Film Trivia
Montage
Montage
Continuity Editing
Continuity Editing
100
This 1980 film directed by Stanley Kubric was the first example of the use of the steadicam
What is The Shining
100
In this country, the term montage refers more specifically to a film sequence that relies on editing to condense or expand action, space, or time
What is the United States
100
In this style of montage, a car can travel across an entire country in less than a minute
What is American-style montage
100
Continuity editing is also known as this
What is invisible editing
100
The simplest transition from shot to shot is called this
What is the cut
200
This 1941 film directed by Orsen Wells was known for pioneering this depth of field technique
What is deep focus
200
In the 1920s, Soviet filmmakers were excited and inspired this revolution
What is the 1917 Marxist Revolution
200
This was Dziga Vertov's most famous film
What is The Man With the Movie Camera (1929)
200
The three essential ways of matching one shot to another
What are matching on action, eye-line matching, and graphic matching
200
This term refers to matching made on the basis of a compositional element
What is graphic matching
300
The first film in film history, directed by the Lumiere Brothers
What is Exiting the Factory (1895)
300
Montage is taken from this French word, which means to assemble
What is minter
300
Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov is said to have conducted an experiment where he cut together the image of an actor with these three images
What are a bowl of soup, a coffin, and little girl
300
This technique occurs when a piece of physical action in the first shot continues in the second shot
What is matching on action
300
This term can be used to describe an edit that occurs between a shot of a person and a following shot of an object
What is eye-line match or glance-object match
400
This 1948 Alfred Hitchcock film is an attempt to film an entire feature-length narrative in a single shot
What is The Rope
400
The most famous example of Soviet-style mongate in film history is this sequence from Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin
What is the Odessa Steps Sequence
400
These three key filmmakers pioneered the style of Soviet montage
Who are Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Dziga Vertov
400
This technique provides a simple but crucial way for filmmakers to preserve spatial coherence within a given scene
What is the 180 degree system
400
This technique is most frequently used to film dialogue between two characters in a scene
What is the shot/reverse-shot pattern
500
At the end of Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, Norma Desmond turns to her director and utters this famous line
What is "I'm ready for my closeup"
500
This french film theorist wrote that montage yields "the creation of a sense or meaning not proper to the images themselves but derived exclusively from their juxtaposition".
Who is Andre Bazin
500
The dirty little secret of the Kuleshov experiment is the fact that
What is "nobody is on record as ever having seen the film itself"
500
There is a famous graphic match in which film by Stanley Kubrick
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey
500
This technique is used to portray multiple lines of action, occurring in different places, simultaneously.
What is parallel editing
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