TFM 160 UNIT 1 STUDY GUIDE
implicit meaning - Answers -lies below the surface of a movie's story, is closest to our
everyday sense of the words meaning
Explicit meaning - Answers -The above surface of a movie, association, connection, or
inference that a view makes on the basis of the explicit meanings available on the
surface
How is implicit and explicit like onions and ogre - Answers -Onions have multiple
layers. Ogers are like onions because they have somemting below the surface
How can implicit and explicit meaning apply to Juno - Answers -The "implicit meaning"
of Juno could be a teenage girl faced with a difficult decision, and makes a step towards
adult hood.
Formal Analysis - Answers -dissects the complex cinematography, sound, composition,
design, movement, performance, and editing orchestrated by creative directors to
understand how to story, mood, and meaning was convaed
Cinematic language - Answers --The visual (and oral) vocabulary
-composed of myriad integrated techniques and concepts
-Connects the viewer to the story
Form - Answers -means by which the subject is expressed and experienced (How it is
presented)
Alternate approaches to analysis - Answers -exposes the implicit and hidden meaning
that inform our understanding of the cinematic function with popular culture as well as
the influences on popular cultural movies
Why is cinematic language "invisible" - Answers -early filmmakers created a cinematic
language that draws upon the way we interpret visual information in our real lives.
Allowing the audience pick up on things without the director saying anything. (In Juno
there are many shots from the bottom to show Juno as triumphant
Shot - Answers -an uninterrupted run of the camera. A shot can be as short or long as
the director wants, it can not exceed the length of the film stock in the camera
cut - Answers -A direct change from one shot to another, as a result of cutting
Editing - Answers -the process by which the editor combines and coordinates individual
shots into a cinematic whole.
close-up - Answers -a shot that shows a part of the body fully in frame
, fade in/fade out - Answers -a transitional device where a shot fades in out from a black
field or from a color film
low angle shot - Answers -made with the camera below the action, normally places the
subject in a position of importance
cutting action - Answers -connecting one shot to the next
protagonist - Answers -The primary character whose pursuit of the goal provides the
structural foundation of a movies story
motif - Answers -a recurring visual, sound, or narrative element that impacts meaning
and significance (In Juno it would be the group of boys running or the chair)
theme - Answers -a shared public idea, like a metaphor,
what is the difference between form and content - Answers -Content: the subject of an
artwork
Form: the means by which the subject is expressed
how do movies use patterns to convey meanings - Answers -movies use patterns to
confuse the audience and lead them in one direction and then change the storyline and
leave them unprepared
parallel editing - Answers -technique that makes different lines of action appear to be
occurring simultaneously. HAs the effect to create and set the mood.
What are the three fundamental principles of film form? - Answers --movies depends on
light
-movies provide an illustration of movement
- movies manipulate space and time in a unique way (done by the power of editing)
how do movies manipulate space - Answers -movies manipulate time by doing slow
motion or extream compression of vast swaths of time.
realism - Answers -an insert in or concern for the actual or real
anti realism - Answers -an interest in or concern for the abstract, speculative, or
fantistic
verisimilitude - Answers -a convincing appearance of truth
persistence of vision - Answers -the process by which the human brain retains an
image for a fraction of a second longer than the eye records it
implicit meaning - Answers -lies below the surface of a movie's story, is closest to our
everyday sense of the words meaning
Explicit meaning - Answers -The above surface of a movie, association, connection, or
inference that a view makes on the basis of the explicit meanings available on the
surface
How is implicit and explicit like onions and ogre - Answers -Onions have multiple
layers. Ogers are like onions because they have somemting below the surface
How can implicit and explicit meaning apply to Juno - Answers -The "implicit meaning"
of Juno could be a teenage girl faced with a difficult decision, and makes a step towards
adult hood.
Formal Analysis - Answers -dissects the complex cinematography, sound, composition,
design, movement, performance, and editing orchestrated by creative directors to
understand how to story, mood, and meaning was convaed
Cinematic language - Answers --The visual (and oral) vocabulary
-composed of myriad integrated techniques and concepts
-Connects the viewer to the story
Form - Answers -means by which the subject is expressed and experienced (How it is
presented)
Alternate approaches to analysis - Answers -exposes the implicit and hidden meaning
that inform our understanding of the cinematic function with popular culture as well as
the influences on popular cultural movies
Why is cinematic language "invisible" - Answers -early filmmakers created a cinematic
language that draws upon the way we interpret visual information in our real lives.
Allowing the audience pick up on things without the director saying anything. (In Juno
there are many shots from the bottom to show Juno as triumphant
Shot - Answers -an uninterrupted run of the camera. A shot can be as short or long as
the director wants, it can not exceed the length of the film stock in the camera
cut - Answers -A direct change from one shot to another, as a result of cutting
Editing - Answers -the process by which the editor combines and coordinates individual
shots into a cinematic whole.
close-up - Answers -a shot that shows a part of the body fully in frame
, fade in/fade out - Answers -a transitional device where a shot fades in out from a black
field or from a color film
low angle shot - Answers -made with the camera below the action, normally places the
subject in a position of importance
cutting action - Answers -connecting one shot to the next
protagonist - Answers -The primary character whose pursuit of the goal provides the
structural foundation of a movies story
motif - Answers -a recurring visual, sound, or narrative element that impacts meaning
and significance (In Juno it would be the group of boys running or the chair)
theme - Answers -a shared public idea, like a metaphor,
what is the difference between form and content - Answers -Content: the subject of an
artwork
Form: the means by which the subject is expressed
how do movies use patterns to convey meanings - Answers -movies use patterns to
confuse the audience and lead them in one direction and then change the storyline and
leave them unprepared
parallel editing - Answers -technique that makes different lines of action appear to be
occurring simultaneously. HAs the effect to create and set the mood.
What are the three fundamental principles of film form? - Answers --movies depends on
light
-movies provide an illustration of movement
- movies manipulate space and time in a unique way (done by the power of editing)
how do movies manipulate space - Answers -movies manipulate time by doing slow
motion or extream compression of vast swaths of time.
realism - Answers -an insert in or concern for the actual or real
anti realism - Answers -an interest in or concern for the abstract, speculative, or
fantistic
verisimilitude - Answers -a convincing appearance of truth
persistence of vision - Answers -the process by which the human brain retains an
image for a fraction of a second longer than the eye records it
