Screenplays
Character and Setting
Roles
Design
Grab Bag
100
Screenwriters are responsible for creating this.
What is story?
100
Related to duration and setting, it is the overall range, in time and place, of a movie's story.
What is scope?
100
Chief among the professionals who design the look of a movie.
Who is the production designer?
100
These are the decor of a set - the decorations, furniture, draperies, and other small physical objects.
What are properties?
100
The type of framing used in westerns, which are traditionally set in wide-open spaces.
What is open?
200
During preproduction, the story is referred to as this and may be an idea or outline.
What is property?
200
The total world of the story in which the movie occurs.
What is diegesis?
200
The production designer organizes this through design.
What is a narrative?
200
This is when Italian neorealism developed and started to influence how cinema worldwide handled both narrative and design.
What is World War II?
200
The movie mogul instrumental in changing the negative view that studios had of television.
Who is Jack Warner?
300
This is the group discussion and development of a treatment or synopsis.
What is a story conference?
300
The things that we see and hear on the screen but that come from outside the world of the story.
What are nondiegetic elements?
300
This process is where the director plans and rehearses the position and movement of the actors and cameras.
What is blocking?
300
The country in which the most important early development in art direction took place.
What is Germany?
300
The year that the motion picture production code was officially replaced by the rating system.
What is 1968?
400
The term for a director who is also the screenwriter.
What is an auteur?
400
The type of narration that occurs when a character breaks the "fourth wall."
What is direct-address?
400
Responsible for many aspects of continuity, including wigs.
Who is the script supervisor?
400
The use of deep gradations and subtle variations of lights and darks within an image.
What is chiaroscuro?
400
The location in which Hitchcock had permission to film.
What is The Plaza Hotel?
500
These are professional screenwriters that are hired to review a screenplay and improve it.
What are script doctors?
500
A type of character that is complex and three-dimensional, possessing several traits, sometimes even contradictory ones.
What is round?
500
Alfred Hitchcock began his early career as this.
What is an art director?
500
It is what framing implies.
What is point of view?
500
The studio known for the motto "Dress British; think Yiddish."
What is MCA?
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