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Chapter 3 Film
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 4
01/22/2013

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Narrative
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A cinematic structure in which content is elected and arranged in a casue and effect sequence of events occurring over time
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Narrative Film
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Also known as film fiction,a movie that tells a story, with characters, places, and events, that is conceived in the mind of the film's creator. Maybe wholly imaginary or based on true occurrences, and they may be realistic, unrealsitic, or both
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Types of Movies
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Narrative Movies
Documentary Movies
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Structural Quality
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Narrative can be defined in a broader conceptual context as any cinematic structure in which content is selected and arranged in a cause-effect sequence of events occurring over time.
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Short-films
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Considered narrative film because it represents a straight-forward cause-effect story
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Patterns
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Repeat themselves
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Fiction of non-fiction
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Made up stories of real life situations
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True
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Movies do not have to arrange events in conventional order to employ narrative organization
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Documentary Film
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A non-fiction film that presents the film makers perspective on actuality. take many forms, including factual, instructional, persuasive,and propaganda. regardless of approach, every one is shaped by the film makers intent and subjective interpretation of ideas and actual events
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Experimental Film
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Avante-garde, term implying a position in the vanguard, out in front of traditional films. Usually about unfamiliar, unorthodox, or obscure subject matter and are ordinarily made by independent film makers, not studios, often with innovative techniques that call attention to question, and even challenge their own artifice
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Photography is used when____
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Combining the films into sequential events to develop casue-effect
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Cinematic Structure
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Most elemental way of looking at narrative
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True
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A fiction movie need not have a traditional goal driven plot to be considered a narrative
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Process of movie making
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The process linear nature lends itself to structures that develop according to some form of of progression
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Cinematic expression exist along a
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Continuum
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What distinguishes narrative films?
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Directed toward fiction
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Narrative films are based on
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Screenplays
Behavior and spoken line is predetermined
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Narrative Characters are played by actors
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Verisimilitude
technical demands of the motion picture production process
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Demands
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Lighting design
camera movement

performing scenes out of logical chronological sequence
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Difference of narrative film and documentary
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allegiance
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Narrative begins with
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dramatic story telling
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Documentary films begins with
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recording of reality
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Factual Films
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Present people, places, or processes in straightforward ways meant to entertain and instruct without unduly influencing audiences
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Instructional films
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Educate viewers about common interests, rather than persuading them to accept particular ideas
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Persuasive films
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Address social injustice
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Propaganda films
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systematically disseminate deceptive or distorted information
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Direct Cinema
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An approach to documentary film making that employs an unobtrusive style in an attempt to give viewers as truthful and direct an experience of events as possible
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Application of Direct Cinema
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Placement of small portable cameras and sound recording equipment in an important location for days or weeks, recording events as they occur
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Voice over narration
Definition
elements as interviews and archival footage in innovated ways to create new and compelling non-fiction forms
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Experimental Films
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Most difficult of all types of movies to define with any precision, in part because experimental film makers actively seek to defy categorization and convention
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Avan-Garde
Definition
French phrase used to describe scouts and pathfinders who explored ahead of an advancing army
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6 Characteristics of Experimental film
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Not Commercial
Are personal
Do not conform to conventional expectations
Exploit the possibilities of the cinema
Critique culture and media
Invite individual interpretation
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Experimental Films do
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Not tell a story
incorporate unorthodox imagery
motivated n=by more innovation and personal expression
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Wavelength
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Is replete with differing qualities of space, light, exposures focal lengths and printing techniques
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Sink or Swim
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Focuses on personal expression
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Stream of Consciousness
Definition
Erasing the line between dream and reality
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Self-reflexive Films
Definition
Those that represent their own conditions of production in the spirit of surrealism
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Satirical and Sexual Films
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Often overlap particularly in their portrayal of sexual activities that challenge conventional ideas of normality
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hybrid Movies
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Cross-pollination of Experimental-Documentary-Narrative
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Genre
Definition
Categorization of narrative films by the stories they tell and the ways they tell them
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Commonly recognized Genre movies
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Western
Horror
Science Fiction
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Genre Labels
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Allow us to predict with reasonable certainty what sort of movie to expect and how they are bank rolled
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Most Movie Goers value
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Predictability over novelty
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Theme
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Unifying idea that the film expresses through its narrative or imagery
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