The term used to describe the moving camera shot taken when camera scans a scene horizontally
What is a panning shot
100
The style of editing that tries to preserve the fluidity of an event without literally showing all of it.
What is continuity editing or cutting to continuity
100
This song is played repeatedly on Radio Raheem's boombox
What is Public Enemy's "Fight the Power"
100
This person, the second of four women ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, is the director of The Piano
Who is Jane Campion
100
This island country is the primary setting of The Piano
What is New Zealand
200
The term used to describe the whirling of the camera at a speed so rapid that only blurred images are recorded
What is a swish pan
200
The name of director who consolidated and expanded the film language of classical cutting in 1915.
Who is D. W. Griffith
200
This term is defined as sound that has its source within the world depicted in the film (for example, dialogue or music from a radio).
What is diegetic sound
200
The name of the main character in The Piano
Who is Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter)
200
The "disability" which afflicts the main character in The Piano
What is (elective) muteness
300
The term used to describe the moving camera shot taken when the camera is mounted on a vehicle
What is a tracking or dolly shot
300
The editing term for the most common type of shot used to film dialogue between two characters
What is the shot/reverse shot
300
This term that describes the recording of sound at the same time as the image.
What is synchronous sound.
300
Judging by the costumes, the historical period in which The Piano is set:
1600s (seventeenth century)
1700s (eighteenth century)
1800s (nineteenth century)
1900s (twentieth century)
What is the nineteenth century (around 1860)
300
The person who sends the main character in The Piano to be married Alisdair Stewart (Sam Neil)
Who is Ada's father
400
The type of shot that allows camera operators to move into or out of scenes with greater flexibility and speed.
What is a handheld shot
400
This sequence in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin is one the most often used to demonstrate the possibilities of montage editing
What is the Odessa Steps sequence
400
The style of musical in which the production numbers are presented as dramatically plausible
What is realistic (musicals)
400
The name of the indigenous people who populate the backdrop of The Piano
Who are the Maori
400
The two primary ways the main character in The Piano communicates
What are sign language (interpreted by her daughter) and writing (on a pad hung around her neck).
Also acceptable, touch and playing the piano.
500
The title of the 1980 film that employs the most impressive early use of the Steadicam
What is Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
500
The term used to describe the style of editing whereby the conflict of two shots produces a wholly new idea.
What is dialectical
500
The title of the film that ushered in the talkie era in 1927
What is The Jazz Singer
500
The main character, her daughter, and the piano are all shipped to the colony from this country.
What is Scotland
500
Stewart (Sam Neil) trades his wife's piano to Baines (Harvey Keitel) in exchange for this