Film Studies Final Exam Chapter 4

other movie modes like documentary or experimental

The act of telling the story.

The camera.

omniscient narration.

Costume

A complex, multidimensional character that changes over the course of a movie

They are always supporting characters.

a goal

An unsympathetic character in pursuit of a less-than-noble goal.

The realistic or plausible reasons behind the character's actions and desires

To move the story forward or flesh out the motivations of the protagonist.

Introduces the setting and characters and establishes what and who they are.

The person, people, creature, or force responsible for obstructing the protagonist

In a horror film, the build toward the moment when the last survivor of a terrifying monster believes the possibility to escape is completely lost.

The discovery of a husband's adultery by a domestic housewife, an event that forces her to reevaluate her life and start it over again.

On-screen text that provides chapter "titles" to distinct sections of a film.

Story contains the explicit and implicit events of the film; plot contains these events in a specifically selected arrangement.

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

The elapsed time of events within the story that the film explicitly presents.

The movie's running time onscreen.

That the element is relatively important because it is part of a pattern.

The time and place in which the story occurs