TFM 160 FINAL SDSU STUDY GUIDE
Implicit Meaning - Answers -Internal Meaning, Implied
Explicit Meaning - Answers -Literal Meaning, definition
Form - Answers -Cinematic Language, how the SUBJECT is expressed
Content - Answers -The actual subject
Formal Analysis - Answers -Dissecting everything in a film (cinematography, sound,
composition, design, movement, performance, editing)
Theme - Answers -Shared public idea
Realism - Answers -Actual or real
Antirealism - Answers -Abstract, Fantastic
Cinematic Language - Answers -Not of words but of myriad integrated techniques and
concepts, connects us to the story while deliberately concealing the means by which it
does
1. Manipulate space and time
2. Provide an illusion of movement
3. Movies depend on light - Answers -What are the three fundamental principles of film
form?
Genre - Answers -Categorization of films
Narrative, documentary, experimental - Answers -What are the three categories of
movies explored in "Types of Movies"
Narrative - Answers -Fiction
Documentary - Answers -Recording reality
Experimental - Answers -Non commercial, non conforming
What are the three basic types of animation? - Answers -Hand-drawn, stop-motion, and
digital
Omniscient Narration - Answers -Narrator knows all and can provide anything about
ANY character
, Restricted Narration - Answers -Reveals info to the audience only as specific character
learns it
Protagonist - Answers -Primary character who determines the story's structure
Antagonist - Answers -Person, creature, force, obstructing the protagonist
Anti-Hero - Answers -Protagonist chasing less noble goals
Inciting Incident (Catalyst) - Answers -Presents the character with the goal that will
drive the rest of the narrative
Rising Action - Answers -Narrative builds toward a peak, breaking point
Crisis - Answers -Insurmountable obstacle, narrative peak
Climax - Answers -Comes when protagonist faces major obstacle
Resolution - Answers -Third act of falling action. narrative wraps up any loose ties
Story - Answers -All the explicit and implicit narrative events and the diegesis. IMPLIED
EVENTS
Plot - Answers -Specific actions and events in the order in which they are arranged
including non-diegetic elements
Diegesis
-Total world of the story,
-Events, characters, objects, settings, and sound that form the world
Diegetic
-Elements that make up the world that the story takes place in
Non Diegetic
-Things we see and hear on the screen that come from outside the world of the story
-Score music, titles and credits, third person voice over narrator - Answers -What is
meant by the diegesis of a story? What is the difference between diegetic and
nondiegetic elements in the plot?
Story
-Implied events and explicitly presented events
-all the narrative events that are explicitly presented on-screen
-all the events that are implicit or that we infer to have happened but are not explicitly
present in the movie
Implicit Meaning - Answers -Internal Meaning, Implied
Explicit Meaning - Answers -Literal Meaning, definition
Form - Answers -Cinematic Language, how the SUBJECT is expressed
Content - Answers -The actual subject
Formal Analysis - Answers -Dissecting everything in a film (cinematography, sound,
composition, design, movement, performance, editing)
Theme - Answers -Shared public idea
Realism - Answers -Actual or real
Antirealism - Answers -Abstract, Fantastic
Cinematic Language - Answers -Not of words but of myriad integrated techniques and
concepts, connects us to the story while deliberately concealing the means by which it
does
1. Manipulate space and time
2. Provide an illusion of movement
3. Movies depend on light - Answers -What are the three fundamental principles of film
form?
Genre - Answers -Categorization of films
Narrative, documentary, experimental - Answers -What are the three categories of
movies explored in "Types of Movies"
Narrative - Answers -Fiction
Documentary - Answers -Recording reality
Experimental - Answers -Non commercial, non conforming
What are the three basic types of animation? - Answers -Hand-drawn, stop-motion, and
digital
Omniscient Narration - Answers -Narrator knows all and can provide anything about
ANY character
, Restricted Narration - Answers -Reveals info to the audience only as specific character
learns it
Protagonist - Answers -Primary character who determines the story's structure
Antagonist - Answers -Person, creature, force, obstructing the protagonist
Anti-Hero - Answers -Protagonist chasing less noble goals
Inciting Incident (Catalyst) - Answers -Presents the character with the goal that will
drive the rest of the narrative
Rising Action - Answers -Narrative builds toward a peak, breaking point
Crisis - Answers -Insurmountable obstacle, narrative peak
Climax - Answers -Comes when protagonist faces major obstacle
Resolution - Answers -Third act of falling action. narrative wraps up any loose ties
Story - Answers -All the explicit and implicit narrative events and the diegesis. IMPLIED
EVENTS
Plot - Answers -Specific actions and events in the order in which they are arranged
including non-diegetic elements
Diegesis
-Total world of the story,
-Events, characters, objects, settings, and sound that form the world
Diegetic
-Elements that make up the world that the story takes place in
Non Diegetic
-Things we see and hear on the screen that come from outside the world of the story
-Score music, titles and credits, third person voice over narrator - Answers -What is
meant by the diegesis of a story? What is the difference between diegetic and
nondiegetic elements in the plot?
Story
-Implied events and explicitly presented events
-all the narrative events that are explicitly presented on-screen
-all the events that are implicit or that we infer to have happened but are not explicitly
present in the movie
