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Scandinavian Cinema
BYU Scandinavian and German Cinema
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 2
04/18/2013

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Narrative
Definition
A chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurring in time and space
Term
Diegetic vs Nondiegetic sound
Definition
Diegetic sound is when it's sound that is coming from the scene itself (i.e. dialogue between characters)
Term
Which of the following is NOT a convention of time in a film?
Order
Duration
Frequency
Rhythm
Definition
Rhythm is not a convention of time in a film
Term
What is the most common pattern of plot development
Definition
Change in knowledge
Term
Easy way to analyze the range of narration is to ask:
Definition
Who knows what when?
Term
Narration that confines us wholly to information about what characters say and do is:
Definition
Objective Narration
Term
The general conception of narrative within the classical Hollywood Cinema depends on the assumption that action springs from:
Definition
Personal Psychological Causes
Term
Mise-en-scene incorporates which following four elements in capturing the events for the camera?
Definition
setting, lighting, costume, behavior of the figures
Term
What is the best way to analyze mise-en-scene's function in a film?
Definition
according to how it is motivated, how it varies or develops, and how it works in relation to other film techniques
Term
Makeup, like costume, can be important to
Definition
Creating character traits
Motivating plot action
Term
Key Light
Definition
The dominant light source, which also usually corresponds to the motivating light source
Term
The type of lighting that serves as an overall approach to illumination, and can suggest different lighting conditions or times of day is
Definition
High-key lighting
Term
The lighting effect containing extremely dark and light regions within the image, hard lines and sharp contrasts is called
Definition
Chiaroscuro
Term
A performance should be examined according to its
Definition
Function
Term
Film acting calls for a stronger interplay between restraint and emphasis.
Definition
True
Term
In order to prime our expectations that something will change position in the frame, directors will often present a(n) ________ frame.
Definition
Unbalanced
Term
Depth cues are provided by
Definition
Lighting
Staging
Costumes
Setting
Term
What influences our scanning of a scene the most?
Definition
Movement
Term
The range of tonalities and frequencies of light reaching the film can be strongly altered by the use of
Definition
Filters
Term
With a constant projection speed, to get a slow-motion effect, the cinematographer must
Definition
shoot more frames per second.
Term
What does the focal length of the lens control?
Definition
both depth perception and the scale of things in an image
Term
Cues for depth and volume are reduced with __________ lenses.
Definition
Telephoto
Term
A shot which begins with the foreground in sharp focus and the background fuzzy and then switches to bring the background into sharp focus and the foreground fuzzy is known as
Definition
Racking Focus
Term
The type of projection where foreground and background appears starkly separate is known as
Definition
Rear projection
Term
What is the purpose of framing?
Definition
to create a neutral border around the image
to impose a certain vantage point onto the material for the audience
to prevent the image from becoming too defined for the audience
Term
Noël Burch has pointed out six zones of off-screen space: the space beyond each of the four edges of the frame, the space behind the set, and the space behind the camera. Which is the LEAST used off-screen space in film making?
Definition
the space behind the camera
Term
When we are looking down at the material in the frame, the camera is at what angle?
Definition
High angle
Term
Framing that is tipped to one side or the other is known as canting.
Definition
True
Term
Which of the following is framed by a medium shot?
Definition
the body from the waist up
Term
Which of the following camera movements is a tracking shot?
Definition
The camera as a whole changes direction, traveling in any direction along the ground.
Term
Which of the following is NOT an editing joining method?
Definition
fade-in/fade-out
dissolve
switch (CORRECT)
wipe
Term
Which two relationships are present in the editing of any film?
Definition
graphic and rhythmic
Term
the following patterns may be considered purely as graphic configurations
Definition
light and dark
line and shape
movement and stasis
Term
When the filmmaker adjusts the length of shots in relation to one another, she or he is controlling what?
Definition
the rhythmic potential of editing
Term
In the Kuleshov effect, editing cues the spectator to
Definition
infer a single locale
Term
An editing technique that presents an action in such a way that it consumes less time on the screen than it does in the story is called what?
Definition
Ellipsis
Term
What is another name for the 180-degree space?
Definition
The center line
or
The axis of action
Term
What is a cheat cut?
Definition
mismatching slightly the positions of characters or objects
Term
Crosscutting gives the audience an unrestricted knowledge of causal, temporal, or spatial information by alternating shots from one line of action in one place with shots of other events in other places. Thus, crosscutting creates some ________ discontinuity.
Definition
spatial
Term
What is a soundtrack?
Definition
An ongoing stream of auditory information
Term
Sound relates to visual events that take place in a specific time. This relationship gives sound what?
Definition
Temporal dimension
Term
What is fidelity in sound?
Definition
The extent to which the sound is faithful to the source as conceived by the audience
Term
Sound perspective can be suggested by which of the following?
Definition
Volume
Term
What is simultaneous sound?
Definition
the matching of sound with the image in terms of story events
Term
What is a sound bridge?
Definition
sound from a previous scene that lingers briefly while the image presents the next scene
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