Television
Mise-en-scene
Narrative & Narration
Editing
Misc.
100
These segmentalize commercial TV episodes into smaller "acts".
What are spot ads?
100
This type of lighting is used in film noirs.
What is low-key lighting?
100
These types of narration refer to how much story information is given.
What is restricted and unrestricted narration?
100
This editing style is used in Classical Hollywood Cinema.
What is continuity editing?
100
This person has a hand in all stages of the filmmaking process, from development through exhibition.
What is the producer?
200
24 is an extreme example of this type of tv form.
What is the TV serial?
200
Lighting and costumes are two parts of mise-en-scene. The other two are....
What are setting and staging?
200
This term describes the chain of events in chronological order.
What is the story?
200
This is the name of the most basic way to join shots in a film.
What is the cut?
200
This is the standard rate of projection of the film image.
What is 24 frames per second?
300
This medium is considered the biggest influence on the early television form.
What is radio?
300
Important to the theme of the film are these two places that feature prominently in Meet Me in St Louis.
What is the family home and St. Louis?
300
This term refers to the world of the story.
What is the diegesis?
300
Godard's Breathless is famous for this editing technique.
What is the jump cut?
300
Daybreak Express is an example of this scale and kind of filmmaking.
What is small-scale and independent?
400
According to Marriott and Ellis, this attribute has historically defined television.
What is liveness?
400
Killer of Sheep is set in this US city.
What is LA?
400
These are examples of three films we have seen in class that use a narrator.
What are The Gleaners and I, Chungking Express, Double Indemnity, Six O'Clock News, etc.?
400
This "rule" helps filmmakers to maintain continuity of space and movement between shots
What is the 180 degree rule?
400
Laugh tracks in TV sitcoms are an example of this kind of sound.
What is non-diegetic sound?
500
The 'sphere' in which TV sitcoms are traditionally set.
What is the domestic sphere?
500
The mise-en-scene in Double Indemnity creates a world defined by these adjectives, relevant to most film noirs.
What is dark, paranoid, fatalistic, labyrinthine, etc.?
500
This is the plot section in Citizen Kane that functions to inform the viewer that what they are about to see is a fictional biography.
What is the "News on the March" segment.
500
This phenomenon is called the Kuleshov Effect.
What is the effect of an assumed spatial relation between two spatially separate shots?
500
These are the two parts of the sign.
What is the signifier and the signified?
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