Ch.3 Types Of Movies

1)Documentary filmmaking, which uses actual people, places, and events as source material, is described by John Grierson as a creative treatment of actuality.

2)Westerns

-use landscape as an important visual and thematic element.

-typically include a conflict between civilization and wilderness.

- are a form of modern mythology.

3)In film noir, the protagonist is usually an antihero who rarely pursues or achieves leadership status.

4)The three major types of movies are narrative, experimental, and documentary.

5)Narrative films are directed toward fiction.

6)The founding purpose of the persuasive documentary was to address social injustice.

7)Animation films are a different form of moviemaking, but not necessarily a single type of movie.

8)Film noir has a distinct visual style that include sdeep shadows, nighttime exterior scenes, and elements composed diagonally in the frame.

9)Direct cinema limits the use of narrators and allows the audience to observe events as they occur.

10)Experimental films frequently reflect the creative vision of a single artist. These films

invite individual interpretation.

Ch.4 Elements Of Narrative

1)The total world of a film’s story is called its diegesis.

2)Unlike story order, which flows chronologically, plot order can be manipulated so that events are presented nonchronologically.

3)Nondiegetic element

-voice-over narration

-score

-subtitles

4)What are the three types of duration identified by this chapter?

-screen duration

- plot duration

-story duration

5)A character who pursues a goal and is the central figure of a story but has a dark and hostile nature is called a traditional hero or an individual with non-heroic traits .

6)What is a movie’s narrative?

-the telling of a movie’s story

7)Round characters

-are lifelike and believable.

-are complex and three-dimensional.

-often possess contradictory traits.

8)Screen duration is the movie’s running time on-screen.

9)The inciting incident is the event or situation that sets the rest of the narrative in motion. The climax comes when the protagonist faces the narrative’s major obstacle.