What are the differences between omniscient and restricted narration? - ✔✔ Omniscient
-it knows all and can tell us whatever it wants us to know
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-unrestricted access to all aspects of the narrative
-any character's experiences and perceptions
Restrictive
-limits the information it provides the audience to things known by a single character
-Rear Window
-audience identifies with the character's singular perspective
-can be unreliable
How (and why) do we distinguish between the story and plot of a movie? - ✔✔ 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
Overlap and interact
Filmmakers use plot to tell us a story
Story exists as a precondition to the plot, and the filmmaker must understand what story is being told before going through the difficult job of selecting events to show on-screen and determining in what order to present that.
Story Duration
-amount of time that the implied story takes to occur
Plot Duration
-elapsed time of those events within the story that the film explicitly presents
Screen Duration
- running time on-screen
What is meant by diegesis of a story? What is the differences between diegetic and nondiegetic elements in the plot? - ✔✔ 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
Which of the following is the most common relationship of screen duration to plot duration: summary relationship, real time, or stretch relationship? - ✔✔ Summary Relationship is most common
Summary Relationship
-Screen duration is shorter than plot duration
Real Time
-Screen duration corresponds directly to plot duration
Stretch Relationship
-Screen duration is longer than plot duration
Voice-over narration - ✔✔ narration heard concurrently and over a scene but not synchronized to any character who may be talking on screen. it can come from many sources.
direct address narration - ✔✔ an on-screen character looks and speaks directly to the audience
omniscient narration - ✔✔ providing a third person view of all aspects of a movie's action or characters
restricted narrration - ✔✔ reveals information to the audience only as a specific character learns of it
round characters - ✔✔ complex character possessing numerous, subtle, repressed, or contradictory traits. they often develop over the course of a story
flat charaters - ✔✔ a relatively uncomplicated character exhibiting few distinct traits. they do not change significantly as the story progresses
protagonist - ✔✔ primary character whose pursuit of the goal provides the structural foundation of a movie's story
antagonist - ✔✔ the character, creature or force that obstructs or resists the protagonist's pursuit of his or her goal.
anti-hero - ✔✔ an outwardly unsympathetic protagonist pursuing a morally objectionable or otherwise undesirable goal. Ex: Holden from Catcher in the Rye
inciting incident (catayst) - ✔✔ the event or situation during the exposition stage of the narrative that sets the rest of the narrative in motion
rising action - ✔✔ development of the action of the narrative toward a climax
crisis - ✔✔ a critical turning point in a story when the protagonist must engage a seemingly insurmountable obstacle
climax - ✔✔ the highest point of conflict in a conventional narrative; the protagonist's ultimate attempt to attain the goal [Show Less]