Chapter 1 Review

 Movies are:  A complex artistic form  A Global industry  A popular art form

 Content is the subject of an Art Work  Form is the means through which that subject is expressed

 An object, document or secret within a story that is important to the characters, but turns out to less significant to the overall movie is called a:  MacGuffin

 The human eye is similar to a camera because both the eye’s pupil and the camera lens can be adjusted for various light strengths and levels of brightness

 Film images are made photographically  Digital images are made electronically. editing  The manipulation of time as well as space is a function of editing, a filmic element.

 The use of light and dark can effect the mood of a film  The literal meaning of photography is, “writing with light.”

 Edweard Mybridge’s photos of a horse in motion are an early example of series photography Camera  A Camera exposes film to light, burning a negative image onto each frame of film

 The first motion picture camera was the  Kinetograph  Edison’s kinetograph made the first motion picture called –  Edison Kinetoscope Record of a Sneeze.

 Actualities  Actualities refers to the Lumiere brothers’ brief films of scenes of everyday life.

 Antirealism  Antirealism is defined as an interest in or concern for the abstract, speculative, or fantastic.”  The convincing appearance of truth is called:  Verisimilitude