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What do drama (live theater) and film (movies) have in common?
- use action as a principal means of communication
- are collaborative enterprises (involves writers, directors, actors, and technicians)
- are social arts, exhibited before groups of people (experienced publicly and individually)
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What makes film language different from live theater?
has a broader range of techniques at its disposal
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What is the basic unit of live theater?
a scene
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What is the basic unit of a film?
a shot
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In theater, we're informed when time transpires either by (1)_____ _________ or by the (2)________.
- 1. stage direction
- 2. dialogue
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Temporal dislocations like the _________ are rare in the live theater, but commonplace in movies.
flashback
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Due to the space in live theater for a scene, it almost always deals with ______ _____.
closed form
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The "proscenium arch" in live theater is what the _____ is to film - a masking device that isolates objects and people only temporarily.
frame
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Movies often seem (1)_____ because acting styles can't be adjusted to newer audiences. Stage actors, can make even an old play seem (2)_____ and (3)________ despite the language, the (4)______________ and (5)________ can be easily adapted to current acting styles.
- 1. dated
- 2. fresh
- 3. relevant
- 4. interpretation
- 5. delivery
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In theater, the viewer is more (1)_______ and must sort out what elements are (2)_________ and what is (3)__________. The viewer then has to fill in certain meanings in the (4)_______ of (5)______ details.
- 1. active
- 2. essential
- 3. incidental
- 4. absence
- 5. visual
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In film, the audience is more (1)_______. All the necessary details are provided through (2)_____-___ and edited (3)______________.
- 1. passive
- 2. close-ups
- 3. juxtapositions
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Theater is considered a (1)______'s medium because most of the meaning in theater is found in (2)_____ that are densely saturated with (3)___________.
- 1. writer's
- 2. words
- 3. information
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In live theater, we often (1)____ before we (2)___, while film is a (3)______ art.
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One of the major problems with adapting a play to film is determining how much of the (1)________ should be used because it is a primarily (2)______ art form.
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Two major sources of information in live theater are (1)______ and (2)________.
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Most plays avoid actions that require (1)____ or (2)______ spaces.
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In a play, ballets and stylized tableaux are use for (1)_______ ____-shot actions and verbal articulation for (2)_____-__ actions.
- 1. extreme long-shot
- 2. close-up
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Theatrical action is usually confined to what two shot ranges?
long-shot and full-shot ranges
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The central to the aesthetic to theater is the (1)_____ _____, while film is based on (2)___________.
- 1. human being
- 2. photography
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Auteur theory refers to...
a view that stressed the dominance of the director in film art.
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According to the view of auteur theory whoever controls the (1)____ __ _____ - the medium of the story - is the true "(2)______" of a movie.
- 1. mise en scene
- 2. author
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The equivalent of the film saying, it was "good except for it's direction," is the same for theater to say...
it's "good except for it's script."
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In film, the director has more control over the (1)_____ product, while in theater, the director has more control during (2)__________ than the actual (3)___________.
- 1. final
- 2. rehearsals
- 3. performance
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In live theater, the director is limited to one stationary space for the (1)____ __ _____; however it is a three dimensional space with the advantage of (2)_____, and (3)______ through the use of platforms.
- 1. mise en scene
- 2. depth
- 3. height
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