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©PREP4EXAMS@2024 [REAL EXAM DUMPS] Tuesday, July 23, 2024 10:52 AMMACS 100 Exam 1 Study guide, Macs 100 exam 2
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two main points of analysis in Film Studies. - ✔️✔️Social-Ideological, Formal aesthetic
Mise-en-scene - ✔️✔️the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play:
-Translation: "putting on the stage"
Types of shots
-Composition (spatial relationships of objects within frame)
-Lighting
-Staging (arrangement/movement of figures and props)
-Editing
Components of Narrative. The characteristics of the "Classical" and "Post-Classical" narrative.
Narrative model & narrative tendency. - ✔️✔️3 components:
Story: events within and implied
Plot: Structure of events (linear?Nonlinear?)
Narration: Perspective? Tone or emotion? emphasis?
-Classical: logical, credible, cause effect, resolves, form in service of...
-post classical: ambiguous,effect w/o cause, art film
Identifying different types of lighting. - ✔️✔️Fill Lighting
Backlighting
Side Lighting
Practical Lighting
Bounce Lighting
Soft Lighting
Hard Lighting
Three qualities of the shot. - ✔️✔️Photographic Properties: Tone (Range of color)
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Perspective (Spatial Relations)
-Shot/Reverse shot: keeping characters seperate in the frame.
-Two Shot: when both characters are in the frame
-Close up: When character's face has a close up. Usually able to show a revelation in the
character.
Examples and purposes of editing. - ✔️✔️Linking shots.
Sets Pace
Building Scenes
Building sequence
Building units of meaning
Complex, effective, expressive tool
Intrinsic and essential to the form
Ex: Cut, Montage, Motion
The definition of Ideology and its importance. - ✔️✔️Systems of ideas, assumptions, guiding
belief and behavior. Values.
Ideology is NOT political party
Implementation of power is POLITICS. Its blueprint is ideology
Spinning: tilting news events to serve ideology
- Done through SELECTION and EMPHASIS
- Punditry: FOX news c MSNBC
Gramsci and Althusser - ✔️✔️ALTHUSSER: Central and inevitable in society. Needed to
function.
- Mass media is one apparatus of many.
GRAMSCI: A space of struggle between the powerful and the governed. → Dynamic
The principle concepts of Representation. What is the relationship between Representation and
Reality? What it means to "stand-in" for someone or something as a form of representation. -
✔️✔️- Representation- "to stand for" who is representing whom? How are social groups shown;
what ideological spins are used; are they represented fairly?
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- Re-presentation- the depiction of reality in the struggle between the powerful and the governed;
part of meaning making (whose realities are seen, whose are erased); what spins are used to
construct, depict, re-represent realities; which ideologies are reinforced/ erased in the
reconstruction of reality.
Stuart Hall: "Representation gives reality MEANING"
Corrigan/White: "Movie Genres: Rituals, Conventions, Archetypes and Formulas:"
• How does the article define Genre? Conventions? Formulas? - ✔️✔️1) Genre: identify group,
social, or community activity and seemed opposed to the individual creativity that we associate
as art forms, including experimental films.
- conventions:
2) Conventions: properties or features that identify a genre such as character types, settings, prop
or events that are repeated from film to film.
Genre Conventions:
Character Types: nerds, bully's, social climbers.
Settings: high school, office, big cities.
Props: artifacts, media tech, fashion.
Events: prom, reunion, rites of passage
3) Patterns for developing stories in a particular genre.
• How is Genre a "social contract?" - ✔️✔️provides the writer with a socially recognizable way to
make his or her intentions known
. What is the role of expectation? - ✔️✔️- generic expectations inform a reader's experience while
watching a film, helping him or her anticipate the meaning of the movie's conventions or
formulas.
- Cues that help audiences derive an experience.
The genre conventions of comedy - ✔️✔️- Character defined by physical feature
-Emphasis on GAGS over story
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