Uark film lecture exam - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

UARK FILM LECTURE EXAM #1 |100% CORRECT!!

the film's Implicit Meaning - Answer We can think of these questions as what? -"what is the film trying to "say" thematically?" -"how does it achieve this through plot, structure, and character?" Omniscient - Answer narrator type- can follow any character, even minor ones, if it helps tell the story

eyeline match - Answer the first cut shows an object looking at something off screen. The second shot shows what is being looked at. (type of match cut) match on action - Answer the second shot is a continuation on some action from the first shot (type of match cut)

UARK FILM LECTURE EXAM #1 |100% CORRECT!!

The Kuleshov Effect (ex- same pic of face places with different things) - Answer during the Soviet Montage Movement- a key development in film editing which demonstrated that it was the juxtaposition of images, not the discrete images themselves, that generated meaning -The Jazz Singer -Little Caesar -Public Enemy - Answer What were some of the movies in Hollywood's Golden Age (1927- 1948)?

uteur Criticism - Answer Used to assess the work of important filmmakers Principle Theme in a Charlie Chaplin Film - Answer Outsider vs. Society Mise-en-scene Criticism - Answer Analyzes how images in film are used to convey information (setting, costumes, props, lighting, actor behavior, etc.) Visual Motif - Answer Image that is repeated to form a narrative theme

What do more pixels and more frames per second give the picture? - Answer They give the movie a better picture Why do we perceive still images as moving? - Answer It has not been explained by behavior psychologists What two perpetual phenomena have been suggested? - Answer Persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon

Angles - Answer High, Low, and Dutch High Angle - Answer shooting the scene from above, used to make the subject submissive Low Angle - Answer A shot from a position lower than its subject, used to make the subject appear dominant