Production
Three-point lighting is a standard method in filmmaking and photography that uses three light sources. What are they?
What is Key Light, Back Light, and Fill Light?
A standard Hollywood feature screenplay is divided into how many acts? Name them.
What is Act 1: Setup, Act 2: Confrontation, Act 3: Resolution?
He directed “Do the Right Thing,” “Malcolm X,” and “She’s Gotta Have It.”
Who is Spike Lee?
Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds, which are soon shattered when she witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend. What movie is this?
What is The Hate U Give?
This person oversees the wardrobe choices and overall look of what the characters wear.
What is the costume designer?
This process begins after filming wraps and includes editing, sound design, and visual effects.
What is post-production?
In storytelling, this character opposes the protagonist's goals.
What is the antagonist?
He directed "Set it Off", "Friday", and "Straight Outta Compton"
Who is F. Gary Gray?
This 2016 film used three chapters of a young man’s life to explore identity, masculinity, and queerness.
What is Moonlight?
This role involves managing the sound on set, often holding a long pole with a mic.
What is the boom operator?
The person in charge of all the visual aspects of a film, often collaborating with the director, is the ____.
What is the cinematographer (or director of photography)?
It is known that each page in a script is roughly ____ minute/s.
What is One page= one minute?
"The Color Purple" film adaptation was directed by __ in 1985, while the 2023 movie musical adaptation was directed by__.
Who is Steven Spielberg? Blitz Bazawule?
This musical drama follows a fictional R&B male group on their rise and fall through the industry.
What is The Five Heartbeats?
This person handles the marketing, sales, and distribution of the film to audiences.
What is a distributor?
This behind-the-scenes role manages the logistics of a film shoot—scheduling, budgeting, and coordinating departments—but rarely gets public recognition.
What is the line producer?
This industry-standard software is widely used to format screenplays.
What is Final Draft?
This person is widely considered the first black filmmaker/director, with films called "The Homesteader" and "Within Our Gates".
Who is Oscar Micheaux?
Set in 1960s Louisiana, this film follows a young girl uncovering family secrets in a Creole household haunted by betrayal, memory, and mysticism.
What is Eve's Bayou?
This person creates digital and computer-generated effects.
What is a visual effects (VFX) Artist?
This term describes the combination of camera movement, angle, and composition used to convey mood or character psychology.
What is cinematography (or visual language)?
List the majority of terms that make up the different script elements of a screenplay.
What is Act, Scene Heading, Dialogue, Character, Action, Parenthetical, Transition, Shot, and Text?
What was Ava DuVernay's first and recent film?
What is Middle of Nowhere? Origin?
This 1992 coming-of-age film follows a sharp-tongued Brooklyn teenager with dreams of becoming a doctor as she confronts the harsh realities of teen pregnancy and systemic inequality.
What is Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.?
This key creative helps shape the look and feel of the film’s world—think walls, props, furniture, colors.
What is the production designer (or art director)?