Voice-over Narration - ✔✔ -narration heard concurrently and over a scene but not synchronized to any character who may be talking on screen. it can
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-when we hear a character's voice over the picture without actually seeing the character speak words
Direct Address Narration - ✔✔ -an on-screen character looks and speaks directly to the audience
-breaks the "fourth wall" that traditionally separates the viewer from the two-dimensional fiction on-screen. It goes beyond the first-person narrative and voice-over narration. This is when the first-person narrator character interrupts the narrative.
Omniscient Narration - ✔✔ providing a third person view of all aspects of a movie's action or characters
Restricted Narration - ✔✔ reveals information to the audience only as a specific character learns of it
Round Characters - ✔✔ complex character possessing numerous, subtle, repressed, or contradictory traits that can change significantly over the course of the story—sometimes surprisingly so. Seem more lifelike due to the complexness.
Flat Characters - ✔✔ a relatively uncomplicated character exhibiting few distinct traits. they do not change significantly as the story progresses
This doesn't mean they are less legitimate that other characters; different types of stories call for different approaches to character traits, behaviors, and development.
Protagonist - ✔✔ -primary character whose pursuit of the goal provides the structural foundation of a movie's story
-character who pursues the goal
Antagonist - ✔✔ the character, creature or force that obstructs or resists the protagonist's pursuit of his or her goal.
Anti-Hero - ✔✔ an unsympathetic protagonist pursuing a morally objectionable or otherwise undesirable goal.
Ex: Holden from Catcher in the Rye
Inciting Incident (Catalyst) - ✔✔ -the event or situation during the exposition stage of the narrative that sets the rest of the narrative in motion
-presents the character with the goal that will drive the rest of the narrative.
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
Resolution - ✔✔ the concluding narrative events that follow the climax and celebrate, or otherwise reflect upon, story outcomes(goal is either lost or attained). also, the capacity of the camera lens, film stock, and processing to provide fine detail in an image.
Story - ✔✔ all the events we see or hear on the screen, as well as all the events that are implicit or infer to have happened but are not explicitly presented
Plot - ✔✔ specific actions and events that filmmakers select, and the order in which they arrange those events and actions to effectively convey on-screen the movie's narrative to a viewer.
Diegesis - ✔✔ the total world of the story
the total compilation of a story--events, characters, objects, settings, and sound--that form the world in which the story occurs.
Diegetic Element - ✔✔ an element--event, character, object, setting, and sound--that helps form the world in which the story occurs.
Nondiegetic element - ✔✔ something that we see and hear on the screen that comes from outside the world of the story, such as background music, titles and credits, and voice-over narration
Story Duration - ✔✔ The amount of time that the implied story takes to occur
-implied amount of time taken by the entire narrative arc of a movie's story--whether or not explicitly presented on-screen
Plot Duration - ✔✔ elapsed time of the events within a story that a film chooses to tell.
-the elapsed time of those events within the story that the film explicitly presents (in other words, the elapsed time of the plot).
Screen Duration - ✔✔ the movie's running time on screen
What are the differences between omniscient and restricted narration? - ✔✔ Omniscient narration knows all and can tell us whatever it wants us to know. It has unrestricted access to all aspects of the narrative. It can provide any character's experiences and perceptions, as well as information that no character knows. It shows the audience whatever it needs in order to best tell the story.
Restricted narration limits the information it provides to only things already known to a single character. This approach allows the audience to identify with the character's singular perspective and allows us to participate in the unlocking of secrets
How (and why) do we distinguish between the story and plot of a movie? - ✔✔ A movie's story consists of (1) all the narrative elements that are explicitly presented on-screen plus (2) all the events that are implicit or that we infer to have happened but are not explicitly presented.
The plot consists of the specific actions and events the filmmakers select and the order in which they arrange those events to effectively convey the narrative to the viewer.
What is meant by the diegesis of a story?
What is the difference between diegetic and nondiegetic elements in the plot?
(see video tutorial "Diegetic and Nondiegetic Elements") - ✔✔ Diegesis and diegetic elements of the story means all of the elements you see on-screen that make up the story's world (not to be confused with mise-en-scène). The difference in nondiegetic is that they are not a part of the story's interacting world.
Which of the following is the most common relationship of screen duration to plot duration: summary relationship, real time, or stretch relationship? Define each one. - ✔✔ Summary Duration is most common and occurs when the screen duration is shorter than the plot duration.
Real time is when the screen duration corresponds directly to plot duration
and a
Stretch relationship is when screen duration exceeds plot duration.
As presented in lecture, explore the Narrative Structures of Spirited Away and Rear Window. For each film, which specific plot events would best match with the following: - ✔✔ ...
What is mise-en-scène? What is the literal meaning of the phrase? What do we mean by this phrase more generally when we discuss movies? - ✔✔ Mise-en-Scène translates from French as "staging" and means the arrangement of all things seen on screen. In film it generally refers to the overall look and feel of a movie.
-literally means, "staging or putting an action or scene" and is thus sometimes called staging. Everything you see on screen was put there to help tell a story.
What are the two major visual components of mise-en-scène? - ✔✔ Design- design of the three-dimensional space
Composition- composition of the two-dimensional frame
What are the principal responsibilities of the production designer, and when is the production designer usually brought into the film production (during pre-production, production, or post-production?) - ✔✔ -The production designer on a movie is entirely responsible for all things seen on screen. Their job is to work closely with the director and director of photography to visualize and design from top to bottom
what will appear on screen. They are usually brought in during preproduction to collaborate and plan for shooting. [Show Less]