Intro To Film
Shot - answer One unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of a
motion-picture camera
Editing - answer Joining together different shots
Cinematic Language - answer Accepted systems, methods, or conventions by which
movies communicate with viewers
Explicit meaning - answer The sum of the things that a movie presents on its surface
Implicit meaning - answer What we typically denote by, "what does it mean?"): an
association, connection, or inference that a viewer makes on the basis of the explicit
story and form of a film
Themes - answer Shared, public ideas- metaphors, adages, myths, and familiar
conflicts and personality types
Formal analysis - answer"Taking apart" the components that went into creating a movie-
cinematography, sound, composition, design, movement, performance, editing
Patterns - answerPatterns of action or words, or of technical elements such as color
schemes, sounds, the length of shots (short or long cuts), and the movement of the
camera; these can help create possible meanings, questions
Parallel editing - answerShowing different lines of action (i.e., actions that were filmed at
different times) so that they are represented as occurring simultaneously
Form vs Content - answer
Mediation - answerThe camera mediates between the exterior world and our interior
subjective views of and thoughts about the world
Realism - answerdFocus on the actual or real
Antirealism - answerFocus on the abstract, speculative, or fantastic
3 major film types - answerNarrative, documentary, and experimental
Narrative can mean - answer1) A story, 2)a type of movie, 3)structure-the way a story is
told, a broad, 4) a broad, abstract concept that includes the others but also includes any
selection and arrangement of events in implicitly cause-and-effect relationships
Shot - answer One unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of a
motion-picture camera
Editing - answer Joining together different shots
Cinematic Language - answer Accepted systems, methods, or conventions by which
movies communicate with viewers
Explicit meaning - answer The sum of the things that a movie presents on its surface
Implicit meaning - answer What we typically denote by, "what does it mean?"): an
association, connection, or inference that a viewer makes on the basis of the explicit
story and form of a film
Themes - answer Shared, public ideas- metaphors, adages, myths, and familiar
conflicts and personality types
Formal analysis - answer"Taking apart" the components that went into creating a movie-
cinematography, sound, composition, design, movement, performance, editing
Patterns - answerPatterns of action or words, or of technical elements such as color
schemes, sounds, the length of shots (short or long cuts), and the movement of the
camera; these can help create possible meanings, questions
Parallel editing - answerShowing different lines of action (i.e., actions that were filmed at
different times) so that they are represented as occurring simultaneously
Form vs Content - answer
Mediation - answerThe camera mediates between the exterior world and our interior
subjective views of and thoughts about the world
Realism - answerdFocus on the actual or real
Antirealism - answerFocus on the abstract, speculative, or fantastic
3 major film types - answerNarrative, documentary, and experimental
Narrative can mean - answer1) A story, 2)a type of movie, 3)structure-the way a story is
told, a broad, 4) a broad, abstract concept that includes the others but also includes any
selection and arrangement of events in implicitly cause-and-effect relationships
