focus - Correct AnswersChoosing to focus only on one plane and letting the other planes blur. Racking focus/pulling focus - Correct AnswersUsed to switch attention between the foreground and background. One plane is blurred and another one is a little sharp. Deep space - Correct Answersfilmaker staged the actor on different planes regardless whether all of these planes are in focus. Depth of Field - Correct AnswersRange of distances within which objects can be photographed in sharp focus. Zoom lens - Correct AnswersUsed to enlarge some part of the shot. The lense changes framing and focal length. Middle-focal length - Correct AnswersAlso known as a normal lens. The common length for this is 35mm. In high-end cinematography it is 50mm. This type of cinematography avoids noticable perspective distortion. Horizontal and vertical lines are straight. Foreground and background seem to be neither stretched apart nor squashed together. Long-focal length telephoto lens - Correct AnswersAlso known as a telephoto lens. This has a longer lense. They flatten the space along the camera axis. Cues for depth and volume are reduced. Planes are squished togehther. People moving towards the camera takes MORE time to cover the distance. 100mm in length. rear projection - Correct AnswersProject the footage of a setting onto a screen and have the actors filmed in front of it. The whole ensemble could then be filmed from the front. multiple-frame (split-screen) - Correct Answerstwo or more images, each with its own frame dimensions and shape, appear within the larger frame