MDIA 2350 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS
what are all the aspects of form? - answer characters, storyline, visuals, sounds, motifs,
parallels/structure
(sometimes fictional) is a person or other being in a narrative work of art - answer
characters
the plot of a novel, play, movie, or other narrative form - answer storyline
processes by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live
action shot. - answer visuals
refers to everything we hear in a movie - answer sounds
any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story. - answer motifs
technique of alternating two or more scenes that often happen simultaneously but in
different locations. - answer parallels/structure
referencing another work within a work - answer intertextual references
using familiar faces (celebrities) in films as a way to promote the film - answer stars
what are the three types of claims? - answer evaluative, descriptive, interpretive
claim involves the assessment or judgment of the ideas in the original piece - answer
evaluative
claim is a neutral account of the basic characteristics of the film - answer descriptive
claim presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance. These claims
address a film's themes and abstract ideas - answer interpretive
what time period is considered early cinema? - answer 1890-1915
English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of
motion, and early work in motion-picture projection - answer muybridge
invented the kinetoscope - answer Edison and Dickson
invented conematograph - answer lumiere brothers
a trip to the moon - answer melies
films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the
, top of the device. - answer kinetoscope
an early motion-picture projector - answer cinematograph
everyday life, fantastic, modern technology, staged narratives, visual jokes, exotic
locales, human sexuality, exhibition practices, - answer objects of early cinema
the goal is to "show something" - answer cinema of attraction
what arose when elements if attraction became storytelling mediums - answer narrative
tradition
monopolized east coast, upstarts headed west to Hollywood. - answer Edison trust
what came out of the independent moving pictures (IMP) merge? - answer universal
studios
why narrative cinema? - answer debt to theatre, readily available material
story-world, characters, setting, etc. - answer diagetic elements
score music, text, voice over - answer non-diagetic elements
images or visual inserts that are not of the story world. - answer non-diagetic insert
the total story-world - answer fabula
the parts of the narrative onscreen and their order, not necessarily in order. - answer
syuzhet
3 act structure: exposition, rising action, turning point, climax, resolutions
VERIFIED ANSWERS
what are all the aspects of form? - answer characters, storyline, visuals, sounds, motifs,
parallels/structure
(sometimes fictional) is a person or other being in a narrative work of art - answer
characters
the plot of a novel, play, movie, or other narrative form - answer storyline
processes by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live
action shot. - answer visuals
refers to everything we hear in a movie - answer sounds
any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story. - answer motifs
technique of alternating two or more scenes that often happen simultaneously but in
different locations. - answer parallels/structure
referencing another work within a work - answer intertextual references
using familiar faces (celebrities) in films as a way to promote the film - answer stars
what are the three types of claims? - answer evaluative, descriptive, interpretive
claim involves the assessment or judgment of the ideas in the original piece - answer
evaluative
claim is a neutral account of the basic characteristics of the film - answer descriptive
claim presents an argument about a film's meaning and significance. These claims
address a film's themes and abstract ideas - answer interpretive
what time period is considered early cinema? - answer 1890-1915
English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of
motion, and early work in motion-picture projection - answer muybridge
invented the kinetoscope - answer Edison and Dickson
invented conematograph - answer lumiere brothers
a trip to the moon - answer melies
films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the
, top of the device. - answer kinetoscope
an early motion-picture projector - answer cinematograph
everyday life, fantastic, modern technology, staged narratives, visual jokes, exotic
locales, human sexuality, exhibition practices, - answer objects of early cinema
the goal is to "show something" - answer cinema of attraction
what arose when elements if attraction became storytelling mediums - answer narrative
tradition
monopolized east coast, upstarts headed west to Hollywood. - answer Edison trust
what came out of the independent moving pictures (IMP) merge? - answer universal
studios
why narrative cinema? - answer debt to theatre, readily available material
story-world, characters, setting, etc. - answer diagetic elements
score music, text, voice over - answer non-diagetic elements
images or visual inserts that are not of the story world. - answer non-diagetic insert
the total story-world - answer fabula
the parts of the narrative onscreen and their order, not necessarily in order. - answer
syuzhet
3 act structure: exposition, rising action, turning point, climax, resolutions
