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The psychological separation of the audience from the performance is called
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aesthetic distance
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How do the terms drama and theater differ
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Drama is the literary component of theater, and it includes works written for radio, television, and cinema.
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an audience's willingness to accept events onstage as true or plausible during a performance, and make an emotional connection
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Drama is the literary component of theater, and it includes works written for radio, television, and cinema.
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The conflicts inherent in the dramatic situation are elaborated and developed in the
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complication
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The underlying meaning of the story in drama is its:
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Theme
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an emotional release by the audience in response to tragedy.
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Catharsis
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The genre that combines spoken dialogue with singing, dancing and music is called
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Musical theater
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Skill and imagination used to create or produce aesthetic objects
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Art
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The Visual elements of drama
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Mise - en-scene
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Elements ( lines, shapes, colors) of a work of art origanized to effect participants
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Artistic Form
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The meaning of the work of art
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Content
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A moment in the drama where the main character must make a crucial decision, one which will determine his fate
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Turning point
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The focus of a work of art (what is it about)
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Subject Matter
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a work of theater with a primary goal of making the audience laugh, one which generally has a happy ending
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Comedy
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a defect in the hero's character
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Tragic flaw
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the appearance of truth or reality in theater (stage set, dialogue, etc.)
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Verisimilitude
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a comedy characterized by broad often physical humor, superficial characters, and improbable situations
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Farce
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the deliberate introduction of information (verbally, visually or otherwise) suggesting an event that will take place later in the story
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Foreshadowing
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a type of experimental theater that bridges the disciplines of theater and the visual arts
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Performance art
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an audience's detachment or non-involvement with the characters or situation that allows for contemplation or reflection
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Aesthetic distance
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an artistic movement that breaks with tradition and radically new or original
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Avant-garde
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a drama with a disastrous ending, generally involving the downfall of a flawed protagonist, which often involves catharsis
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Tragedy
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an audience's willingness to accept events onstage as true or plausible during a performance
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Suspension of disbelief
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dramatic genre which assaults the senses through shocking scenes and blood and gore with a goal of alienation and entertainment
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Theater of Cruelty
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a moment in the drama where the main character must make a crucial decision, one which will determine his fate; also called the crisis
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Turning point
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Neoclassical requirements for theater: unity of time (events occur while audience is present); unity of place (action occurs in the same place); and unity of action (only one plot)
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Unities
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in Greek drama, a group of actors who comment on the action and provide society's view of the events
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Chorus
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a speech delivered by a character who is alone on the stage
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Soliloquy
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unstated motivations, ideas, or tensions beneath the surface of a drama's text
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Subtext
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the resolution of a plot by use of a highly improbable chance or coincidence; in Latin, "god from the machine"
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Deus ex machina
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middle section of a drama where conflicts inherent in the situation are elaborated and developed, and dramatic tension builds until a moment of maximum intensity and interest, called the climax
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Complication
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dramatic genre associated with Bertold Brecht which sought to create emotional distance by highlighting artificiality of the theater, so the audience would watch objectively and focus on ideas
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Theater of Alienation
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those depicted in a drama, whether fictional, historical, or contemporary
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Characters
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the purging of a spectator's strong emotions through experiencing tragedy; Aristotle's concept
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Catharsis
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a monologue delivered with another character present
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Aside
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the enduring literary component of theater
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Drama
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the main, and most important, character of a drama; Aristotle saw this character as one who chooses, learns, and changes
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Protagonist
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a popular, moralistic, sentimental drama, often involving conflict between two-dimensional characters (good vs. bad)
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Melodrama
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an opening which introduces the characters and their circumstances, the setting, the mood, and the situation, giving the audience information essential for understanding the story
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Exposition
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the moment when the main character becomes aware of an essential truth about himself or his situation; also called the recognition
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Discovery
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how the various events that make up the story are arranged
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Plot
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theatrical genre in which human or individual weaknesses or shortcomings are shown by means of ridicule, derision, irony, or other methods, often with the intent to expose or correct
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Satire
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the moment when the main character is compelled to suffer a fate which is the opposite of his original desire; usually the immediate effect of the discovery
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Reversal (of fortune)
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the art of writing and producing plays, a collaborative medium of artistic expression
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Theater
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the visual elements of drama
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Mise-en-scène
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when a drama's action comes to its proper conclusion and a resolution is near
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Denouement
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In a classic tragedy, the protagonist and the hero are
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one and the same
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Despite the fact that drama is inherently artificial, an audience is willing to participate in the "world" it creates. This is called:
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suspension of disbelief.
