Film 1005 Final Project Presentation

Film class final review

Materials to Review for the Final Exam         Spring 2013

I.  Essay question: Sound

ü  Be able to talk about dialogue, music, and sound effects.  

Diegetic: Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film.

Non-diegetic: Sound that does not have its source in the world of the character.  

Synchronous: Sound that is recorded during a scene or that is synchronized with the filmed images.

Asynchronous: A term that describes sound that does not have a visible onscreen source.

ü  Be sure you can talk about how sound interactions with an aspect of editing, mise-en-scène, and cinematography

For example, in an action film, the music might be really fast, and complemented by quick cuts (editing), close ups of the heroes face to see his/her expression of focus (cinematography), and the setting (mise) would a city, where the special effects might be car horns to express the hustle/ bustle of the city.

*** Dialogue – how they express their feelings. How do they create mood or meaning, connect it with Mise en Scence.

***Music: Music that comes from an onscreen source, It allows audiences to experience the film in an immediate and enveloping way, it can reinforce story information through recognizable conventions, and it can make specific events feel timeless.

*** Sound effect:  Can contribute to mood or atmosphere, can create an impression of three-dimensional space, and can help audiences keep track of the action aurally

Ex.) Horror films have creepy music, low key lightening, which is eventually creating suspense.

II.  Questions you should be familiar with: (T/F or Matching)

1.      What year was the term “documentary” coined?  Who coined it?  What is the title of  his film?
1926 coined by, John Grierson, because of this: Nanook of the North, directed by Robert Flaherty. 

2.      What year marks the start of the French New Wave?
1959

3.      What was the first French New Wave film in 1959?
Four hundred blows

4.      Which Italian Neorealist filmmaker was most popular with American audiences?
Vittorio De Sica

5.      From which national cinema does the dialectical montage come?
Soviet or Russian Montage

6.      What are some characteristics of German Expressionism?
Low-key lighting, used for horror film.

7.      What decade did the Third Cinema span?  What are it’s characteristics?

60s-70s. It rejected technical perfection, commercial cinema (Hollywood), and the auteur cinema. It directly address the people. They created the Manifesto – Fernando Solanas / Octavio Getino

8.      What term describes the rise and fall of genre popularity?

Cycles.

9.      In The American Nightmare, what trends were happening when the zombie film began?

Disco movement & capital consumerism

10.  What is Carol Clover’s concept of the Final Girl?

Strong female standing.

11.  What term refers to a documentary that is often staged and humorous, yet generally realistic?

Mock-u-mentary

12.  What is the name of the organization that started the censorship guidelines in the 1930s?

Hayes Office

13.  Name an example of a Non-diegetic element?

Background music, credits, inner-titles,

14.  How would you describe the Classical Hollywood narrative? What is the purpose of the deadline structure in a film?

·         2 protagonists.

·         Tension, excitement.

·         3-part structure: Beginning, Middle, and End.

·         Linear platform,

·         Omnificent and restricted narration, that lends some realism to the film. It adds excitements, is the purpose.

15.  What are the “problems” with the auteur theory?  In what country did it originate?

·         It forgets that the film is a collaborative meeting. Also, creates a hierarchy. it was originated in France.

16.  What journal do we associate with the French New Wave?  Who founded it?

·         Cahrer du cinema, by Andre Bazin

17.  What term describes the alternative narrative forms that emerged in the 1950s?
New wave.

18.  What is a hybrid genre?

It is composed of 2 different genres. Example: Horror and Musical.

19.  What is cinema verite?

Confrontation (in your face) documentary style, from France.

20.  What term describes the images that we associate with particular genres?  These images are specific to certain genres.

Iconography.

21.  What does the term “canon” mean in relationship to film studies?

List of popular, essential films.

22.  Which female director is associated with the Left Bank division of the French New Wave?

Agnes Varda

23.  What was the purpose of the Motion Picture Production Code?

·         Regulate movie contents, depiction of sex, crime, etc…

·         Year was 1930-1960

24.  What are the characteristics of the Italian Neorealist film style?
Realistic dialogue
Non-professional actors
On location.

25.   Define German expressionism.
Dark psychology of the people
Low-key lighting

III. Short answer

1. Be sure that you've seen Run, Lola, Run, know it’s narrative structure, and can think of some themes of the film.

·         3-part structure.

·         Themes: Strong female lead character, Many selling drugs, concluding high unemployment in Germany, fragmentation of the family, parents who are having affairs.

