TFM 160 FINAL SDSU EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026

TFM 160 FINAL SDSU EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026 Implicit Meaning - Answers Internal Meaning, Implied Explicit Meaning - Answers Literal Meaning, definition Form - Answers Cinematic Language, how the SUBJECT is expressed Content - Answers The actual subject Formal Analysis - Answers Dissecting everything in a film (cinematography, sound, composition, design, movement, performance, editing) Theme - Answers Shared public idea Realism - Answers Actual or real Antirealism - Answers Abstract, Fantastic Cinematic Language - Answers Not of words but of myriad integrated techniques and concepts, connects us to the story while deliberately concealing the means by which it does 1. Manipulate space and time 2. Provide an illusion of movement 3. Movies depend on light - Answers What are the three fundamental principles of film form? Genre - Answers Categorization of films Narrative, documentary, experimental - Answers What are the three categories of movies explored in "Types of Movies" Narrative - Answers Fiction Documentary - Answers Recording reality Experimental - Answers Non commercial, non conforming What are the three basic types of animation? - Answers Hand-drawn, stop-motion, and digital Omniscient Narration - Answers Narrator knows all and can provide anything about ANY character Restricted Narration - Answers Reveals info to the audience only as specific character learns it Protagonist - Answers Primary character who determines the story's structure Antagonist - Answers Person, creature, force, obstructing the protagonist Anti-Hero - Answers Protagonist chasing less noble goals Inciting Incident (Catalyst) - Answers Presents the character with the goal that will drive the rest of the narrative Rising Action - Answers Narrative builds toward a peak, breaking point Crisis - Answers Insurmountable obstacle, narrative peak Climax - Answers Comes when protagonist faces major obstacle Resolution - Answers Third act of falling action. narrative wraps up any loose ties Story - Answers All the explicit and implicit narrative events and the diegesis. IMPLIED EVENTS Plot - Answers Specific actions and events in the order in which they are arranged including non-diegetic elements Diegesis -Total world of the story, -Events, characters, objects, settings, and sound that form the world Diegetic -Elements that make up the world that the story takes place in Non Diegetic -Things we see and hear on the screen that come from outside the world of the story -Score music, titles and credits, third person voice over narrator - Answers What is meant by the diegesis of a story? What is the difference between diegetic and nondiegetic elements in the plot? Story -Implied events and explicitly presented events -all the narrative events that are explicitly presented on-screen -all the events that are implicit or that we infer to have happened but are not explicitly present in the movie Plot -Nondiegetic material and explicitly presented events -the specific actions and events that the filmmakers select and the order in which they arrange this events to effectively convey the narrative to the viewer -includes nondiegetic elements -Specific events and elements are selected and ordered to present the cause-and-effect chain of events that enables the audience to experience the narrative - Answers What is the difference between story and plot? Summary Relationship is most common - Answers Which of the following is the most common relationship of screen duration to plot duration: summary relationship, real time, or stretch relationship? Summary relationship - Answers Screen duration is shorter than plot duration Real time - Answers Screen duration corresponds directly to plot duration Stretch relationship - Answers Screen duration is longer than plot duration What is the difference between surprise and suspense? - Answers Surprise -being taken unaware, can be shocking, and our emotional response to it is generally short lived Suspense -more drawn-out experience -is the anxiety brought on by a partial uncertainty What are the two types of suspense, as explored in class? - Answers Time -- The bomb is set to go off Space -- The killer is in the house Mise-en-Scène - Answers Overall look and feel Composition - Answers Organization, distribution, balance, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of each shot Framing - Answers What moves on screen Kinesis - Answers What moves on the screen Rule of Thirds - Answers Tool used to divide the image with horizontal and vertical lines that make a grid. -The horizontal thirds representing the foreground, middle ground, and background planes and into vertical thirds that break up those planes into further elements. The grid assists the designer and cinematographer in visualizing the overall potential of the height, width, and depth of any cinematic space. Blocking - Answers Director and team must plan positions/movements of actors and cameras for each scene and in rehearsals Deep Space Composition - Answers Visual composition that has information on all 3 planes creating an illusion of depth On-screen space vs. Off-screen space - Answers -Offscreen space is the implied space outside the boundaries of the film frame—ex: a character may be talking to another character who is not visibly on the screen -Onscreen space is the space that is visible within the frame of the image Design -the process by which the look of the settings, props, lighting, and actors is determined -set design, decor, prop selection, lighting, costuming, makeup, hairstyle Composition -the organization, distribution, balance, and general relationship of actors and objects within the space of each shot - Answers What are the two major visual components of mise-en-scène? What is composition? What are the two major elements of composition? Composition is part of the process of visualizing and planning the design of a movie -the organization, distribution, balance, and general relationship of stationary objects and gigues as well as of light, shade, line, and color within the frame. -helps ensure the aesthetic unity and harmony of the movie as well as guide our looking and interpret the characters physical, emotional, and psychological relationships to one another Framing -the border between what the filmmaker wants us to see and everything else -the dimensions of height and width that provide the shape of the movies images Kinesis -movement on screen -the movement of objects and characters within the frame -the apparent movement of the frame itself - Answers What is composition? What are the two major elements of composition? The movement of objects and characters within the frame The apparent movement of the frame itself - Answers What are the two basic types of movement we see on-screen? Three-point Lighting - Answers Perhaps the best known lighting convention in feature filmmaking, a system that employs three sources of light- key light, fill light, and backlight- each aimed from different direction and position in relation to the subject Key Light - Answers Also known as main light or source light. The brightest light falling on the subject. Fill Light - Answers Lighting, positioned at the opposite side of the camera from the key light, that can fill in the shadows created by the brighter key light. Backlight - Answers Lighting, usually positioned behind and in line with the subject and the camera, used to create highlights on the subject as a means of separating it from the background and increasing its appearance of three-dimensionality. Lighting Ratio - Answers The relationship between the balance of illumination and shadow- the balance between the key light and the fill light. Low-key Lighting - Answers Lighting that creates strong contrasts; sharp dark shadows, and an overall gloomy atmosphere. It's contrasts between light and dark imply ethical judgements High-key Lighting - Answers Lighting that produces an image with very little contrast between darks and lights. It's even, flat illumination expresses virtually no opinion about the subject being photographed. Halloween Lighting - Answers Scary lighting as if one is telling a horror story. Deep-space composition - Answers An approach to composition within the frame that places figures in all three planes (background, foreground, middle ground) of the frame, thus creating an illusion of depth Deep-focus cinematography - Answers The process of rendering the figures on all planes of a deep-space composition in focus Shooting Angle - Answers The level and height of the camera in relation to the subject being photographed Eye-level Shot - Answers A shot that is made from the observer's and usually applies the the observer's altitude is neutral toward the subject being photographed