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15 Cards in this Set
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Narrative
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Chain of events in cause-effect relationship occurring in time and place.
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Story & Plot
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Story is the set of all events in a narrative, both the ones explicitly presented and those the viewer infers. And Plot describes everything visible and audibly present in the film before us.
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Cause & Effect
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Characters are the agents of cause and effect by triggering and reacting to events, characters play roles within the formal system.
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Time:
Temporal Order? Temporal Duration? Temporal Frequency? |
Temporal Order - Present events out of story order.
Temporal Duration - Short comprehensive time span or highlight significant stretches of time. Temporal Frequency - A single story could appear more than once in a plot. |
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Narration
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Resolve its casual issues by bringing the development to a high point (climax).
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Unrestricted
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Viewer and all characters know.
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Restricted Narration
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Viewer knows
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Narrator
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Process by which the plot presents story information to the spectator.
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Classical hollywood cinema
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"classical" - lengthy, stable, and influential.
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Semiotics
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Genre as a system of "language" and "discourse"
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Grains
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millions of tiny light-sensitive
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Gauges
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Film stocks in variable widths
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Fast film stock
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require less light
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"Designing a movie for sound"
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Randy Thom
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"The impact of digital technologies on film aesthetics"
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Michael Allen
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