2. Be familiar with what the HUAC and the Hollywood Ten are.
HUAC (House an-American Activities Committee) was a committee set up to uncover communists activity in Hollywood.
Hollywood Ten: Screenwriters, who went to prison.

Be able to talk about Sergei Eisenstein, the dialectical montage, and it’s purpose, which makes it different from the Hollywood montage.

·         Eisenstein is a Russian filmmaker.

·         A (image)  + B (image)  = C (idea)

·         Hollywood was about entertainment.

3. Be familiar with the Paramount decision of 1948.

It ended the monopolization of the studio, by making them sell their theater to private owners.

4. Explain how films change when the Production Code was dissolved in 1968.

            A lot more sex, violence, gang-violence, nudity, and drug-use. 

The Film Experience 1005_Final Presentation

Chapter 10 Hollywood and Beyond Quiz

1.      The filmmaker Maya Deren is well known for her contributions to--------

a)      New German cinema

b)      Hollywood studio film

c)      American avant-garde film

d)     French New Wave

2.      As developed by director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein, the linking of conflicting images to generate an emotional, intellectual, and political understanding of events is called-----

a)      Cinema of attractions

b)      Poetic realism

c)      Dialectical montage

d)     Jump cuts

3.      The production Code Administration was established in 1934 to ----

a)      Ensure that films did not go over budget

b)      Act as union representation for actor’s rights

c)      Enforce asset of guidelines restricting depictions of crime, sex, and other questionable topics in movies

d)     Question writers and directors about their involvement with communism

4.      The period in film history from roughly 1895 to 1913, which was marked by rapid development and experimentation, is known as ----

a)      Classical cinema

b)      Avant-garde cinema

c)      Early cinema

d)     Expressionist cinema

5.      Films that have survived though time but have been neglected or abandoned by their owners or copyright holders are called-------

a)      Actualities

b)      Orphan film

c)      Primitive films

d)     Documentaries

6.      The act of dividing film history into historical segments that help identify movies’ shared thematic and stylistic concerns is called-----

a)      Periodization

b)      Masterpiece analysis

c)      Economic historicism

d)     Vertical integration

7.      A critically or popularly accepted list of essential works is called-----

a)      A syllabus

b)      A canon

c)      A genre

d)     Auteurism

8.      In 1969, Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino wrote which manifesto?

a)      “The surrealist Manifesto”

b)      “Towards a Third Cinema”

c)      “The Oberhausen Manifesto”

d)     “The Fururist Manifesto”

9.      Movies that depicted a darker side of teenagers and the American family, like Rebel Without Cause, appeared in Hollywood during the ----

a)      1930s

b)      1950s

c)      1960s

d)     1990s

10.  The 1948 Supreme Court ruling that effectively ended the studios’ monopolization of the film industry is referred to as the ----

a)      Hays Offense

b)      Paramount decision

c)      Production Code

d)     HUAC

11.  The standardization of film production and the establishment of the feature film in Hollywood occurred during the -----period.

a)      Classical silent

b)      Postwar cinema

c)      Early cinema

d)     Contemporary cinema

Chapter 9 Genres Quiz

1.      According to the textbook, which of the following are comedy film subgenres?

a)      Slapstick, intellect, romantic

b)      Slapstick, screwball, romantic

c)      Screwball, parody, sitcom

d)     Screwball, family, romantic

The answer is b

2.      Which of the following is an accurate statement about generic conventions?

a)      Generic conventions are the character types, settings, and props that identify specific genres.

b)      When generic conventions are put into motion as part of a plot, they become generic formula.

c)      Generic conventions include iconography – images patterns with specific connotations

d)     All of the options are correct

The answer is d

3.      A visual style marked by darkness and shadowy lighting, convoluted plots, and morally ambiguous characters such as the femme fatale are characteristics of what type of crime film?

a)      Film noir

b)      Gangster film

c)      Hard-boiled detective film

d)     Slasher film

The answer is a

4.      -----consider a film as a product of changing historical and cultural contexts that modify genre conventions and formulas.

a)      Prescriptive paradigms

b)      Classical genre traditions

c)      Structural paradigms

d)     Revisionist genre traditions

The answer is d

5.      Slasher films such as Texas Chain Massacre (1974) are best described as ------horror films.

a)      Supernatural

b)      Physical

c)      Psychological

d)     Gothic

The answer is b

6.      Which of the following is NOT an assumption characteristic of a descriptive approach to film gente?

a)      Successful genre films build upon older films.

