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COMM 3420

Chapter 4

1)A character who pursues a goal and is the central figure of a story but has a dark and hostile nature is called an antagonist.

1. 1. True
   2. False

2. A movie's                                  consists of the specific actions and events that filmmakers select and the order in which they arrange those events.
   1. story
   2. Plot
   3. Subplot
   4. narrative

3. Omniscient narration offers                                access to the narrative of a film.
   1. Restricted
   2. Unrestricted
   3. Diegetic
   4. nondiegetic

4. Screen duration is the amount of time a shot is onscreen.
   1. True
   2. False

5. The amount of time that the implied story takes to occur is called the
   1. Story Duration
   2. Plot Duration
   3. Screen Duration

6. The elapsed time of those events within the story that the film explicitly presents is called the
   1. Story Duration
   2. Plot Duration
   3. Screen Duration

7. The inciting incident occurs when the protagonist faces their greatest obstacle.
   1. True
   2. False

8. The total world of a film's                                      is called its                                     .
   1. story; diegesis
   2. plot; diegesis
   3. story; plot
   4. plot; story