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| How is the term mis en scene used in french films? |
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| used in beginning of film, meaning "direction by _____" |
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| the movies ______ and ______ suggest how complex and varied the structure of a nonchronological film story can be |
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| what did mis en scene originally mean? |
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| director's staging of a play |
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| what does mis en scene currently mean? |
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| everything put before the camera in preparation for filming |
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| What are the three aspects of mise en scene? |
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1. settings
2. subjects
3. composition |
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| the place where a narrative's events occur |
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| to indicate a period and to reveal or enhance the narrative's style, moods, characters, and meanings |
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| arrangement of settings, lighting, and subjects in frame |
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| what does mis en scene mean in french? |
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| film representation of actual subjects |
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| what does the documentary film "The Hidden Art of Hollywood" show about the script? |
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| script could be most effectively visualized if the film had a certain type of lighting and a particular color palette throughout |
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| What is special about Amadeus? |
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| the designer gave the film one look for a particular character and another look for an opposing character |
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| person responsible for the appearance of much of what is photographed in a movie, including locations, hairstyles, and costumes |
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| person responsible for the motion-picture photography during the making of a film |
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| synonym for cinematographer |
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| director of photography (DP) |
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| who usually makes the decisions about mis en scene in large productions? |
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| a section of a narrative that gives the impression of continuous action taking place in continuous time and space |
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| Who directed The Good, The Bad, The Ugly? |
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| What type of movie is The Good, The Bad, The Ugly? |
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| Italian Spaghetti Western |
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| what is special about the opening credits of the good, the bad, and the ugly? |
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| wordless scene for 7.5 minutes in beginning of film |
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| what does wordless mis en scene convey? |
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mood
setting
plot
characters |
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| what is a spaghetti western? |
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| a film movement consisting of hundreds of westerns filmed from 1964 to mid-1970s mostly in italian studios and often on barren locations |
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| what is the movie Last Days about? what is special about it? |
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about kurt cobain's last days
relies entirely on visuals and sound effects |
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| what is the movie Paradise Now about? |
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modern day palestine
2 close friends that are considering becoming suicide bombers
no dialogue, but you can assume what they are thinking |
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| uninterrupted strip of exposed motion-picture film or videotape that represents a subject during an uninterrupted segment of time |
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| constructed place used for filming |
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| real place that is not built for the filmmakers |
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| what are the two types of settings? |
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| what is a blank setting called? |
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| what are the three types of settings? |
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limbo sets
realistic settings
nonrealistic settings |
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| what is an example of a movie that uses realistic settings? |
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| what are nonrealistic settings? |
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not convincing to auience that it is a real place
nonrealistic colors
misshapen
abstract shapes |
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| what musical uses unrealistic settings? |
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| what film uses nonrealistic settings to reveal the character's state of mind? |
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| the cabinet of dr.caligari |
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| when a shot presents the main subject with abundant space around it |
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| leaves little space around subject |
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| convey confinement and stress |
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| when does a director switch from loose framing to tight framing? |
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| when another subject walks into the frame |
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| what is a film technique? |
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| any aspect of filmmaking; such as the use of sets, lighting, sound effects music, or editing |
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| the borders of projected film |
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| what is the film taste of cherry about? |
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| some guy that drives around in the desert to look for somebody to cover up his body after he kills himself |
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style of film used to represent emotions in striking ways
using dark shadows, exaggerated settings, parallel lines, etc |
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| example of expressionism in film |
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the golem
irregularly shaped windows in background, staircase, archways, fireplace etc |
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| how did the director of american beauty use setting? |
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| to mirror changes in situation and moods |
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| how do we learn about characters/ |
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by observing their actions
such as marrying, divorcing, dancing, etc
and FACIAL REACTIONS |
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| what are the two means of revealing characterization? |
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| what is one of the most commonly used means of characterization? |
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| the car that a character drives |
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| what are the means used to show characterization? |
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clothing
appearance
car/possessions |
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| acting that results after the performer studies the background and personality of a character in depth and uses various techniques to immerse themself into a role |
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| actor who tends to specialize in well-defined secondary roles |
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1. stars
2. method actors
3. character actor
4. nonprofessional actor |
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marlon brando
al pacino
joanne wooward |
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| why do some directors prefer to use nonprofessional actors? |
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| audiences do not get distracted by their previous roles in other films |
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small role in narrative by a famous person
like when a famous person is in a tv show for just one episode |
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| what are the best known cameos? |
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alfred hitchcock showed up in his own films
appears in frame for only a few seconds and says nothing |
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person in charge of business an administrative aspects of making a film
they do the hiring |
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| most famous example of an actor being casted against their type |
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| sergio leone's role in once upon a time in the west |
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| a good part for an actor begins with an effective ___ and shrewd ___ |
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| effective script and shrewd casting |
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| to change from one shot to another |
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| a shot, usually of a face, that shows someone reacting to an event |
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the way that subjects are represented in the film
another word for genre |
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shape of an image
relationship of image's width to height |
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| what is the standard aspect ratio? |
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| a film format with an aspect ratio or screen shape noticeably greater than 4:3 |
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| how is a wide-screen film created |
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| how does an anamorphic lens work? |
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| makes possible the widest images in wide-screen film by compressing the image onto film during filming and expanding the image back to its original width during projection |
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| technique used to block out part of an image temporarily |
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| two ways filmmakers change shape of image/ |
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1. masking
2. illuminating only the part of what is being filmed |
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| another word for a nonanamorphic film |
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wide-screen process introduced in 50s
filmed with anamorphic lens |
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| videotape, video disk, and dvd format that retains films original widescreen ratio by not using portions of the top and bottom part of the screen |
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| why is empty space often used? |
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| what are two films that use empty space? |
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Ugetsu
Fargo: wife is kidnapped |
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| why do films sometimes show two people on opposite sides of the frame? |
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| to show their alienation from each other |
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| changing the focus during a shot from foreground to background |
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directs viewers attention to the relationship of foreground and background or to the attention of a different subject
dramatic moments |
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| in symmetrical compositions with only one major subject, the subject is seen in the ___ of the frame |
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| in symmetrical copositions with two subjects, both are _____ in frame |
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| in assymetrical compositions, where are the subjects? |
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wherever
do not need to be offset or balanced in frame |
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| a film movement consisting of untraditional movies made in france in 50s and 60s |
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| define; product placement |
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putting products in a film for advertisement
like showing a coke can |
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| tribute to an earlier film |
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