b)      Genres develop and change over time

c)      Successful genre films deviate as little as possible form the genre model.

d)     Viewer’s prize genres for different reasons

The answer is c

7.      According to the textbook, which of the following is NOT a type of melodrama?

a)      Family

b)      Physical

c)      Social

d)     Antisocial

The answer is d

8.      The outsider characters in crime films represent……….

a)      What we socially reject as supporters of the status quo

b)      What we physically or psychologically fear

c)      What we, as supporters of the status quo, wish we could become

d)     What our darkest fantasies look like

The answer is a

9.      Film genres produced by the interaction of two or more different genres are -----

a)      Generic constellations

b)      Subgenres

c)      Generic paradigms

d)     Hybrid genres

The answer is d

10.  Disney animated films such as the Little Maid (1989) are most prominently a part of the ------genre.

a)      Western

b)      Horror

c)      Musical

d)     Drama

The answer is c

11.  The term that best describes images or images patterns with specific connotations or meaning is -----

a)      Generic formula

b)      Stereotypes

c)      Iconography

d)     Archetypes

The answer is c

1. A film genre is:

 a. a set of rules to follow implemented by studios during the studio system

 b. a set of conventions and formulas, repeated and developed throughout film history

 c. a term introduced when sound came to film to distinguish between a silent film and a talkie

 d. none of the above

The answer is b.

2. Which of the following areas did NOT have genres that were a predecessor of film genres?

 a. literature

 b. art

 c. photography

 d. television

The answer is d.

3. Generic conventions are:

 a. rules of thumb when writing a genre film

 b. properties or figures that identify a genre

 c. both a and b

 d. neither a nor b

The answer is b.

4. A genre film such as a western may be __________.

 a. traditional or revisionist

 b. avant-garde or experimental

 c. sad and unrealistic

 d. all of the above

The answer is a.

5. Dark and shadow lighting, convoluted plots, and complex and flawed characters caught up in crime are all characteristics of what type of film?

 a. film noir

 b. European independent films

 c. neorealistic films

 d. horror films

The answer is a.

6. Which of the following is NOT a function of generic categories?

 a. to provide models for producing other works

 b. to direct audience expectations

 c. to create categories for evaluating a work

 d. to determine the films that audiences like best

The answer is d.

7. What did the Paramount Decision of 1948 do?

 a. Ruled that major movie studios violated antitrust laws

 b. Ruled that all movie studios had to assign film ratings

 c. Ruled that major movie studios could not put certain content in films

 d. Ruled that it was illegal for movie studios to make the same movies over and over

The answer is a.

8. Which of the following is a subgenre?

 a. comedy

 b. melodrama

 c. gangster films

 d. musical

The answer is c.

9. Creators of early cinema:

 a. already knew about genres

 b. had to develop genres

 c. didn't make genre films

 d. none of the above

The answer is a.

10. The root meaning of genres is:

 a. organize

 b. separate

 c. kind

 d. variety

The answer is c.

11. Images or image patterns with specific connotations or meanings are:

 a. archetypes

 b. stereotypes

 c. generic conventions

 d. iconography

The answer is d.

12. How do generic formulas get formed?

 a. when the studios figure out which genre formulas audience like best

 b. when generic conventions are put in motion as part of the plot

 c. when isolated properties or figures that identify a genre are repeated from film to film

 d. all of the above

The answer is b.

13. Generic expectations are:

 a. another word for generic formulas

 b. not necessary in considering the audience's reaction to a movie

 c. when a viewer anticipates the meaning of particular conventions

 d. none of the above

The answer is c.

14. The golden years of American film genre began to decline when ___________.

 a. the recycling of genres became popular

 b. audiences bored of seeing genre films

 c. the Paramount Decision of 1948 occurred

 d. independent filmmakers started gaining clout in Hollywood

The answer is c.

15. Film genres produced by the interaction of different genres are ________.

 a. generic constellations

 b. subgenres

 c. a generic paradigm

 d. hybrid genres

The answer is d.

16. Which genre can develop intricate plots but focuses on individual vignettes?

 a. horror films

 b. comedies

 c. melodrama

 d. crime films

The answer is b.

17. Which genre was not particularly respected early on?

 a. horror films

 b. melodramas

 c. westerns

 d. musicals

The answer is c.

