Music And Film Midterm Terms 2

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Mystery Films

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movies like clue or the thin man

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Narrative Films

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is a film that tells a fictional or fictionalized story, event or narrative

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Non-Diagetic Music

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Music that cannot be heard by the characters in the film, it is more like the score of the film where the music is used to accompany it but does not have an obvious source.

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Non-Fiction Films

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Movies that do not have made up characters or stories, documentaries would fit this kind of category

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Omniscient POV

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a film where the narrator is not a character that is known to the audience but is all knowing and seems to know about everything that is going on.

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One-Reel Shorts

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short films that are not long enough to be considered feature length, in the olden times they only were on one reel

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Opening credits

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the credits that roll before a movie starts

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Opera

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a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists.

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operetta

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a short opera, usually on a light or humorous theme and typically having spoken dialogue

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Overture

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an orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera, suite, play, oratorio, or other extended composition.

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Original Score

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Something that is composed by a composer for a film, not songs that are taken from other places or other already known pieces of music

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Persistence of Vision

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The Fact that our eye can hold an image longer than we actually see it and that we can see it even after it goes away.

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Hitting the action

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when the music seems to make something that happens in a film seem more important or it changes when something important happens in the film

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Plot

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the story of a movie, play, books

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Point of View

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How the audience is hearing a story from a movie, play or film, can be first person or third person

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Positive Afterimage

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The image that your eye still holds even after the original image has disappeared

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Postproduction

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what happens after they are done filming a movie, where all the editing and fixing up of the film happens

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Prerecording

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record (sound or film) in advance.

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Protagonist

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The Hero of a story

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Romance Films

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Films like the notebook or titanic

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Rough cut

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an early cut of a film, not the final thing that will be seen in theaters

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Roxy Theater

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One of the most famous movie palaces that was built in new york city.

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Screening

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a showing of a movie before it comes out

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Setting

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where a story in a film, play or book takes place

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Science Fiction Films

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Movies like starship troopers, star trek, star wars

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Shot

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a film sequence photographed continuously by one camera.

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Sound Mixing

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Audio mixing is the process by which multiple sounds are combined into one or more channels.

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Sound on Film

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did not start happening until the 1920's first it happened with the vitaphone and then it was moved to being recorded directly onto the film

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Source Music

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Music that exists in the world of the movie whether it be from a radio or by a band performing in the film

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Spotting

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a time when the director and the composer of a film get together to watch the film without sound and then decide where the music will be and what kind of music it will be.

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Subjective POV

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Only the audience knows what is really going on, the actors or characters in the film do not

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Theme

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the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.

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Thematic Transformation

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process of altering the way the composition is presented.

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Trailer

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a short series of clips from an upcoming movie that is played before the feature presentation

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Underscore

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another word for score

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Vaudeville

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a type of entertainment popular chiefly in the US in the early 20th century, featuring a mixture of specialty acts such as burlesque comedy and song and dance.

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Wall to Wall Music

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Movies that have non-stop music the whole time

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Westerns

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Movies like High Noon or Stagecoach