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Artistotle grouped together the sets, scenery, props, costumes, makeup, lighting and special effects under the name:
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Spectacle
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Denouement is a French word referring to which section of a typical plot structure?
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The resolution
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Of the following, what is the best definition of the term, "recognition," as it is used in classic drama?
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The point at which the protagonist discovers the truth about his or her situation.
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Cinderella, the story of a miserable, unloved servant girl who eventually marries a prince, is an example of which of the following dramatic genres?
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Comedy
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This term is usually reserved for those speeches written in a heightened, more poetic style given by one character without interruption.
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Soliloquy
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Playwrights use stereotypes largely to:
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eliminate the need for development, to get to the action faster
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The beginning of a drama is typically where the audience is given information that is essential to its understanding of the story. This opening section is referred to as the:
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exposition
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The perceptual phenomenon that involves an image being retained in the mind for a brief moment after the image is gone, is called:
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persistence of vision
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Which term best describes a sequence of shots that serves to condense the narrative
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Montage
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The inciting incident, which introduces a conflict that must be resolved, generally occurs:
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at the end of the first act of the screenplay.
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According to Christopher Vogler, screenplays often rely on
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myths and archetypes.
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a gradual transition from one image to another, accomplished by the movement of a border, edge, or shape (such as a vertical bar or an expanding circle) between the images
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Wipe
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cutting repeatedly between two different sequences, suggesting they are happening simultaneously, or that the events are thematically related
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Cross cut
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the basic unit of film-making: what the motion picture camera records in a single stretch of time
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Shot
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an uninterrupted shot of an entire scene, usually used as a timing and pacing reference during the editing process
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Master shot
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the art of movie photography, including camera position and lighting, in telling a story
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Cinematography
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an immediate transition from one moment in a shot to a later moment in the same shot, causing an abrupt shift in the subject's position
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Jump cut
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camera shot that moves directly toward or away from the subject or alongside the subject through the use of a rolling platform called a dolly
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Tracking shot
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film technique employing detailed shots to stretch out screen time
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Elongated moment
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camera shot that shows character who is experiencing action
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Subjective shot
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a gradual transition from one image to another, usually signifying the passage of time
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Dissolve
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camera shot that establishes the setting of the scene that follows
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Establishment shot
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perspective where the camera assumes a subject's view and thus viewers see what the subject sees
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Point of view (POV) shot
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a set of techniques that seek to make the transitions (or cuts) from shot to shot as unobtrusive and continuous as possible
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Continuity editing
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camera shot where the subject is close; used to establish emotional content
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Close-up
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vertical movement of the camera from a fixed position
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Tilting
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when a film's action comes to its proper conclusion and a resolution is near
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Denouement
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a temporary interruption of the chronological progress of the narrative, during which interruption an event of the past is shown
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Flashback
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a form of entertainment that employs a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement to tell a story
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Film
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a script with the dialogue, descriptions, and all other elements required to tell the story of a film, television show, or other visual story
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Screenplay
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an opening which introduces the characters and their circumstances, the setting, the mood, and the situation, giving the audience information essential for understanding the story
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Exposition
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horizontal movement of the camera from a fixed position
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Panning
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a gradual transition from image to darkness, or the reverse
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Fade
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film technique to establish quick passage of time (for example, shots of flipping calendar pages, or trees changing seasons)
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Compressed time
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camera shot where the subject(s) are at a distance that gives them context, devoting about half of the frame to the actor(s), emphasizing their surroundings
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Long shot
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the moment when the main character becomes aware of an essential truth about himself or his situation; also called the recognition
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Discovery
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the moment when the main character is compelled to suffer a fate which is the opposite of his original desire; usually the immediate effect of the discovery
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Reversal (of fortune)
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The term describing what a film camera records in a single stretch of time is:
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a shot.
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A cinematographer wants to film a business man walking down a city street and comically slipping on a banana peel. Which of the following shots would he most likely choose to record the action?
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A medium long shot.
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Such shots are used extensively in chase scenes.
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Follow shots.
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A film that is a purely artistic expression of light, color, form, shape and movement is considered ______________.
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absolute cinema
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_______________ is the process of transferring a film's screenplay from a written to a visual form.
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Storyboarding
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Visual effects staff use this to film actors against and then change background locations.
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Green screen.
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Screenplays can be original, or _____________ of existing works such as plays, novels, comic books, cartoons, or video games.
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adaptations
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The moment of greatest dramatic tension or suspense in a screenplay is called:
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the turning point
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The basic technology required to create the illusion of a moving image was in place by:
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1895
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Vertical camera movement is called:
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tilting
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A pan performed with such speed that the screen shows a horizontal blur, used in action films, is called:
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The whip pan
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