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Tham khảo tài liệu 'lexis academic vocabulary study phần 6', ngoại ngữ phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 8 Lighting can also contribute to the narration. Degrees of dark and light can project a mood of danger sadness or romance. Gradually diminishing light at the end of a scene called a fade-out in film terminology serves as a clear transition between two scenes separated in time. In fact many narrative devices function to clarify the time element in movies. Because the events in a story might take place over days weeks or even years film makers had to create visual devices to express chronology. Showing the turning hands of a clock or the changing pages of a calendar is one way to depict the passage of time. In contrast a film can create the illusion of simultaneous events by interrupting a scene with other action and then returning to the original scene. Cross-cutting back and forth between shots of the pursued and shots of the pursuer is a common technique in chase scenes. Narrative devices such as these make a film story comprehensible and coherent. That is they help audiences understand the sequence of events by combining the separate scenes into a unified story. 9 As motion pictures improved in the early 1900s they became increasingly popular. To keep pace with the public s demand for films makeshift motion picture theaters were set up in empty stores and offices sometimes as many as five to a city block. For a nickel theater-goers could see comedy drama adventure and romance while a piano player provided music appropriate to the action on the screen touching music for sad scenes exhilarating music for chase scenes and so on. Although independent of the film itself the musical accompaniment enhanced the film narration by creating a mood. 10 In fact music was so critical to screen narration that film makers began experimenting with ways to synchronize recorded music with films. By the late 1920s they had devised a way to include music on the filmstrip itself. They never intended that films should talk but in The Jazz Singer the first words in a motion picture .