Film Form and Narrative Latest Update Graded A

Film Form and Narrative Latest Update Graded A Film Content The subject matter or meaning of a film. That which is expressed by a work of art. Film Form The means by which a film's content is expressed. The style and techniques used to convey meaning. Film Conventions Traditions, dominant styles, and popular forms used by filmmakers which are generally accepted as the principles of filmmaking. Film Genre The general classification of films by form, content, or both. The use of particular conventions in a particular genre helps to classify it by style or form. Film Function The role, effect, or purpose of any element within film's total form. Who does that element function? Formal Analysis Examines how a scene or sequence uses formal elements to convey story, mood, or meaning. Film Narrative A chain of events in a cause-effect relationship, occurring in time and space. Or a cinematic structure in which content is selected and arranged in a cause in a cause and effect sequence of events occurring in time and space. Story All events that we see or hear on the screen, and all events that are implied or which we infer to have occurred, but are not explicitly shown or presented. Plot The structures for presenting everything that we see of hear in a film. The order and arrangement of all elements, both diegetic and non-diegetic. Diegesis The total world of the film's story: the events, characters, objects, settings, and sounds that form the world in which the story occurs. Diegetic Anything that exists within the world of the story. Non-Diegetic Elements which come from outside the world of the story: Text, Third Person Narration, Score