TFM 160: Ch. 2 - Principles of Film Form Complete Assignment Questions Answers.

mise-en-scène - correct answer also known as staging. The overall look and feel of a movie- the sum of everything the audience sees, hears, and experiences while viewing it. narrative - correct answer a cinematic structure in which content is selected and arranged in a cause-and-effect sequence of events occurring over time sequence - correct answer a series of edited shots characterized by inherent unity of theme and purpose scene - correct answer a complete unit of plot action incorporating one or more shots; the setting of that action content - correct answer the subject of an artwork persistence of vision - correct answer the process by which the human brain retains an image for a fraction of a second longer than the eye records it phi phenomenon - correct answer the illusion of movement created by events that succeed each other rapidly, as when two adjacent lights flash on and off alternatively and we seem to see a single light shifting back and forth. This cognitive phenomenon is part of the reason movies are seen as continuous moving images critical flicker fusion - correct answer a phenomenon that occurs when a single light flickers on and off with such speed that the individual pulses of light fuse together to give the illusion of continuous light apparent motion - correct answer the movie projector's tricking us into perceiving separate images as one continuous image rather than a series of jerky movements. mediation - correct answer an agent, structure, or other formal element, whether human or technological, that transfers something, such as information in the case of movies, from one place to another freeze frame - correct answer aka stop frame or hold frame. A still image within a movie, created by repetitive printing in the laboratory of the same frame so that it can be seen without movement for whatever length of time the filmmaker desires realism - correct answer an interest in or concern for the actual or real; a tendency to view or represent things as they really are antirealism - correct answer a