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WGU-Visual Arts 3
WGU-Theater & Film
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Tragedy | Drama that portrays a serious subject matter and ends unhappily |
| Comedy | Form of drama that is usually light in subject matter & ends happily; not necessarily void of seriousness |
| Tragicomedy | Drama that includes characteristics of both tragedy & comedy |
| Melodrama | Serious situations arousing suspense, pathos, terror, & occasionally hate. Portray good & evil battling in exaggerated circumstances |
| Performance Art | Generally site-specific events often performed with little detailed planning & leaving much to chance; audience participation may ensue |
| Plot | Structure of the play where all elements hang |
| Denouement | Relaxation of play through resolution of the climax which leads to the end of the play |
| Exposition | Provides necessary background information; comprises a recognizable section at the beginning of a play; presented through dialogue, narration, setting, lighting, costume |
| Complication | Contains meat of the play & comprises a series of conflicts & decisions (crises) that rise in intensity until turning point (climax) is reached |
| Foreshadowing | Helps keep audience clear, provides credibility for future action, keeps action logical, & avoids confusion, builds tension & suspense, moves play forward by pointing toward events |
| Discovery | Revelation of information about characters, their personalities, relationships, & feelings |
| Reversal | Any turn of fortune |
| Character | Psychological motivation of the person in the play |
| Protagonist | Central personage who's actions & decisions influence the journey from beginning to end |
| Theme | Comprises the intellectual content of a play |
| Visual Elements | Physical relationship between actors & audience, stage settings, lighting, & costumes |
| Arena Theatre | Audience surrounds the playing area on all sides |
| Thrust Theatre | (Three-quartered theatre) audience surrounds playing area on three sides |
| Proscenium Theatre | Audience sits on only one side & views the action through a frame |
| Climax | Important decision or realization is made or decisive event occurs after end of complication section |
| Lighting | Most crucial of all theatre artists in modern productions |
| Costumes | Design hairstyles, clothing, & make-up to suit a specific purpose or occasion |
| Transverse Theatre | (Catwalk) audience surrounds the stage on only two sides |
| Unity (Theatre) | Created by relating the various events to each other by cause & effect |
| Resolution | End of section (denouement); all conflicts resolved, questions answered, fate of characters settled & harmony or balance restored |
| Crisis | (Turning point) occurring prior to climax & precipitating it; main character compelled to make crucial decision to determine fate |
| Suspense | (Anticipation) retelling a known or familiar story |
| Symbol | Close imitation to our own experience, or person |
| Monologue | Speaking extensively, without interruption by another character |
| Aside | Monologue delivered with another character present |
| Soliloquy | Synonymous with monologue, but usually reserved for those speeches written in a heightened, more poetic style |
| Sound Effects | Sounds to lend realism, enhance the mood, or create atmosphere |
| Genre | Categories identified by content & by descriptive treatment of form, structure,style, & literary devices |
| Musical Theatre | Closely related to opera, combines dialogue with singing, dancing, & music |
| Archetype | Patterns & motifs revealed in images, plots, settings, rituals & characters |
| Stereotype | An overused or trivialized character or situation |
| Absolute Cinema | Purely artistic expression of light, color, form, shape & movement |
| Documentary Cinema | Attempts to capture actual events |
| Narrative Cinema | Uses exposition, complication, climax & resolution |
| Film Shot | What the motion picture camera records in a single stretch of time; basic unit of film making |
| Establishing Shot | A long shot that establishes setting of the scene that follows |
| Close-up | Close to the subject, framing only one part of the actor or object or part of object to heighten emotional content |
| Medium Shot | Subject(s) at a conversational distance from the camera; waste up |
| Panning | Horizontal movement of camera from a fixed position |
| Tilting | Vertical movement |
| Tracking Shot | Camera on a rolling platform called a dolly; moving toward, away, or alongside |
| Following Shot | Used when subject is on the move & camera must keep pace (chase scenes) |
| Hand-held Shot | Made to appear shaky & unstable, lending tension & a broadcast-news realism to the scene |
| Crane Shot | Uses large dolly, fitted with extendable mechanical arm, placing the camera at the end |
| Point of View Shot | Filming from a characters perspective; used to build tension, suspense, & terror |
| Point of View | Objective & unbiased view; placing itself at the best vantage point to record events |
| Editing | Process of cutting & taping together the strips of film that comprised the shots |
| Continuity Editing | Set of techniques that seek to make transitions from shot to shot as unobtrusive & continuous as possible |
| Jump Cut | Immediate transition from one moment in a shot to a later moment in same shot; indicates a passage of time |
| Cross Cutting | Cutting repeatedly between two different sequences, suggesting they are happening simultaneously |
| Dissolve | Gradual transition from one image to another, signifying passage of time |
| Fade | Gradual transition from image to darkness, or reverse |
| Wipe | Gradual transition from one image to another accomplished by movement of a border, edge, or shape between the images |
| Whip Pan | Pan performed with such speed that the screen shows horizontal blur; used in action films |
| Graphic Match | Transition from action in one scene to similar or parallel action in a different scene |
| Split Screen | Dividing the screen into two or more sections in order to suggest the actions are being show simultaneously |
| Montage | Extended sequence comprised of many different shots or images to create a specific impression |
| Flashback | Temporary interruption of chronological progress to show past events |
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