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| Importance of Sound In Cinema (5) |
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| 1. Engadges extra sense. 2. alters our perception of the image. 3. direct attention within the image. 4.creates new meanings. 5. gives greater meaning to silence. |
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| 1. Loudness. 2. Pitch. 3. Timbre. |
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| The frequency of sound vibrations affect ptch and produces "high" and "low" sound. |
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| the harmonic components of sound that give it a certain "color" of tone quality. |
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| Types of Sound in Cinema (3) |
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| 1. Speech. 2. Music. 3. Sound Effects |
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| The sound that works against what we see on the screen |
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| Sound used to connect, or bridge, two or more shots: it establishes continuity of place, action, or time. |
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| Has a source in the story world. |
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| Is represented as coming from a source outside the story world. Ex. Music or voice-over narration. |
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| The relative priority give to dialogue,effects, and music in a given scene. |
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| Has a physical source in the story world. |
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| Comes from "inside" the mind of a character; it's subjective. |
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| Functions of Movie Music (5) |
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| 1. Setting the scene. 2. Emotional Meaning. 3. Background Filler. 4. Continuity. 5. Emphasizing climaxes. |
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| Music in Setting the Scene (3) |
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| 1. convincing atmosphere of the geographical and historical location |
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| Music and Emotional Meaning (2) |
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| 1. adds emotional qualities. 2. Contradicts the image producing a new meaning. |
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| Music as a Background Filler |
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| or Wall-to-wall music. More common in Classical Hollywood cinema. |
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| 1. Sound Bridges. 2.Leitmotifs |
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| referring to a recurring theme, associated with a particular person, place, or idea. |
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| Music Emphasizing Climaxes |
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| Begins and ends on a specific action and provides important emotional clues towards the climax. |
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| Characteristics of Film Music (5) |
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| 1. Patterns of development. 2. Lyrical Content. 3. Tempo and volume. 4. Instrumentation. 5. Cultural Significance. |
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| Musical themes and motifs and the pattern of their appearance. |
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| Since the late 70's popularsongs incorperated into soundtrack. The lyrics added relevency to the image. |
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| determines the emotional intensity of a scene |
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| usually charecterizes the aura of space surrounding the charecters. |
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| 1. Suggests time period and location. 2. Portrays emotional states. 3. Suggests character traits. |
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| using music that bears a specific cultural significance. |
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| A dramatic, literary, or musical piece openly imitating the previous works of other artists, often with satirical intent. Ex. Diamonds are a Girls Bect Friend. Moulin Rouge |
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| all events in a narrative. Both the ones explicitly presented and those the viewer infers. An imaginary construct that the spectator creates while watching a movie. |
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| all the story events as they are presented in a film. |
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| 5 Part Dramatic Structure |
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| 1. Exsposition. 2. Rising Action. 3.Climax. 4. Falling Action. 5. Denouement. |
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| the event or situation that sets the rest of the narrative in motion. |
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| the development of the narrative building towards the climax. |
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| the narrative turning point. |
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| The principle conflict moves toward resolution. |
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| the resolution or conclusion of the narrative. |
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| an act of story telling or presenting he flow of information. |
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| Principal Temporal Manipuations of Story Events. (3) |
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| 1. Duration. 2. Order. Frequency. |
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| Ellipses (ommision of a narrative event) |
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| Flashbacks and Flashforwards. |
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| we see and hear more than any or all of he charecters can. |
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| We cannot see and hear anything else than the character of the movie can. |
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| Depth of Story Information |
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| our access to the character's psychological states. |
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| A plot confines us wholly to information about what charecters say and do: their external behaviour. |
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| A plot gives us access to what the charecters see and hear or thing |
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| Nondiegetic Film Narrator (3) |
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| 1. Frame the narrative(info from omniscience). 2.Destry autonomous diegesis. 3. Enhance the mood of the diegesis. |
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| the world of the film. All the story elements presented by the narrative. |
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| Diegetic Film Narrator (2) |
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| 1. Effect of Subjectivity. 2. Story may occur earrlier or later than the depected events occur. |
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| A character narrates an embedded tale to on-screen or implied listners. |
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| Events are not linked in a cause-and-effect sequences and charecters are not goal-oriented. |
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| A narrative concludes without resolving a conflict or without achieving a goal. |
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| A performer who had intense personal relationships with their public and whose presence in a film can assure box-office success and establish intense personal relationships with their publics |
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| the relatively fixed screen personality of a star. |
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| secondary performers who specialize in playing similar, recognizable, character types. |
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| Visual Elements of Acting (3) |
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| 1.Apperance. 2. Gestures. 3. Facial exspression |
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| Sound Elements of Acting (2) |
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| 1. Voice. 2. Other sound effects (laugh) |
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| the actor thinks through the requisite gestures and emotions and then exhibits them |
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| that actor seeks to portray a character by using personal experience and emotions as a foundation |
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| the actor reates a psychological distance between themselces and the audience. |
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| extension of method acting; avoidance of any technical mannerism that call attention to technique. |
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| ways of grouping movies by style and story. |
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| The audience identifies a movie as one they want to see based on genre expectations. |
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| genres and their relation to marketing strategies. |
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| narrative and stylistic conventions and genre-specific meanings. |
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| Defining Criteria: historical subject, intended effect, subject matter, style, |
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| visual signs and their meaning. |
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| Examples of "Male action" |
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| Examples of "suffering Genres" |
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| Melodrama, he woman's film. |
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| Westrens Precinimatic forms |
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| Dime novels, theatrical plays and shows, paintings Fredric Remington |
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| When was the Western established by? |
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| Where was the Westren set? |
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| Wild West, American Frontier (1865-1890) |
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| The crucial role of Western landscape? |
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| correlative of the spiritual, mental, emotional state of the charecters |
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| Central theme of the Western? |
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| The Conflict between civilized order and the lawless frontier. |
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| Some examples of binary oppositions in Westerns? |
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| settlers/Indians, white red, christian pagan, domestic savage, helpless dangerous, weak strong, clothed nake. |
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| Covered wagons, horses, churches, campfires,white hats vs. black hats. |
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