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24 Cards in this Set
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Descriptive Claims |
What happens and how (plot, characters) |
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Evaluative Claims |
measuringthe film’s worth. A “review” of how good the film is. |
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Interpretive Claims |
Addressing a film’s meaning and significance. |
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Signs |
Minimalunit of signification. Letter of alphabet. |
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Icon |
Image looks like or directly associated with the meaning |
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Symbol |
Nodirect, indirect, or inherent relationship between signifier and signified. |
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Denotative meaning |
Literalmeaning |
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Connotative |
“Latent” or second level meaning |
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Signifier |
(theactual image or sound itself) |
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Signified |
(the meaning of the image or sound) |
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Genre |
Kind" or "type" of film - looking at film throughcategory |
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Conventions |
rules involving plot, character types, settings, themes, stylistictechniques, etc. |
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Pre-production |
before filming takes place. |
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Production |
actual filming occurs |
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Post-production |
worktakes place after filming |
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Producer |
in charge of business aspects, administration, acquiring rights,financial aspects |
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Director |
incharge of the actual filmmaking process; everything that goes into the actualfilming. |
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Unity |
Cause and effect Connections between cause and effect direct andcomplete |
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Characters |
Audience identification and involvement |
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Clarity |
- Character motivations, film space, time, events,plot unambiguous. |
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Closure |
Usually“happy” endings - but even when not, no ambiguity. No questions left unanswered.Weknow how to feel. |
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Ideology theory |
Setof beliefs about our world - shared and individual views about society.Includes political and personal views. |
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Dominant Ideology |
Filmoften doesn’t delve into complexities |
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Ideological Challenges |
Attempts to critique, criticize, explore and challenge the Dominantideology. |