18. Currently, which of the following is NOT a conventional subgenre of horror film?

 a. supernatural horror films

 b. slasher horror films

 c. screwball horror films

 d. psychological horror films

The answer is c.

19. Film genres:

 a. are no longer examined in detail because they've been used so long

 b. force films to conform to strict categories

 c. are still a critical measure of audience expectation

 d. all of the above

The answer is c.

20. _____________ is clearly and visibly engaged in commenting on the formal play with the generic paradigms that preceded them.

 a. Generic replacement

 b. Generic reflexivity

 c. Generic expectation

 d. Generic formula

The answer is b.

Film Experience: Chapter 6 - Narrative Quiz

Chapter 6 Narrative

Narrative         a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events

Screenplays     The scripts for films. They include camera angles and can allow for more scene changes than a stage play.

Intertitles         mostly associated with silent films, images that present printed information or dialogue about the images before or after an intertitle

Plot      sequence of events in a story

Characters       Central or minor figures that focus or motivate the events of the story.

Character Coherence   the product of different psychological, historical, or other expectations that see people as fundamentally consistent and unique

Character Depth          a way of referring to personal mysteries and intricacies that deepen and layer the dimensions of a complicated personality

Protagonist      the principal character in a work of fiction

Antagonist      A character or force in conflict with the main character

Archetype       A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response

Stereotype       a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people

Character Development          The ways in which a character changes and evolves throughout a story, often as a result of some conflict within the story.

Diegesis           In a narrative film, the world of the film's story. the diegesis includes events that are presumed to have occurred and actions and spaces not shown onscreen.

Nondiegetic    elements that don't belong to the space or world of the story (example: credits)

Linear Chronology      Plot events and actions that proceed one after another as a forward movement in time

Plot Order       exposition, inciting incedent, conflict, rising action, climax, denoument, falling action, resolution, theme. point of view

Deadline Structure      A narrative structure that accelerates the action and plot toward a central event or action that must be accomplished by a certain time.

Narrative Duration      The length of time an event or action is presented in the plot.

Narrative Frequency   Describes how often the plot elements are repeatedly shown

Narrative Location      Refers to the indoor, outdoor, natural, and artificial spaces that not only serve as backgrounds for stories, but also take on cultural and social significance as characters explore these spaces, contrast them, conquer them, inhabit them, leave them, build on them, and transform them.

Narration         The organizing perspective through which plots are constructed is referred to as narration.

First-Person Narration a narrative in which the narrator tells the story from his/her own point of view and refers to him/herself as "I"; active participant in novel or observer

Narrative Frame          inserting one or more small stories within the body of a larger story that encompasses the smaller ones.

Third-Person Narration           An all-knowing narrator who is not a character in the story. The narrator can present the point of view of any character at any given time.

Omniscient Narration  where the plot is presented from all angles

Restricted Narration   Where one or two major characters are the focus

Reflexive Narration    The movie calls attention to the narrative point of view in order to subvert its narrative authority.

Unreliable Narration   Which raises questions about the truth of the narrative

Multiple Narrations     Several perspectives are used to tell a story.

Classical Film Narrative          Centered around one main character who moves the plot along with a cause-and-effect logic.

Postclassical Narration            A global body of films that began to appear in the decades after WW2 and that strained but maintained the classical formula for coherent characters and plots.

Alternative Narrative FIlm     Deviates from or challenges linear narratives, undermines the centrality of a main character, and questions the objective realism of classical narration.

1. In a narrative film, the world of the film's story. the diegesis includes events that are presumed to have occurred and actions and spaces not shown onscreen.

ANSWER: Diegesis

2. a narrative in which the narrator tells the story from his/her own point of view and refers to him/herself as "I"; active participant in novel or observer

ANSWER: First-Person Narration

3. The length of time an event or action is presented in the plot.

ANSWER: Narrative Duration

4. The ways in which a character changes and evolves throughout a story, often as a result of some conflict within the story.

