1. What is the difference between implicit and explicit meaning? (And how do these terms relate to onions, and ogres, and a movie such as Juno?" - correct
... [Show More] answer Ogres, Onions, and movies all have layers. This relates to the implicit and explicit meaning. The implicit meaning lies below the surface of a movie's story and presentation; implied or suggested. The explicit meaning is available on the surface of the movie; obvious.
What is "formal analysis" and how does formal analysis differ from other types of analyses that explore the relationship between culture and movies? - correct answer examines how a scene or sequence uses formal elements: narrative, mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, sound, and so on to convey story, mood, and meaning. It is fundamental to all approaches to understanding and engaging in cinema.
Alternative approaches analyze movies more as cultural artifacts rather than as traditional works of art.
What do we mean when we describe cinematic language as "invisible"? What are some of the reasons why cinematic language is invisible? - correct answer we mean that not all movie meaning is obvious and easy to see. Movies have a way of hiding their methods and meaning. One of the reasons why is because movies simply move too fast for viewers to consciously consider everything they've seen.
● Hiding like the equipment, giving the illusion of a story happening right now "make it seem less like a movie"
○ EX: can't see hanging camera because it would ruin the invisibility
● Don't want to take away the narrative of the movie
What do we mean by cultural invisibility? How is this different from cinematic invisibility? - correct answer the way filmmakers are compelled to favor stories and themes that reinforce viewers' shared belief systems (film makers want to give people the movies they want to see because they will sell). Cinematic invisibility is different because it refers to the actual hidden/invisible meaning of the movie.
What are the defining characteristics that distinguish movies from other forms of art? - correct answer The defining characteristics that distinguish movies from other forms of art are that movies move. The human brain and eye see movies as a fluid movement.
shot - correct answer One uninterrupted run of the camera.
cut - correct answer A direct change from one shot to another
editing - correct answer The process by which the editor combines and coordinates individual shots into a cinematic whole; the basic creative force of cinema.
close up - correct answer A shot that often shows a part of the body filling the frame.
fade in/fade out - correct answer Transitional devices in which a shot fades in from a black field on black and
white film or from a color field on color film, or fades out to a black field (or a color field).
low angle shot - correct answer A shot that is made with the camera below the action and that typically places the observer in a position of inferiority.
implicit meaning - correct answer lies below the surface of a movie's story and presentation, is closest to our everyday sense of the word meaning.
explicit meaning - correct answer meaning on the surface of the movie
Formal Analysis - correct answer analytical approach primarily concerned with film form
cutting on action - correct answer designed to hide the instantaneous and potentially jarring shift from one camera viewpoint to another
motif - correct answer any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story
- For example, "death" could be a motif in a literary work
character types - correct answer genre films are often populated by specific character "types." [Show Less]