Exam 4: Narrative Form

Like Rashomon and Citizen Kane,Slumdog Millionaire uses an elaborate flashback structure to create multiple perspectives and leave the audience's interpretation of the events confused.

Which of the following is an example of sound aligning viewers with a character at a less conscious level than point-of-view shot?

Point-of-view shots always result in the audience understanding or sympathizing with a character.

Identify some ways that a film might exhibit unconventional characterizations. Incorporate examples from a film or films we have screened in class and explore the ways in which these characterizations relate back to overall themes of their film.

The 400 Blows is a good example of an ________.

Typically,critical transitions between acts are marked by lines of dialogue,changes in setting or major events that suggest a shift in character or circumstance,such as Evey having her head shaved in V for Vendetta.

A character's formative experiences before the beginning of the syuzhet but included in the fabula are known as ________.

Despite the use of an elaborate frame narrative in Slumdog Millionaire,the film is fairly conventional in terms of providing characters with clear motivations and goals.

The opening scenes of a film,during which a great deal of information about characters and situations is imparted,is known as the ________.

Most films employ a system of ________ narration,which conveys external events as well as the knowledge,thoughts and feelings of one or two major characters without the intervention of an explicit narrator.

Stagecoach can be analyzed as having both a three part narrative structure and a four part narrative structure.

The narrative technique used in The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari in which a character narrates an embedded tale to someone onscreen is called ________.

Identify a moment from a film that has been discussed in class or in your textbook when the narration shifts from restricted to omniscient. What are some of the effects that this shift has on the film? On the audience? What might filmmakers' intentions be in creating such a shift?

The "exposition" of a film is synonymous with a film's "first act."

Classical Hollywood filmmakers commonly used first-person narration throughout entire films,but the technique has fallen out of fashion recently.

The ________ is the day-to-day guide the director and cinematographer use during production. This document includes information regarding camera placement,cuts,and sound cues.

Which of the following is an example of how a film's syuzhet might differ from its fabula?

Briefly describe the dramatic shift in narrative perspective that occurs a third of the way through Psycho?

Slumdog Millionaire relies on ______________ to tell the story of two impoverished boys in India.

Explain how Notorious manipulates the audience's emotions by exploiting moments of omniscience.