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23 Cards in this Set
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Narrative |
Storytelling |
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Documentaries |
non-fiction accounts of real people and events that may or may not tell a story in the process |
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Avant-Garde Films |
experimental film that may be composed of nothing but shapes or colors or shots of people, not assembled in the form of a tale |
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Story |
all the events of the narrative as they occur in chronological order from beginning to end, both seen and implied |
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plot |
the ordering and structuring of narrative events as they are presented in the film |
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Diegesis |
the world of the story |
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Syuzhet |
the specific ordering of narrative elements within the film (plot) |
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fabula |
the story that each of us constructs as we watch and hear the syuzhet unfold |
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Scene |
defined by the unity of time, space, and action |
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sequence |
maintains one or more of these unities while introducing a discontinuity |
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Flashback |
a shot, sequence, or scene that takes place in the past, before the present-day time frame established by the film |
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Flashforward |
a shot, sequence, or scene that takes place in the future, after the present-day time frame established by the film. |
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fade-in |
screen begins entirely black or white and picture gradually fades into its full strength and clarity |
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fade-out |
the image gradually disappears until the screen is all white or all black |
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Iris-in |
image begins as a small circle in the middle and widens until it covers the screen |
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Iris-out |
image shrinks in a circular form until it disappears in the middle of the screen |
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dissolve |
one image fades out while the next image fades in |
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superimposition |
two separate and distinct images overlap |
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wipe |
one image appears to push another image off the screen |
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star wipe |
the 2nd image appears in the center in a star shape and expands outward, wiping the first image off screen |
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Crosscutting |
editing that alternates two or more lines of action occurring in different places or times, thereby connecting them |
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B Movie |
a film that was made to fill the B side of a double feature and was probably less expensive to produce than the A picture that preceded it |
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desire |
the central character's pursuit of a goal |