Iwc1 - Mod 4 (Film) - Literature, Arts And The Humanities

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The psychological separation of the audience from the performance is called

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aesthetic distance

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How do the terms drama and theater differ

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Drama is the literary component of theater, and it includes works written for radio, television, and cinema.

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an audience's willingness to accept events onstage as true or plausible during a performance, and make an emotional connection

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Drama is the literary component of theater, and it includes works written for radio, television, and cinema.

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The conflicts inherent in the dramatic situation are elaborated and developed in the

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complication

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The underlying meaning of the story in drama is its:

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Theme

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an emotional release by the audience in response to tragedy.

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Catharsis

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The genre that combines spoken dialogue with singing, dancing and music is called

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Musical theater

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Skill and imagination used to create or produce aesthetic objects

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Art

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The Visual elements of drama

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Mise - en-scene

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Elements ( lines, shapes, colors) of a work of art origanized to effect participants

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Artistic Form

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The meaning of the work of art

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Content

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A moment in the drama where the main character must make a crucial decision, one which will determine his fate

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Turning point

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The focus of a work of art (what is it about)

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Subject Matter

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a work of theater with a primary goal of making the audience laugh, one which generally has a happy ending

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Comedy

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a defect in the hero's character

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Tragic flaw

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the appearance of truth or reality in theater (stage set, dialogue, etc.)

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Verisimilitude

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a comedy characterized by broad often physical humor, superficial characters, and improbable situations

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Farce

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the deliberate introduction of information (verbally, visually or otherwise) suggesting an event that will take place later in the story

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Foreshadowing

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a type of experimental theater that bridges the disciplines of theater and the visual arts

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Performance art

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an audience's detachment or non-involvement with the characters or situation that allows for contemplation or reflection

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Aesthetic distance

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an artistic movement that breaks with tradition and radically new or original

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Avant-garde

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a drama with a disastrous ending, generally involving the downfall of a flawed protagonist, which often involves catharsis

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Tragedy

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an audience's willingness to accept events onstage as true or plausible during a performance

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Suspension of disbelief

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dramatic genre which assaults the senses through shocking scenes and blood and gore with a goal of alienation and entertainment

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Theater of Cruelty

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a moment in the drama where the main character must make a crucial decision, one which will determine his fate; also called the crisis

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Turning point

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Neoclassical requirements for theater: unity of time (events occur while audience is present); unity of place (action occurs in the same place); and unity of action (only one plot)

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Unities

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in Greek drama, a group of actors who comment on the action and provide society's view of the events

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Chorus

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a speech delivered by a character who is alone on the stage

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Soliloquy

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unstated motivations, ideas, or tensions beneath the surface of a drama's text

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Subtext

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the resolution of a plot by use of a highly improbable chance or coincidence; in Latin, "god from the machine"

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Deus ex machina

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middle section of a drama where conflicts inherent in the situation are elaborated and developed, and dramatic tension builds until a moment of maximum intensity and interest, called the climax

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Complication

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dramatic genre associated with Bertold Brecht which sought to create emotional distance by highlighting artificiality of the theater, so the audience would watch objectively and focus on ideas

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Theater of Alienation

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those depicted in a drama, whether fictional, historical, or contemporary

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Characters

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the purging of a spectator's strong emotions through experiencing tragedy; Aristotle's concept

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Catharsis

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a monologue delivered with another character present

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Aside

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the enduring literary component of theater

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Drama

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the main, and most important, character of a drama; Aristotle saw this character as one who chooses, learns, and changes

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Protagonist

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a popular, moralistic, sentimental drama, often involving conflict between two-dimensional characters (good vs. bad)

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Melodrama

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an opening which introduces the characters and their circumstances, the setting, the mood, and the situation, giving the audience information essential for understanding the story

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Exposition

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the moment when the main character becomes aware of an essential truth about himself or his situation; also called the recognition

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Discovery

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how the various events that make up the story are arranged

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Plot

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theatrical genre in which human or individual weaknesses or shortcomings are shown by means of ridicule, derision, irony, or other methods, often with the intent to expose or correct

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Satire

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the moment when the main character is compelled to suffer a fate which is the opposite of his original desire; usually the immediate effect of the discovery

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Reversal (of fortune)

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the art of writing and producing plays, a collaborative medium of artistic expression

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Theater

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the visual elements of drama

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Mise-en-scène

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when a drama's action comes to its proper conclusion and a resolution is near

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Denouement

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In a classic tragedy, the protagonist and the hero are

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one and the same

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Despite the fact that drama is inherently artificial, an audience is willing to participate in the "world" it creates. This is called:

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suspension of disbelief.

