Key Concepts for Chapter 2

There will be a very brief Reading Reward (quiz) on TUESDAY, 4/10 [NEW DATE] on some of the key concepts from Chapter 2 of our textbook, Understanding Movies. The best way to prepare is to thoroughly read Chapter 2, completing the fill-in-the-blank handout (on Google Classroom) as you go, and focusing on the following terms and concepts:

• Mise en scène
• Aspect ratio
• The dominant
• Open form vs. closed form
• Proxemic patterns
• Classical composition

Good luck!

Key Concepts for Chapter 1

There will be a very brief Reading Reward (QUIZ) on Monday, 2/12 on some of the key concepts from Chapter 1 of our textbook, Understanding Movies. The best way to prepare is to thoroughly read Chapter 1, completing the fill-in-the-blank handout (that you received in class) as you go, and focusing on the following terms and concepts:

• Film style: Realism, formalism & classical cinema
• Shots: Long, medium, close-up and the effects they create
• Angles: Eye-level, high, low, birds-eye view, and oblique (also known as canted or dutch) and the effects they create
• The role of the cinematographer
• Photography: Soft-focus, deep-focus, and rack focusing (selective focusing)

Good luck!

Key Concepts for Chapter 8

NOTE: NEW DATE FOR QUIZ

There will be a very brief Reading Reward (quiz) on MONDAY, 3/31 on some of the key concepts from Chapter 8 of our textbook, Understanding Movies. The best way to prepare is to thoroughly read Chapter 8, completing the fill-in-the-blank handout (that you received last week) as you go, and focusing on the following terms and concepts:

• Study the general features of these major narrative structures: classical, formalistic, realistic, and nonfictional
• Mimesis & diegesis
• Genre conventions
• The classical paradigm
• Cinema verite
• Rites of passage

Good luck!