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TFM Exam Study Guide 1Implicit Meaning - -An association, connection, or inference that a viewer
makes on the basis of the given (explicit) meaning conveyed by the story
and form of a film. closest to our everyday sense of the word
-Explicit Meaning - -Everything that a movie presents on its surface.
-How does explicit meaning relate to juno - -The movie's about a rebellious
but smart sixteen-year-old girl who gets pregnant and resolves to tackle the
problem head on. At first, she decides to get an abortion; but after she backs
off that choice, she gets the idea to find a couple to adopt the kid after it's
born. She spends the rest of the movie dealing with the implications of that
choice.
-How does implicit meaning relate to juno - -"A teenager faced with a
difficult decision makes a bold leap toward adulthood but, in doing so,
discovers that the world of adults is no less uncertain or overwhelming than
adolescence."
-Formal Analysis - -Film analysis that examines how a scene or sequence
uses formal elements—narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing,
sound, and so on—to convey story, mood, and meaning.
-How does formal analysis differ from other
types of analyses that explore the relationship between culture and movies?
- -The movie meaning expressed through form ranges from narrative
information as straightforward as where and when a particular scene takes
place to more subtle implied meaning, such as mood, tone, significance, or
what a character is thinking or feeling. You have to analyze the movie
basically vs other anyalses are just more straight forward.
-What do we mean when we describe cinematic language as "invisible"? - -
early filmmaking pioneers created a film grammar (or cinematic language)
that draws upon the way we automatically interpret visual information in our
real lives, thus allowing audiences to absorb movie meaning intuitively and
instantly. Basically all the tricks that directors use the audiences brains pick
up on it without even having to think about it. Like when the director uses
different angles like when Juno is riding the bike at the end our brain
autmatically sees her as triumphant just the way the camera is postioned but
we didnt have to think about it super hard.
-What are some of the reasons why cinematic language is invisible? - -
Becuase our brains pick up messges and ideas autmatically by just seeing
, things like when you see a sun you automatically think happy or a stormy
cloud you think sad.
-Wha do we mean by cultural invisibility? - -The same commercial instinct
that inspires filmmakers to use seamless continuity also compels them to
favor stories and themes that reinforce viewers' shared belief systems. After
all, the film industry, for the most part, seeks to entertain, not to provoke, its
customers. A key to entertaining the customers is to give them what they
want
-How cultural invisibility different from cinematic
invisibility? - -Cultural invisibality is making movies that your audiences are
gonna like because it confirms there cutlrual beliefs while cinematic
invisability is when the audiences automatiacally pick up ideas or messages
about the movie just by the way the director shoots the movie.
-Shot - -One uninterrupted run of the camera. A shot can be as short or as
long as the director wants, but it cannot exceed the length of the film stock
in the camera.
-Cut - -A direct change from one shot to another; that is, the precise point
at which shot A ends and shot B begins; one result of cutting. (page 5)
-Editing - -The process by which the editor combines and coordinates
individual shots into a cinematic whole; the basic creative force of cinema.
(page 5)
-Close-up - -A shot that often shows a part of the body filling the frame—
traditionally a face, but possibly a hand, eye, or mouth. (page 5)
-Fade in / Fade Out - -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 - -Also known as low shot. A shot that is made with the
camera below the action and that typically places the observer in a position
of inferiority.
-Cutting on Action - -Also known as match-on-action cut. A continuity
editing technique that smoothes the transition between shots portraying a
single action from different camera angles. The editor ends the first shot in
the middle of a continuing action and begins the subsequent shot at
approximately the same point in the matching action.
-Protagonist - -The primary character whose pursuit of the goal provides the
structural foundation of a movie's story.
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