1.How is the experience of seeing a movie different from watching a play? Reading a book? Viewing a
painting or photograph?
2.What are some of the other expectations that can affect the way viewers react to a movie?
3.What are the four related ways we can define the term narrative?
4.What are the four basic approaches to documentary cinema? How are these approaches blended and
reinterpreted
by contemporary documentary filmmakers?
5.What is the difference between narration and narrator?
6.How (and why) do we distinguish between the story and the plot of a movie?
7.What is the literal meaning of the phrase mise-en-scène? What do we mean by this phrase more
generally when we discuss movies?
8.What are the principal responsibilities of the production designer?