TFM 160 SDSU Exam #1 questions with
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Implicit Meaning - correct answer ✔✔An association, connection, or inference
that a viewer makes on the basis of the given (explicit) meaning conveyed by the
story and form of a film. Closest to our everyday sense of the word meaning.
Explicit Meaning - correct answer ✔✔Everything that a movie presents on its
surface; the obvious meaning of the movie.
Shot - correct answer ✔✔unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted
run of a motion-picture camera- that allow visual elements to rearrange
themselves and the viewer's perspective itself to shift w/o any composition;
cannot exceed the length of the film stock in the camera
Cut - correct answer ✔✔A direct change from one shot to another; that is, the
precise point at which shot A ends and shot B begins
Editing - correct answer ✔✔joining together of discrete shots gives movies the
power to choose what the viewer sees and how that viewer sees it at any given
moment; editor combines and coordinates individual shots into a cinematic whole
Close-Up - correct answer ✔✔A shot that often shows a part of the body filling
the frame—traditionally a face, but possibly a hand, eye, or mouth.
, Fade In/Fade Out - correct answer ✔✔Transitional devices in which a shot fades in
from a black field on black-and-white film or from a color field on color film, or
fades out to a black field (or a color field).
Low Angle Shot - correct answer ✔✔A shot that is made with the camera below
the action and that typically places the observer in a position of inferiority.
Cutting On Action - correct answer ✔✔A continuity editing technique that
smoothes the transition between shots portraying a single action from different
camera angles. The editor ends the first shot in the middle of a continuing action
and begins the subsequent shot at approximately the same point in the matching
action
Protagonist - correct answer ✔✔The primary character whose pursuit of the goal
provides the structural foundation of a movie's story
Form - correct answer ✔✔The means by which a subject is expressed. The form
for poetry is words; for drama, it is speech and action; for movies, it is pictures
and sound; and so on.
Content - correct answer ✔✔The actual subject matter and "meat" of the movie.
Motif - correct answer ✔✔A recurring visual, sound, or narrative element that
imparts meaning or significance
Theme - correct answer ✔✔A shared, public idea, such as a metaphor, an adage, a
myth, or a familiar conflict or personality type
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Implicit Meaning - correct answer ✔✔An association, connection, or inference
that a viewer makes on the basis of the given (explicit) meaning conveyed by the
story and form of a film. Closest to our everyday sense of the word meaning.
Explicit Meaning - correct answer ✔✔Everything that a movie presents on its
surface; the obvious meaning of the movie.
Shot - correct answer ✔✔unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted
run of a motion-picture camera- that allow visual elements to rearrange
themselves and the viewer's perspective itself to shift w/o any composition;
cannot exceed the length of the film stock in the camera
Cut - correct answer ✔✔A direct change from one shot to another; that is, the
precise point at which shot A ends and shot B begins
Editing - correct answer ✔✔joining together of discrete shots gives movies the
power to choose what the viewer sees and how that viewer sees it at any given
moment; editor combines and coordinates individual shots into a cinematic whole
Close-Up - correct answer ✔✔A shot that often shows a part of the body filling
the frame—traditionally a face, but possibly a hand, eye, or mouth.
, Fade In/Fade Out - correct answer ✔✔Transitional devices in which a shot fades in
from a black field on black-and-white film or from a color field on color film, or
fades out to a black field (or a color field).
Low Angle Shot - correct answer ✔✔A shot that is made with the camera below
the action and that typically places the observer in a position of inferiority.
Cutting On Action - correct answer ✔✔A continuity editing technique that
smoothes the transition between shots portraying a single action from different
camera angles. The editor ends the first shot in the middle of a continuing action
and begins the subsequent shot at approximately the same point in the matching
action
Protagonist - correct answer ✔✔The primary character whose pursuit of the goal
provides the structural foundation of a movie's story
Form - correct answer ✔✔The means by which a subject is expressed. The form
for poetry is words; for drama, it is speech and action; for movies, it is pictures
and sound; and so on.
Content - correct answer ✔✔The actual subject matter and "meat" of the movie.
Motif - correct answer ✔✔A recurring visual, sound, or narrative element that
imparts meaning or significance
Theme - correct answer ✔✔A shared, public idea, such as a metaphor, an adage, a
myth, or a familiar conflict or personality type
