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Film and Mafia
Film and Mafia Midterm
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 3
10/17/2011

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Term
3 steps in the movie process
Definition
  1. Film Production
  2. Distribution
  3. Exhibition
Term
The Producer
Definition
Takes care of finance and organization. Can be independent or employed by a distrubution company/studio
Term
The director
Definition
Coordinates the staff to create the film. With the producer he hires the crew, cast the roles, and searches for locations for filming
Term
The ShootingPhase
Definition
termtowhichisreferred the entireprocessofmaking a film
Term
COVERAGES
Definition
otherportionsof the scene that are shot in closerviews or fromdifferentangles
Term
EDITOR
Definition
one who catalogues and assembles the takes produced during shooting. Can also be involved in the creative process together with the director.
Term
Distribution companies
Definition
core of economic power in the commercial film industry, Exhibitors must pay them to have their films played in their theatres
Term
THEATRICAL exhibiton
Definition

screening to a public that pays admission

  • commercial movie houses
  • city arts centers
  • museums
  • film festivals
Term
NONTHEATRICAL exhibition
Definition

all other presentations such as...

  • home video
  • cable transmissions
  • screenings in school
Term
NARRATIVE
Definition
A chain of events in cause and effect relation occuring in time and space
Term
The STORY
Definition
set of all the events in narrative, both the ones explicitly presented and those the viewer infers. The story starts from the very earliest incident that the plot cues us to assume or infer
Term
The PLOT
Definition
explicitly presents certain story events. The plot starts from the incident we encounter watching the film
Term
CHARACTERS
Definition
main agent of cause-effects relations in a film with their physical appearance, their traits, their psychological drives etc
Term
natural occurrences
Definition
other agents such as human desires, goals as well as animals, or catastrophes 
Term
time
Definition
  1. All the events of the narration are presented in a time sequence
  2. Events can be narrated in a chronological or in a non chronological order 
  3. Order, duration and frequency can be used in different ways in a movie, illustrate how viewer participates in making sense of the narrative film
Term
NARRATION
Definition

Is the process by which the plot presents

story information to the spectator. Viewer can know more, less, or the same as the character

 

 

 

 

Term
OBJECTIVE Narration
Definition
When the viewer only knows the external behavior of the characters
Term
MENTAL SUBJECTIVITY
Definition
When the viewer can hear a characters internal thougths, or see characters inner images, memories, fantasies
Term
EDITING
Definition
the coordination of one shot with the next. 
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