Chapter 4 Quiz Film

What is a movie's narrative?

This clip from Death to the Tinman provides an example of a _____________ narrator.

Omniscient narration offers __________ access to the narrative of a film.

Which of the following statements about round characters is NOT true?

A movie's ___________ consists of the specific actions and events that the filmmakers select and the order in which they arrange those actions and events to effectively convey the narrative to the viewer

The total world of a film's _____________ is called its _____________.

Which of the following is NOT an example of a nondiegetic element?

Unlike _____________ order, which flows chronologically, _____________ order can be manipulated so that events are presented nonchronologically.

What are the three types of duration identified in this chapter?

The amount of time that the implied story takes to occur is called the _____________.

The elapsed time of those events within the story that the film explicitly presents is called the _____________.

A character who interrupts the narrative to speak to the audience watching the film, thus breaking the "fourth wall" that separates the viewer from the two-dimensional fiction on-screen, is delivering _____________.

Narrative structure is typically characterized by how many acts

When the protagonist faces the seemingly insurmountable obstacle, this is known as the _____________.

In Psycho (1960), director Alfred Hitchcock shows the viewer, but not detective Arbogast, a shot of Mrs. Bates's bedroom gliding open, before she attacks him with a knife. This storytelling device is known as _____________.

The overall range, in time and place, of the movie's story is known as the _____________ of a film.

A character who pursues a goal and is the central figure of a story but has a dark and hostile nature is called an antagonist.

The inciting incident, or catalyst, occurs when the protagonist faces his or her greatest obstacle.

Screen duration is the amount of time a shot is on-screen.

Watch this clip from Bartholomew's Song and assess the validity of the following statement: The story duration of this scene is approximately 15 seconds.