ANSWER: Character Development

5. a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people

ANSWER: Stereotype

5 Matching Questions

1. Character Depth: a way of referring to personal mysteries and intricacies that deepen and layer the dimensions of a complicated personality
2. Unreliable Narration: Which raises questions about the truth of the narrative
3. Linear Chronology: Plot events and actions that proceed one after another as a forward movement in time
4. Plot Order: exposition, inciting incedent, conflict, rising action, climax, denoument, falling action, resolution, theme. point of view
5. Narrative Location: Refers to the indoor, outdoor, natural, and artificial spaces that not only serve as backgrounds for stories, but also take on cultural and social significance as characters explore these spaces, contrast them, conquer them, inhabit them, leave them, build on them, and transform them.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response
1. Narrative
2. Stereotype
3. CORRECT: Archetype
4. Narration
2. An all-knowing narrator who is not a character in the story. The narrator can present the point of view of any character at any given time.
1. Omniscient Narration
2. First-Person Narration
3. Reflexive Narration
4. CORRECT: Third-Person Narration
3. where the plot is presented from all angles
1. Reflexive Narration
2. Multiple Narrations
3. Unreliable Narration
4. CORRECT: Omniscient Narration
4. the product of different psychological, historical, or other expectations that see people as fundamentally consistent and unique
1. CORRECT: Character Coherence
2. Characters
3. Character Depth
4. Character Development
5. the principal character in a work of fiction
1. Antagonist
2. Plot Order
3. Diegesis
4. CORRECT: Protagonist

5 True/False Questions

1. Antagonist → the principal character in a work of fiction

CORRECT: This is false.

It should be Antagonist → A character or force in conflict with the main character.

2. Narration → The organizing perspective through which plots are constructed is referred to as narration.

CORRECT: This is true.

3. Restricted Narration → The movie calls attention to the narrative point of view in order to subvert its narrative authority.

CORRECT: This is false.

It should be Restricted Narration → Where one or two major characters are the focus.

4. Intertitles → mostly associated with silent films, images that present printed information or dialogue about the images before or after an intertitle

CORRECT: This is true.

5. Characters → a way of referring to personal mysteries and intricacies that deepen and layer the dimensions of a complicated personality

CORRECT: This is false.

It should be Characters → Central or minor figures that focus or motivate the events of the story..

1. The scripts for films. They include camera angles and can allow for more scene changes than a stage play.

CORRECT: Screenplays

2. A global body of films that began to appear in the decades after WW2 and that strained but maintained the classical formula for coherent characters and plots.

ANSWER: Postclassical Narration

3. where the plot is presented from all angles

CORRECT: Omniscient Narration

4. An all-knowing narrator who is not a character in the story. The narrator can present the point of view of any character at any given time.

ANSWER: Third-Person Narration

5. a way of referring to personal mysteries and intricacies that deepen and layer the dimensions of a complicated personality

ANSWER: Character Depth

5 Matching Questions

1. Characters: Central or minor figures that focus or motivate the events of the story.
2. Stereotype: a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people
3. Narrative Frequency: Describes how often the plot elements are repeatedly shown
4. Character Coherence: the product of different psychological, historical, or other expectations that see people as fundamentally consistent and unique
5. Character Development: The ways in which a character changes and evolves throughout a story, often as a result of some conflict within the story.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Refers to the indoor, outdoor, natural, and artificial spaces that not only serve as backgrounds for stories, but also take on cultural and social significance as characters explore these spaces, contrast them, conquer them, inhabit them, leave them, build on them, and transform them.
1. Narration
2. Narrative Frame
3. CORRECT: Narrative Location
4. Narrative Duration
2. Centered around one main character who moves the plot along with a cause-and-effect logic.
1. Omniscient Narration
2. Postclassical Narration
3. Unreliable Narration
4. CORRECT: Classical Film Narrative
3. mostly associated with silent films, images that present printed information or dialogue about the images before or after an intertitle
1. Narrative
2. Stereotype
3. CORRECT: Intertitles
4. Characters
4. the principal character in a work of fiction
1. CORRECT: Protagonist
2. Antagonist
3. Plot Order
4. Plot
5. The movie calls attention to the narrative point of view in order to subvert its narrative authority.
1. Restricted Narration
2. Unreliable Narration
3. CORRECT: Reflexive Narration
4. Multiple Narrations

5 True/False Questions

1. First-Person Narration → a narrative in which the narrator tells the story from his/her own point of view and refers to him/herself as "I"; active participant in novel or observer

CORRECT: This is true.

2. Plot Order → exposition, inciting incedent, conflict, rising action, climax, denoument, falling action, resolution, theme. point of view

CORRECT: This is true.

3. Narrative → The organizing perspective through which plots are constructed is referred to as narration.

CORRECT: This is false.

It should be Narrative → a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events.

4. Narration → The organizing perspective through which plots are constructed is referred to as narration.

CORRECT: This is true.

5. Nondiegetic → elements that don't belong to the space or world of the story (example: credits)

CORRECT: This is true.