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Artistotle grouped together the sets, scenery, props, costumes, makeup, lighting and special effects under the name:

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Spectacle

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Denouement is a French word referring to which section of a typical plot structure?

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The resolution

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Of the following, what is the best definition of the term, "recognition," as it is used in classic drama?

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The point at which the protagonist discovers the truth about his or her situation.

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Cinderella, the story of a miserable, unloved servant girl who eventually marries a prince, is an example of which of the following dramatic genres?

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Comedy

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This term is usually reserved for those speeches written in a heightened, more poetic style given by one character without interruption.

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Soliloquy

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Playwrights use stereotypes largely to:

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eliminate the need for development, to get to the action faster

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The beginning of a drama is typically where the audience is given information that is essential to its understanding of the story. This opening section is referred to as the:

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exposition

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The perceptual phenomenon that involves an image being retained in the mind for a brief moment after the image is gone, is called:

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persistence of vision

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Which term best describes a sequence of shots that serves to condense the narrative

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Montage

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The inciting incident, which introduces a conflict that must be resolved, generally occurs:

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at the end of the first act of the screenplay.

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According to Christopher Vogler, screenplays often rely on

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myths and archetypes.

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a gradual transition from one image to another, accomplished by the movement of a border, edge, or shape (such as a vertical bar or an expanding circle) between the images

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Wipe

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cutting repeatedly between two different sequences, suggesting they are happening simultaneously, or that the events are thematically related

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Cross cut

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the basic unit of film-making: what the motion picture camera records in a single stretch of time

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Shot

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an uninterrupted shot of an entire scene, usually used as a timing and pacing reference during the editing process

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Master shot

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the art of movie photography, including camera position and lighting, in telling a story

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Cinematography

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an immediate transition from one moment in a shot to a later moment in the same shot, causing an abrupt shift in the subject's position

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Jump cut

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camera shot that moves directly toward or away from the subject or alongside the subject through the use of a rolling platform called a dolly

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Tracking shot

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film technique employing detailed shots to stretch out screen time

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Elongated moment

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camera shot that shows character who is experiencing action

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Subjective shot

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a gradual transition from one image to another, usually signifying the passage of time

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Dissolve

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camera shot that establishes the setting of the scene that follows

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Establishment shot

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perspective where the camera assumes a subject's view and thus viewers see what the subject sees

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Point of view (POV) shot

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a set of techniques that seek to make the transitions (or cuts) from shot to shot as unobtrusive and continuous as possible

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Continuity editing

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camera shot where the subject is close; used to establish emotional content

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Close-up

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vertical movement of the camera from a fixed position

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Tilting

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when a film's action comes to its proper conclusion and a resolution is near

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Denouement

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a temporary interruption of the chronological progress of the narrative, during which interruption an event of the past is shown

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Flashback

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a form of entertainment that employs a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement to tell a story

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Film

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a script with the dialogue, descriptions, and all other elements required to tell the story of a film, television show, or other visual story

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Screenplay

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an opening which introduces the characters and their circumstances, the setting, the mood, and the situation, giving the audience information essential for understanding the story

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Exposition

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horizontal movement of the camera from a fixed position

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Panning

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a gradual transition from image to darkness, or the reverse

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Fade

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film technique to establish quick passage of time (for example, shots of flipping calendar pages, or trees changing seasons)

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Compressed time

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camera shot where the subject(s) are at a distance that gives them context, devoting about half of the frame to the actor(s), emphasizing their surroundings

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Long shot

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the moment when the main character becomes aware of an essential truth about himself or his situation; also called the recognition

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Discovery

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the moment when the main character is compelled to suffer a fate which is the opposite of his original desire; usually the immediate effect of the discovery

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Reversal (of fortune)

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The term describing what a film camera records in a single stretch of time is:

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a shot.

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A cinematographer wants to film a business man walking down a city street and comically slipping on a banana peel. Which of the following shots would he most likely choose to record the action?

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A medium long shot.

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Such shots are used extensively in chase scenes.

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Follow shots.

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A film that is a purely artistic expression of light, color, form, shape and movement is considered ______________.

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absolute cinema

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_______________ is the process of transferring a film's screenplay from a written to a visual form.

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Storyboarding

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Visual effects staff use this to film actors against and then change background locations.

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Green screen.

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Screenplays can be original, or _____________ of existing works such as plays, novels, comic books, cartoons, or video games.

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adaptations

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The moment of greatest dramatic tension or suspense in a screenplay is called:

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the turning point

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The basic technology required to create the illusion of a moving image was in place by:

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1895

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Vertical camera movement is called:

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tilting

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A pan performed with such speed that the screen shows a horizontal blur, used in action films, is called:

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The whip pan