Chapter 4 Quiz Film
What is a movie's narrative? - answerthe telling of a movie's story
This clip from Death to the Tinman provides an example of a _____________ narrator. -
answerthird-person
This clip uses a third-person narrator - a voice-over narration by someone who isn't
even in the movie
Omniscient narration offers __________ access to the narrative of a film. -
answerunrestricted
Which of the following statements about round characters is NOT true? - answerRound
characters generally exhibit predictable behavior.
A movie's ___________ consists of the specific actions and events that the filmmakers
select and the order in which they arrange those actions and events to effectively
convey the narrative to the viewer - answerplot
The total world of a film's _____________ is called its _____________. - answerstory;
diegesis
Which of the following is NOT an example of a nondiegetic element? - answerdialogue
Unlike _____________ order, which flows chronologically, _____________ order can
be manipulated so that events are presented nonchronologically. - answerstory; plot
What are the three types of duration identified in this chapter? - answerscreen duration;
plot duration; story duration
The amount of time that the implied story takes to occur is called the _____________. -
answerstory duration
The elapsed time of those events within the story that the film explicitly presents is
called the _____________. - answerplot duration
A character who interrupts the narrative to speak to the audience watching the film, thus
breaking the "fourth wall" that separates the viewer from the two-dimensional fiction on-
screen, is delivering _____________. - answerdirect address narration
Narrative structure is typically characterized by how many acts - answerthree
What is a movie's narrative? - answerthe telling of a movie's story
This clip from Death to the Tinman provides an example of a _____________ narrator. -
answerthird-person
This clip uses a third-person narrator - a voice-over narration by someone who isn't
even in the movie
Omniscient narration offers __________ access to the narrative of a film. -
answerunrestricted
Which of the following statements about round characters is NOT true? - answerRound
characters generally exhibit predictable behavior.
A movie's ___________ consists of the specific actions and events that the filmmakers
select and the order in which they arrange those actions and events to effectively
convey the narrative to the viewer - answerplot
The total world of a film's _____________ is called its _____________. - answerstory;
diegesis
Which of the following is NOT an example of a nondiegetic element? - answerdialogue
Unlike _____________ order, which flows chronologically, _____________ order can
be manipulated so that events are presented nonchronologically. - answerstory; plot
What are the three types of duration identified in this chapter? - answerscreen duration;
plot duration; story duration
The amount of time that the implied story takes to occur is called the _____________. -
answerstory duration
The elapsed time of those events within the story that the film explicitly presents is
called the _____________. - answerplot duration
A character who interrupts the narrative to speak to the audience watching the film, thus
breaking the "fourth wall" that separates the viewer from the two-dimensional fiction on-
screen, is delivering _____________. - answerdirect address narration
Narrative structure is typically characterized by how many acts - answerthree
