Explicit Meaning - ✔✔ Everything that a movie presents on its surface
Implicit meaning - ✔✔ Lying below the surface of explicit meaning,
... [Show More] what the movie actually means
Formal analysis - ✔✔ Film analysis that examines formal elements-narrative, cinematography, editing, sound- and how well they convey story, mood, and meaning
Cinematic language - ✔✔ The accepted systems, methods, pr conventions by which the movies communicate with thw viewer. Deemed invisible due to the fact that viewers generally passively overlook these "rules"
Cultural invisibility - ✔✔ Generally viewers overlook the cultural influences in a movie
Shot - ✔✔ One interrupted run of the camera
Editing - ✔✔ The process by which an editor combines and cordinates individual shots into a cinematic whole
Cut - ✔✔ A direct change from one shot to another
Close up - ✔✔ A shot that often shows a part of the body filling the frame
Fade in/fade out - ✔✔ Transitional devices in which a shot fades in or out
Low angle shot - ✔✔ A shot that takes place below the actipn and puts the observer in a position of inferiority
Cutting on action - ✔✔ When shots jump abck and forth showing thw same action from different viewing angles
Protagonist - ✔✔ The primary chracter whos pursuit of the goal provides the foundation for the story
Theme - ✔✔ A shared public idea or familiar confict or personality type
Motif - ✔✔ A recurring visual, sound, or narrative element that imparts meaning or significance
Form - ✔✔ The means by whoch a subject is expressed, ie for poetry it is word, for movies:pictures and sound
Content - ✔✔ The subject of an artwork
Patterns - ✔✔ Manipulate expectations or response, can deem importance upon some aspect of the film
Three fundamental principles of film form - ✔✔ Light,
An illusion of movement,
Manipulation of soace and time in unique ways
Movement: persistence of vision - ✔✔ Process by which human brain retains an image for a fraction of a second longer than an eye records it
Movement:phi phenomenon - ✔✔ Created by events that succeed eachother rapidly; eye flickering on and off
Movement: critical flicker fusion - ✔✔ When lights flicker on and off so rapidly that it appears as if there is constantly light
Space manipulation - ✔✔ The angle of the shots , the movement of the camera, setting of props, all affects how we view space
Time manipulation - ✔✔ Through editing and jumping of scene to scene, and by messing with order
Realism - ✔✔ An interest or concern for the actual or real
Antirealism - ✔✔ The opposite of realism, fantasy is an example
Versimillitude - ✔✔ A convincing appearance of truth
Parralel editing - ✔✔ The intercutting of two or more lines of action that occur simultaneaously
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Four Different ways of looking at narrative - ✔✔ Narrative can mean a story, type of movie,a way of structuring fictional or fictionalized stories in a movie, or a broad idea that is all of these things plus anything that carries a cause and effect sequence of events [Show Less]