FILM FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
narrative - Answers - a story told by a narrator or conveyed by a narrational point of
view
scriptwriters - Answers - Individuals who create either original stories or adaptations
from novels, short stories or other sources as a film script.
screen play - Answers - the text from which a movie is made, including dialogue and
info about action, setting, etc; as well as shots and transitions; developed from a
treatment also known as script.
intertitles - Answers - printed text inserted between film images, typically used in silent
films to indicate dialogue and exposition and in contemporary films to indicate time and
place or other transitions.
classical film narrative - Answers - a style of narrative filmmaking centered on one or
more central characters who propel the plot with a cause and effect logic wherein an
action generates a reaction. Normally plots are developed with linear chronologies
directed at definite goals and the film employes an omniscient or a restricted their
person narration that suggests some degree of verisimilitude.
character coherence - Answers - a quality created within a fiction of characters
displaying behavior, emotions, and thoughts that appear consistent and coherent
character depth - Answers - a quality created within a fiction of characters displaying
psychological and social features that distinguish them as rounded and complex in a
way that approximates realistic human personalities.
protagonist - Answers - individuals identified as the positive forces in a film.
antagonist - Answers - characters who oppose the protagonists as negative forces
archetype - Answers - an orignal model or type, such as satan as an archetype of evil
stereotype - Answers - a character type that simplifies and standardizes perception that
one group hold about another, often less numerous, powerful, or privileged group.
character development - Answers - the patterns through which characters in a particular
film move from one mental, physical or social state to another.
diegesis - Answers - a term that refers to the world of films story including not only what
is shown but also what is implied to have taken place. it comes from the Greek world
meaning narration
, nondiegetic - Answers - an insert that depicts an action object, or title origination outside
of the space and time of the narrative world.
linear chronology - Answers - plot events and actions that proceed one after another as
a forward movement of time
deadline structure - Answers - a narrative structure that accelerates the action and plot
toward a central event or action that must be accomplished by a certain time.
narrative frequency - Answers - how often certain plot elements are repeated
narration - Answers - the telling of a story or description of a situation; the emotional,
physical, or intellect perspective through which the characters, events, and action of the
plot are conveyed. In film, it is most explicit when provided as asynchronous verbal
commentary on the action or images, but it ca also designate the storytelling function of
the camera, the editing, and the verbal and other soundtracks.
story - Answers - the subject matter or raw material of a narrative, or our reconstruction
of the events of a narrative based on what is explicitly shown and ordered in the plot.
characters - Answers - individuals who motivate the vents and perform the actions of the
story.
plot - Answers - the narrative ordering of the vents of the story as they appear in the
actual work, selected and arranged according to particular temporal, spatial, generic,
causal or other patterns; in narratology, also known in Russian as syuzhet.
narratology - Answers - the study of narrative forms, encompassing stories of all kinds,
including films; from the Russian form are derived the terms fabula (story), al the vents
included in a tae or imagined by the reader or viewer in order in which they are
assumed to have occurred and syuzhet (plot), the ordering of narrative events in the
particular narrative.
first person narration - Answers - narration that is identified with a single individual
typically a character in the film.
third person narration - Answers - a narration that assumes an objective and detached
stance vis-a-vis the plot and characters, describing events from outside the story.
narrative frame - Answers - a context or person positioned outside the principle
narrative of a film, such as bracketing scenes in which a character in the story's present
begins to relate events of the past and later concludes her or his tale.
omniscient narration - Answers - narration that presents all elements of the plot,
exceeding that perspective of any one character; see also third person narration.
narrative - Answers - a story told by a narrator or conveyed by a narrational point of
view
scriptwriters - Answers - Individuals who create either original stories or adaptations
from novels, short stories or other sources as a film script.
screen play - Answers - the text from which a movie is made, including dialogue and
info about action, setting, etc; as well as shots and transitions; developed from a
treatment also known as script.
intertitles - Answers - printed text inserted between film images, typically used in silent
films to indicate dialogue and exposition and in contemporary films to indicate time and
place or other transitions.
classical film narrative - Answers - a style of narrative filmmaking centered on one or
more central characters who propel the plot with a cause and effect logic wherein an
action generates a reaction. Normally plots are developed with linear chronologies
directed at definite goals and the film employes an omniscient or a restricted their
person narration that suggests some degree of verisimilitude.
character coherence - Answers - a quality created within a fiction of characters
displaying behavior, emotions, and thoughts that appear consistent and coherent
character depth - Answers - a quality created within a fiction of characters displaying
psychological and social features that distinguish them as rounded and complex in a
way that approximates realistic human personalities.
protagonist - Answers - individuals identified as the positive forces in a film.
antagonist - Answers - characters who oppose the protagonists as negative forces
archetype - Answers - an orignal model or type, such as satan as an archetype of evil
stereotype - Answers - a character type that simplifies and standardizes perception that
one group hold about another, often less numerous, powerful, or privileged group.
character development - Answers - the patterns through which characters in a particular
film move from one mental, physical or social state to another.
diegesis - Answers - a term that refers to the world of films story including not only what
is shown but also what is implied to have taken place. it comes from the Greek world
meaning narration
, nondiegetic - Answers - an insert that depicts an action object, or title origination outside
of the space and time of the narrative world.
linear chronology - Answers - plot events and actions that proceed one after another as
a forward movement of time
deadline structure - Answers - a narrative structure that accelerates the action and plot
toward a central event or action that must be accomplished by a certain time.
narrative frequency - Answers - how often certain plot elements are repeated
narration - Answers - the telling of a story or description of a situation; the emotional,
physical, or intellect perspective through which the characters, events, and action of the
plot are conveyed. In film, it is most explicit when provided as asynchronous verbal
commentary on the action or images, but it ca also designate the storytelling function of
the camera, the editing, and the verbal and other soundtracks.
story - Answers - the subject matter or raw material of a narrative, or our reconstruction
of the events of a narrative based on what is explicitly shown and ordered in the plot.
characters - Answers - individuals who motivate the vents and perform the actions of the
story.
plot - Answers - the narrative ordering of the vents of the story as they appear in the
actual work, selected and arranged according to particular temporal, spatial, generic,
causal or other patterns; in narratology, also known in Russian as syuzhet.
narratology - Answers - the study of narrative forms, encompassing stories of all kinds,
including films; from the Russian form are derived the terms fabula (story), al the vents
included in a tae or imagined by the reader or viewer in order in which they are
assumed to have occurred and syuzhet (plot), the ordering of narrative events in the
particular narrative.
first person narration - Answers - narration that is identified with a single individual
typically a character in the film.
third person narration - Answers - a narration that assumes an objective and detached
stance vis-a-vis the plot and characters, describing events from outside the story.
narrative frame - Answers - a context or person positioned outside the principle
narrative of a film, such as bracketing scenes in which a character in the story's present
begins to relate events of the past and later concludes her or his tale.
omniscient narration - Answers - narration that presents all elements of the plot,
exceeding that perspective of any one character; see also third person narration.
