Sound
Cinematography
Editing
Mise-En-Scene
Etc
100
____________________ sound originates from a source within the world of the film. _______________________ sound originates beyond that world.
What are diegetic, nondiegetic?
100
The opening scenes from Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958) and Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006) both make use of which cinematographic strategies to set up their respective films? a. aerial and crane shots, black and white images b. mobile cameras and long takes c. fixed camera and deep-space cinematography d. long shots and high-key lighting e. match cuts and color-saturated images
What is b - mobile cameras and long takes?
100
6. Whereas most narrative films are edited in such a way to maintain continuity, discontinuity can be used in such films to emphasize a particular moment or set a feeling of disorientation. a. True b. False
What is a, true?
100
Come to the board and draw a shot that adheres to the rule of thirds.
What is a frame divided with two horizontal and two vertical lines, with points of interest at the intersections?
100
Why can it be said that realism in movies is a kind of illusion? Answer A.Because there is no such thing as reality. B.Because realism ceased to exist as a viable artistic approach decades ago. C.Because nothing captured on camera and projected on screen can technically be defined as “real.” D.Because no matter how similar to our experience of the world it might appear, realism always entails mediation. E.Because the concept of realism has always remained the same throughout the history of the arts.
What is answer D, D.Because no matter how similar to our experience of the world it might appear, realism always entails mediation.
200
These are the components of the sound envelope.
What are attack, sustain, decay?
200
This type of lens achieves a perceived expansion of depth.
What is a wide angle lens?
200
These are the three types of match cuts.
What are graphic match, match on action, and eyeline match?
200
These are the two major components of mine-en-scene. The first is established in pre-production, and the second involves the relationship between onscreen elements within each finalized shot.
What are design and composition?
200
This is the difference between form and content.
What is "content is what a story is about, form is how the story is about it."?
300
These are Rick Altman's 4 components of film sound, which help convey the idea that film sound is a representation.
What are the Sound Event – Physical Production Sound Narrative - Interpretation Sound Record – Recording and Storage Sound Reproduction – Playback/ Exhibition
300
These are three types of camera movement.
What are: Tilt, Pan, Tracking (dolly) shot, Crane, Steadicam, Handheld
300
The first three are continuity techniques, the second two are discontinuity techniques.
What are: a) Match on action, Long take, Dissolves and fades, Cross cutting, Continuous diegetic sound, Sound bridge, establishing shot, 180 degree rule, eyeline match, shot reverse shot b) Jump cut, Nondiegetic insert, Repetition of shots or events, Freeze frame, Any violation of continuity rules
300
T/F - Mise-en-scene is a formal characteristic specific to the medium of cinema.
What is false? The term comes from theater and means "putting in the scene"
300
_______ meanings are available on the surface of a movie, often at the level of story. __________ meaning exists below the surface and requires interpretation of formal cues.
What are explicit and implicit meanings?
400
These are the three principle "modes" in which sound can operate, sometimes combined in a single film.
What are realism, hyperrealism, and antirealism?
400
These are three qualities of light.
What are source, quality, color, direction (will also accept brightness, temperature)?
400
These are two of the four primary "logics" under which images can be joined together in film editing.
What are spatial, temporal, rhythmic, and graphic?
400
The first two are ways in which mise-en-scene is developed during pre-production, while the latter is one way mine-en-scene is developed during production.
What are design (costumes, sets, hair, lighting, props, casting) and composition (framing, kinesis, performance).
400
The essential parts of a good thesis are:
What are a specific subject, a precise argument, and a list of evidence?
500
These are three of the types of sound that might be heard in cinema:
What are music, dialog/vocal sounds, narration, ambient/environmental, and silence?
500
These are two pieces of equipment that affect the look of filmic photography.
What are film stock, lighting, and lenses? (Will also accept computers, due to the prevalence of CGI and digital color grading).
500
The first is hollywood montage, the second is Soviet montage.
What are: A) a condensation of space, time, and information to move the narrative forward, AND B) A theory of film editing wherein combination of often juxtaposing or unrelated images creates new meaning
500
This is one way that mis-en-scene overlaps with another aspect of film form.
What is (answer will vary).
500
These are the four major approaches to studying film within the discipline of Film Studies.
What are aesthetics, technology, economics and culture?
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