Looking at Movies Chapter 2: Principles of Film Form – Quiz
mise-en-scène - correct answer ✔✔The arrangement of everything that appears in the framing,
the overall look and feel of a movie- the sum of everything the audience sees, hears and
experiences while viewing it. One element of film that composes design elements such as
lighting, setting, props, costumes, and makeup within individual shots.
Sound - correct answer ✔✔An elemental system. Refers to everything we hear in a movie —
words, sound effects, and music. It is used in film to heighten a mood, provide us with
information about the location of a scene, advance the plot, and tell us about the characters in
the story.
Narrative - correct answer ✔✔The formal arrangement of the events that make up the story.
The analysis of story elements, plot structure, character motivations, & theme. Structured into
acts that establish, develop & resolve character conflict.
Editing - correct answer ✔✔Juxtaposes individual shots to create sequences, arranges these
sequences into scenes & from these scenes build a movie
Shots - correct answer ✔✔The product of one uninterrupted run of the camera.
Sequences - correct answer ✔✔A series of edited shots unified by theme or purpose.
Scenes - correct answer ✔✔Complete units of plot action incorporating one or more shots; the
setting of that action.
Content - correct answer ✔✔The subject of an artwork (what the work is about). Provides
something to express.
, Form - correct answer ✔✔The means by which that subject is expressed and experienced. Used
to express that subject & meaning: decor, patterns, implied proximity, a point of view, moving
camera, sound. It supplies the methods and techniques necessary to present it to the audience.
Reason why form and content is often paired - correct answer ✔✔Content provides something
to express; form supplies the methods and techniques necessary to present it to the audience.
Form lets us see the content in a particular way.
Form enables the artist to shape our particular experience and interpretation of that content.
Cinematic Language - correct answer ✔✔The tools and techniques filmmakers use to convey
meaning and mood to the viewer, including lighting, mise-en-scéne, cinematography,
performance, editing, and sound. The accepted systems, methods or customs by which movies
communicate with the viewers
Juno Example of content - correct answer ✔✔Juno thinking about fingernails & changing her
mind.
The relationship between form and content - correct answer ✔✔They can help us to distinguish
one work of art from another or to compare the styles & visions of different artists approaching
the subject
Semiotic - correct answer ✔✔A useful analytical tool for studying the ways by which visual
images form a system for the communication of meaning. Analysis of meaning behind signs &
symbols used.
Example: What is repeated, in what context does the object appear, what does the object
represent?
Contextual - correct answer ✔✔Places film in a broader context & examines what film says
about the culture that created it & the time period that it was created in.
Example: How does the meaning of the film change when seen outside of its culture, What
characteristics distinguish the film as being of its particular culture.
mise-en-scène - correct answer ✔✔The arrangement of everything that appears in the framing,
the overall look and feel of a movie- the sum of everything the audience sees, hears and
experiences while viewing it. One element of film that composes design elements such as
lighting, setting, props, costumes, and makeup within individual shots.
Sound - correct answer ✔✔An elemental system. Refers to everything we hear in a movie —
words, sound effects, and music. It is used in film to heighten a mood, provide us with
information about the location of a scene, advance the plot, and tell us about the characters in
the story.
Narrative - correct answer ✔✔The formal arrangement of the events that make up the story.
The analysis of story elements, plot structure, character motivations, & theme. Structured into
acts that establish, develop & resolve character conflict.
Editing - correct answer ✔✔Juxtaposes individual shots to create sequences, arranges these
sequences into scenes & from these scenes build a movie
Shots - correct answer ✔✔The product of one uninterrupted run of the camera.
Sequences - correct answer ✔✔A series of edited shots unified by theme or purpose.
Scenes - correct answer ✔✔Complete units of plot action incorporating one or more shots; the
setting of that action.
Content - correct answer ✔✔The subject of an artwork (what the work is about). Provides
something to express.
, Form - correct answer ✔✔The means by which that subject is expressed and experienced. Used
to express that subject & meaning: decor, patterns, implied proximity, a point of view, moving
camera, sound. It supplies the methods and techniques necessary to present it to the audience.
Reason why form and content is often paired - correct answer ✔✔Content provides something
to express; form supplies the methods and techniques necessary to present it to the audience.
Form lets us see the content in a particular way.
Form enables the artist to shape our particular experience and interpretation of that content.
Cinematic Language - correct answer ✔✔The tools and techniques filmmakers use to convey
meaning and mood to the viewer, including lighting, mise-en-scéne, cinematography,
performance, editing, and sound. The accepted systems, methods or customs by which movies
communicate with the viewers
Juno Example of content - correct answer ✔✔Juno thinking about fingernails & changing her
mind.
The relationship between form and content - correct answer ✔✔They can help us to distinguish
one work of art from another or to compare the styles & visions of different artists approaching
the subject
Semiotic - correct answer ✔✔A useful analytical tool for studying the ways by which visual
images form a system for the communication of meaning. Analysis of meaning behind signs &
symbols used.
Example: What is repeated, in what context does the object appear, what does the object
represent?
Contextual - correct answer ✔✔Places film in a broader context & examines what film says
about the culture that created it & the time period that it was created in.
Example: How does the meaning of the film change when seen outside of its culture, What
characteristics distinguish the film as being of its particular culture.
