TFM 160 SDSU Exam #1 Questions and Answers Fully Solved
Implicit Meaning - Answers An association, connection, or inference that a viewer makes on the basis of
the given (explicit) meaning conveyed by the story and form of a film. Closest to our everyday sense of
the word meaning.
Explicit Meaning - Answers Everything that a movie presents on its surface; the obvious meaning of the
movie.
Shot - Answers unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of a motion-picture camera-
that allow visual elements to rearrange themselves and the viewer's perspective itself to shift w/o any
composition; cannot exceed the length of the film stock in the camera
Cut - Answers A direct change from one shot to another; that is, the precise point at which shot A ends
and shot B begins
Editing - Answers joining together of discrete shots gives movies the power to choose what the viewer
sees and how that viewer sees it at any given moment; editor combines and coordinates individual shots
into a cinematic whole
Close-Up - Answers A shot that often shows a part of the body filling the frame—traditionally a face, but
possibly a hand, eye, or mouth.
Fade In/Fade Out - Answers Transitional devices in which a shot fades in from a black field on black-and-
white film or from a color field on color film, or fades out to a black field (or a color field).
Low Angle Shot - Answers A shot that is made with the camera below the action and that typically places
the observer in a position of inferiority.
Cutting On Action - Answers A continuity editing technique that smoothes the transition between shots
portraying a single action from different camera angles. The editor ends the first shot in the middle of a
continuing action and begins the subsequent shot at approximately the same point in the matching
action
Protagonist - Answers The primary character whose pursuit of the goal provides the structural
foundation of a movie's story
Form - Answers The means by which a subject is expressed. The form for poetry is words; for drama, it is
speech and action; for movies, it is pictures and sound; and so on.
Content - Answers The actual subject matter and "meat" of the movie.
Motif - Answers A recurring visual, sound, or narrative element that imparts meaning or significance
Theme - Answers A shared, public idea, such as a metaphor, an adage, a myth, or a familiar conflict or
personality type
Implicit Meaning - Answers An association, connection, or inference that a viewer makes on the basis of
the given (explicit) meaning conveyed by the story and form of a film. Closest to our everyday sense of
the word meaning.
Explicit Meaning - Answers Everything that a movie presents on its surface; the obvious meaning of the
movie.
Shot - Answers unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of a motion-picture camera-
that allow visual elements to rearrange themselves and the viewer's perspective itself to shift w/o any
composition; cannot exceed the length of the film stock in the camera
Cut - Answers A direct change from one shot to another; that is, the precise point at which shot A ends
and shot B begins
Editing - Answers joining together of discrete shots gives movies the power to choose what the viewer
sees and how that viewer sees it at any given moment; editor combines and coordinates individual shots
into a cinematic whole
Close-Up - Answers A shot that often shows a part of the body filling the frame—traditionally a face, but
possibly a hand, eye, or mouth.
Fade In/Fade Out - Answers Transitional devices in which a shot fades in from a black field on black-and-
white film or from a color field on color film, or fades out to a black field (or a color field).
Low Angle Shot - Answers A shot that is made with the camera below the action and that typically places
the observer in a position of inferiority.
Cutting On Action - Answers A continuity editing technique that smoothes the transition between shots
portraying a single action from different camera angles. The editor ends the first shot in the middle of a
continuing action and begins the subsequent shot at approximately the same point in the matching
action
Protagonist - Answers The primary character whose pursuit of the goal provides the structural
foundation of a movie's story
Form - Answers The means by which a subject is expressed. The form for poetry is words; for drama, it is
speech and action; for movies, it is pictures and sound; and so on.
Content - Answers The actual subject matter and "meat" of the movie.
Motif - Answers A recurring visual, sound, or narrative element that imparts meaning or significance
Theme - Answers A shared, public idea, such as a metaphor, an adage, a myth, or a familiar conflict or
personality type
