TFM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Direct Address Narration - Answers -onscreen character looks and speaks directly to
the audience
Omniscient Narration - Answers -providing a third person view of all aspects of a
movies action or characters
Antagonist - Answers -the character that obstructs or resists the protagonists pursuit of
his or her goal
Anti-Hero - Answers -an outwardly unsympthethic protagonist pursuing a morally
objectionable or otherwise undesirable goal
Inciting Incident (Catalyst) - Answers -the narrative event that presents the protagonist
with a goal that sets the rest of the narrative in motion
Diegesis - Answers -total thing of a story- events, characters, objects, setting, and
sounds- that form the world in which the the story occurs
Diegetic Element - Answers -an element- event, character, object, setting, sound- that
helps form the world in which the story occurs
Nondiegetic element - Answers -something that we see and hear on the screen that
comes from outside the world of the story, such as background music, titles and credits
and voice-over narration
Flat Characters - Answers -uncomplicated character that exhibiting few distant traits. do
not change throughout the story much
Plot Duration - Answers -elapsed time of events within a story that a film chooses to tell
Resolution - Answers -the concluding narrative events that follow the climax and
celebrate, or otherwise reflect reflect upon, story outcomes. Also, the capacity of the
camera lens, film stock, and processing to provide fine detail in an image
round character - Answers -a complex character with numerous traits. often develop
over the course of the story
screen duration - Answers -the amount of running time of a movie
story duration - Answers -implied amount of time taken by the entire narrative arc of a
movies story
, Surprise - Answers -A taking unawareness that is potentially shocking. compare
suspense
Suspense - Answers -the anxiety brought on by partial uncertainly
Chiaroscuro - Answers -use of deep gradations and subtle variations of lights and
darks with an image
Blocking - Answers -the actual physical relationships among figures and settings. also,
the process during rehersal of establishing those establishments
Framing - Answers -the cinematographer determines what will appear within the
borders of the moving image
Familiar Image - Answers -any image that a director periodically repeats in a movie to
help stabilize the narrative
Properties (props) - Answers -objects used to enhance a movie misce en scene by
providing physical tokens of narrative information
kinesis - Answers -the aspect of composition that takes into account everything that
moves on the screen
sound stage - Answers -a windowless, soundproofed, professional shooting
environment that is usually several stories high and can cover an acre or more of floor
space
Aerial-view Shot (Bird's Eye View) - Answers -taken from air craft
Backlight - Answers -lighting, usually positioned behind and in line with the subject and
the camera, used to create highlights on the subject as a means of separate it from the
background and increasing its appearance of three dimensionality
Crane Shot - Answers -created by movement of a camera mounted on an elevating
arm that in turn is mounted in a whence that can move
Deep-space composition - Answers -an approach to composition within the frame that
places figures in all three planes of the frame, creating the illusion of depth
Deep- focus cinematography - Answers -the process of rendering the figures on all
planes of a deep space composition focus
Dutch-angle Shot - Answers -the camera os tilted from its normal horizontal and vertical
positions so that it is no longer straight, giving the impression that the world is out of
balance
Direct Address Narration - Answers -onscreen character looks and speaks directly to
the audience
Omniscient Narration - Answers -providing a third person view of all aspects of a
movies action or characters
Antagonist - Answers -the character that obstructs or resists the protagonists pursuit of
his or her goal
Anti-Hero - Answers -an outwardly unsympthethic protagonist pursuing a morally
objectionable or otherwise undesirable goal
Inciting Incident (Catalyst) - Answers -the narrative event that presents the protagonist
with a goal that sets the rest of the narrative in motion
Diegesis - Answers -total thing of a story- events, characters, objects, setting, and
sounds- that form the world in which the the story occurs
Diegetic Element - Answers -an element- event, character, object, setting, sound- that
helps form the world in which the story occurs
Nondiegetic element - Answers -something that we see and hear on the screen that
comes from outside the world of the story, such as background music, titles and credits
and voice-over narration
Flat Characters - Answers -uncomplicated character that exhibiting few distant traits. do
not change throughout the story much
Plot Duration - Answers -elapsed time of events within a story that a film chooses to tell
Resolution - Answers -the concluding narrative events that follow the climax and
celebrate, or otherwise reflect reflect upon, story outcomes. Also, the capacity of the
camera lens, film stock, and processing to provide fine detail in an image
round character - Answers -a complex character with numerous traits. often develop
over the course of the story
screen duration - Answers -the amount of running time of a movie
story duration - Answers -implied amount of time taken by the entire narrative arc of a
movies story
, Surprise - Answers -A taking unawareness that is potentially shocking. compare
suspense
Suspense - Answers -the anxiety brought on by partial uncertainly
Chiaroscuro - Answers -use of deep gradations and subtle variations of lights and
darks with an image
Blocking - Answers -the actual physical relationships among figures and settings. also,
the process during rehersal of establishing those establishments
Framing - Answers -the cinematographer determines what will appear within the
borders of the moving image
Familiar Image - Answers -any image that a director periodically repeats in a movie to
help stabilize the narrative
Properties (props) - Answers -objects used to enhance a movie misce en scene by
providing physical tokens of narrative information
kinesis - Answers -the aspect of composition that takes into account everything that
moves on the screen
sound stage - Answers -a windowless, soundproofed, professional shooting
environment that is usually several stories high and can cover an acre or more of floor
space
Aerial-view Shot (Bird's Eye View) - Answers -taken from air craft
Backlight - Answers -lighting, usually positioned behind and in line with the subject and
the camera, used to create highlights on the subject as a means of separate it from the
background and increasing its appearance of three dimensionality
Crane Shot - Answers -created by movement of a camera mounted on an elevating
arm that in turn is mounted in a whence that can move
Deep-space composition - Answers -an approach to composition within the frame that
places figures in all three planes of the frame, creating the illusion of depth
Deep- focus cinematography - Answers -the process of rendering the figures on all
planes of a deep space composition focus
Dutch-angle Shot - Answers -the camera os tilted from its normal horizontal and vertical
positions so that it is no longer straight, giving the impression that the world is out of
balance
