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50 Cards in this Set
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Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
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Formed in 1927 it is what has the academy awards every year
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Action and Adventure films
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Films like indiana jones
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Actualities
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The first films like the ones that the lumiere brothers made that were supposed to show parts of everyday life.
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Adaptation
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Taking a piece of music or a script from something else.
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Adapted Score
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A score that is taken from something else but is changed a bit to fit the movie it has been adapted for.
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Animation
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hand drawn or computer generated movies like finding nemo or tangled
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Antagonist
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The Bad Guy
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ASCAP
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The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers founded in 1914 made the theaters and still makes theaters pay royalties for the music they use
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auteur
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a filmmaker whose personal influence and artistic control over a movie are so great that the filmmaker is regarded as the author of the movie.
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Ballet
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One of the forerunners of film music, used when it is danced to.
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Causal Plot
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when one part of the play's plot causes another thing to happen, a cause and effect type plot.
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Character
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a person in a novel, play, or movie.
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cinematography
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everything that goes into making a film like the shots, cuts, angle, that is mostly camera work.
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Closing credits
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the credits that roll after a film is over.
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Comedy Films
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Funny movies like Bridesmaids
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Compilation Score
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A score that is made up of many different things, mostly songs by different artists, these scores are used in comedy films mostly
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Crosscutting
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Cuts that are used in a film to show action going on at the same time but in different locations.
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Musical Cue
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A musical cue is where another instrument's music is shown on a piece of music
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Cut
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when a film is cut up in to different scenes and shots, it is the defining point between two shots.
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Dailies
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the viewing of what was shot of a film on a certain day, it has not been edited but is viewed to figure out what would go good in the final film
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Diegetic Music
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Music that is not only noticeable to the audience but also to the characters of the film, music that has a source in the world of the film.
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Dramas
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Movies like the notebook or the blindside
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entr'acte
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an interval between two acts of a play or opera or a movie.
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Episodic Plot
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a plot where the story is told in more of an episode version where one major thing happens but they are not necessarily connected, like watching an episode of a tv show.
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Film Editing
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What happens after the film has been shot, the cutting of the film, the ways of making it fit good in time, the adding of music and sound effects
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Film Music Functions
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- to establish a mood
- to counter the mood - to support the plot - to establish character - establish setting - establish POV - establish a theme |
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Film Genres
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what a film is classified as, examples: dramas, comedies, horror
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Film Music Styles
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Post Romantic
Modern Popular Historical Ethnic Eclectic |
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Post Romantic Music
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lots of melody, heroic sounding, more orchestral
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modern music
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not as much melody more dissonant, might sound a bit clashing
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Popular Music
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Music that is played on the radio, for example music by katy perry or lady gaga
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Historical Music
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Music that belongs to a certain time period
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Ethnic Music
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Music that belongs to a certain ethnicity or group of people, can be used to set location
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Eclectic Music
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Music that can't really be categorized.
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Flashback
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when a story or story teller goes back to tell about something that happened in the past.
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Gesamtkunstwerk
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This word, coined by Richard Wagner in his theoretical essays of 1849-51, means literally "whole arts work". It is the idea of combining many variations of media for the purpose of Drama.
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Horror
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Types of Movies like Saw, The Shining, The Chucky Movies
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Incidental Dramatic Music
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music used in a film or play as a background to create or enhance a particular atmosphere. Originally used as background music in plays
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Leitmotif
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a recurring musical theme that occurs through a movie that is supposed to help us think of a person, thing or idea. Like the duh duh duh thing from jaws
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Melodrama
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a play interspersed with songs and orchestral music accompanying the action.
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Mickey Mousing
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one of the techniques that was used in the early days of film where they synchronized the actions of the film to what was going on in the music
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mise-en-scene
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the arrangement of what you see on screen in front of you. the scenery, the costumes, the camera angles, special effects etc..
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Montage
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a segment where there a lot of clips of different things going on, a cliche one would have to do with shopping
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Mood
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the feelings that a film or piece of music gives off
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Musical Adaptations
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changing a bit of music that is known from something else into something that may fit your film more and is more well known.
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Music Arrangements
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How the music is arranged to know that certain instruments are supposed to play certain notes and the loudness and softness of the music
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Musical Motif
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a recurring tune that is supposed to represent a certain person, place, thing or idea.
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Music Theme
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usually a recognizable melody, upon which part or all of a composition is based.
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Musical Comedy
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films like singing in the rain
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Musicals
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films like phantom of the opera or rent
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