Problem 1: Answer the following after viewing The Keeping Room.
A. What hallmarks of the western does the film exhibit?
B. How does the film subvert some conventions of the western?
C. How do the needs of Mad, Augusta, and Louise help propel the plot forward?
D. What are some similarities between Moses and Louise? How do these similarities help to complicate each character?
E. Explain character coherence (values, actions, behaviors) as exhibited by the character Mad.
F. Pick any scene from the film and explain in detail how all of the diegetic and non-diegetic elements in the scene function.
Problem 2: Briefly explain a moment from a film you saw where a character did not display coherence. How did this affect the overall experience of viewing the film?
Problem 3: What character types do we see in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse?
Problem 4: Briefly explain the difference between internal change and external change. Provide one example of each from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse.
Problem 5: Briefly explain the concept of "narrative frequency." Next, briefly explain how narrative frequency was used in a film you have recently seen.
Problem 6: What is narrative space? Why is it important? In your response, be sure to include an example from a film you have seen.