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Implicit Meaning - 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
Explicit Meaning - Answer✔Everything that a movie presents on its surface.
How does explicit meaning relate to juno - Answer✔The movie's about a rebellious but smart
sixteen-year-old girl who gets pregnant and resolves to tackle the problem head on. At first, she
decides to get an abortion; but after she backs off that choice, she gets the idea to find a couple
to adopt the kid after it's born. She spends the rest of the movie dealing with the implications
of that choice.
How does implicit meaning relate to juno - Answer✔"A teenager faced with a difficult decision
makes a bold leap toward adulthood but, in doing so, discovers that the world of adults is no
less uncertain or overwhelming than adolescence."
Formal Analysis - Answer✔Film analysis that examines how a scene or sequence uses formal
elements—narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, sound, and so on—to convey
story, mood, and meaning.
How does formal analysis differ from other
types of analyses that explore the relationship between culture and movies? - Answer✔The
movie meaning expressed through form ranges from narrative information as straightforward
as where and when a particular scene takes place to more subtle implied meaning, such as
mood, tone, significance, or what a character is thinking or feeling. You have to analyze the
movie basically vs other anyalses are just more straight forward.
What do we mean when we describe cinematic language as "invisible"? - Answer✔early
filmmaking pioneers created a film grammar (or cinematic language) that draws upon the way
we automatically interpret visual information in our real lives, thus allowing audiences to
absorb movie meaning intuitively and instantly. Basically all the tricks that directors use the
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audiences brains pick up on it without even having to think about it. Like when the director uses
different angles like when Juno is riding the bike at the end our brain autmatically sees her as
triumphant just the way the camera is postioned but we didnt have to think about it super
hard.
What are some of the reasons why cinematic language is invisible? - Answer✔Becuase our
brains pick up messges and ideas autmatically by just seeing things like when you see a sun you
automatically think happy or a stormy cloud you think sad.
Wha do we mean by cultural invisibility? - Answer✔The same commercial instinct that inspires
filmmakers to use seamless continuity also compels them to favor stories and themes that
reinforce viewers' shared belief systems. After all, the film industry, for the most part, seeks to
entertain, not to provoke, its customers. A key to entertaining the customers is to give them
what they want
How cultural invisibility different from cinematic
invisibility? - Answer✔Cultural invisibality is making movies that your audiences are gonna like
because it confirms there cutlrual beliefs while cinematic invisability is when the audiences
automatiacally pick up ideas or messages about the movie just by the way the director shoots
the movie.
Shot - Answer✔One uninterrupted run of the camera. A shot can be as short or as long as the
director wants, but it cannot exceed the length of the film stock in the camera.
Cut - Answer✔A direct change from one shot to another; that is, the precise point at which shot
A ends and shot B begins; one result of cutting. (page 5)
Editing - Answer✔The process by which the editor combines and coordinates individual shots
into a cinematic whole; the basic creative force of cinema. (page 5)
Close-up - Answer✔A shot that often shows a part of the body filling the frame—traditionally a
face, but possibly a hand, eye, or mouth. (page 5)
Fade in / Fade Out - 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 - Answer✔Also known as low shot. 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 - Answer✔Also known as match-on-action cut. 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.
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TFM Exam Study Guide 1 Questions With
Correct Answers 100% Verified.
Implicit Meaning - 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
Explicit Meaning - Answer✔Everything that a movie presents on its surface.
How does explicit meaning relate to juno - Answer✔The movie's about a rebellious but smart
sixteen-year-old girl who gets pregnant and resolves to tackle the problem head on. At first, she
decides to get an abortion; but after she backs off that choice, she gets the idea to find a couple
to adopt the kid after it's born. She spends the rest of the movie dealing with the implications
of that choice.
How does implicit meaning relate to juno - Answer✔"A teenager faced with a difficult decision
makes a bold leap toward adulthood but, in doing so, discovers that the world of adults is no
less uncertain or overwhelming than adolescence."
Formal Analysis - Answer✔Film analysis that examines how a scene or sequence uses formal
elements—narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, sound, and so on—to convey
story, mood, and meaning.
How does formal analysis differ from other
types of analyses that explore the relationship between culture and movies? - Answer✔The
movie meaning expressed through form ranges from narrative information as straightforward
as where and when a particular scene takes place to more subtle implied meaning, such as
mood, tone, significance, or what a character is thinking or feeling. You have to analyze the
movie basically vs other anyalses are just more straight forward.
What do we mean when we describe cinematic language as "invisible"? - Answer✔early
filmmaking pioneers created a film grammar (or cinematic language) that draws upon the way
we automatically interpret visual information in our real lives, thus allowing audiences to
absorb movie meaning intuitively and instantly. Basically all the tricks that directors use the
1
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audiences brains pick up on it without even having to think about it. Like when the director uses
different angles like when Juno is riding the bike at the end our brain autmatically sees her as
triumphant just the way the camera is postioned but we didnt have to think about it super
hard.
What are some of the reasons why cinematic language is invisible? - Answer✔Becuase our
brains pick up messges and ideas autmatically by just seeing things like when you see a sun you
automatically think happy or a stormy cloud you think sad.
Wha do we mean by cultural invisibility? - Answer✔The same commercial instinct that inspires
filmmakers to use seamless continuity also compels them to favor stories and themes that
reinforce viewers' shared belief systems. After all, the film industry, for the most part, seeks to
entertain, not to provoke, its customers. A key to entertaining the customers is to give them
what they want
How cultural invisibility different from cinematic
invisibility? - Answer✔Cultural invisibality is making movies that your audiences are gonna like
because it confirms there cutlrual beliefs while cinematic invisability is when the audiences
automatiacally pick up ideas or messages about the movie just by the way the director shoots
the movie.
Shot - Answer✔One uninterrupted run of the camera. A shot can be as short or as long as the
director wants, but it cannot exceed the length of the film stock in the camera.
Cut - Answer✔A direct change from one shot to another; that is, the precise point at which shot
A ends and shot B begins; one result of cutting. (page 5)
Editing - Answer✔The process by which the editor combines and coordinates individual shots
into a cinematic whole; the basic creative force of cinema. (page 5)
Close-up - Answer✔A shot that often shows a part of the body filling the frame—traditionally a
face, but possibly a hand, eye, or mouth. (page 5)
Fade in / Fade Out - 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 - Answer✔Also known as low shot. 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 - Answer✔Also known as match-on-action cut. 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.
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