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Angles & Lighting
100
This is composed of the set and props, the look of the characters (costumes, make-up and hair), blocking, etc.
What is mise-en-scene?
100
"A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise." (Google/Wikipedia/IMDB)
What is Do The Right Thing?
100
A group of post World War II directors including François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, etc, who seek to create a more spontaneous and personal style of filmmaking.
What is French New Wave?
100
Actress who played Ree Dolly
Who is Jennifer Lawrence?
100
A lens with a variable focus that can come out (or in) to either lengthen or diminish the apparent distance between the camera and subject.
What is Zoom lens?
200
The filming of a scene in a found location rather than a constructed scene.
What is location shooting?
200
"Faced with an unresponsive mother and a criminal father, an Ozark teenager does what she can to manage the household and take care of her two younger siblings." (Wikipedia/Google/IMDB)
What is Winter's Bone?
200
A cinematic style that emerged in Germany between the two world wars. Expressionism is visually characterized by chiaroscuro lighting and highly stylized sets.
What is German Expressionism?
200
Actress who played Nadine.
Who is Hailee Steinfeld?
200
A shot produced with a camera that moves smoothly alongside, behind, or ahead of the action.
What is a tracking shot?
300
An editing pattern that cuts between a character looking and the object of his or her gaze.
What is Eyeline Match?
300
"Everyone knows that growing up is hard, and life is no easier for a high school junior who is already at peak awkwardness when her all-star older brother starts dating her best friend."
What is The Edge of Seventeen?
300
A French term for a style originating with American crime films of the 1940s and 1950s, characterized by deep shadows, night scenes, shady characters, and plots including schemes and betrayals.
What is film noir?
300
Actress who played Tina (Do The Right Thing)
Who is Rosie Perez?
300
A lateral camera movement along an imaginary horizontal axis.
What is a pan?
400
A way of connecting two or more shots through repeated shapes or patterns.
What is graphic match?
400
"Petty thug considers himself a suave bad guy in the manner of Humphrey Bogart, but panics and impulsively kills a policeman while driving a stolen car." (Wikipedia/Google/IMDB)
What is Breathless?
400
A post World War II film movement in Italy in which directors adapted the conventions of documentary realism in their fiction films.
What is Italian Neo-realism?
400
Actor who played Teardrop (Winter's Bone)
Who is John Hawkes?
400
A shot made with a portable camera that may show signs of not being mounted.
What is a handheld shot?
500
A transitional device where one image appears to be pushed aside by the next.
What is wipe transition?
500
"In this classic film noir, an insurance salesman gets roped into a murderous scheme when he falls for the sensual Phyllis Dietrichson who is intent on killing her husband and living off the fraudulent accidental death claim." (Google/Wikipedia/IMDB)
What is Double Indemnity?
500
In which everything is composed of contradictions (like opposing forces). Gradual changes which lead to crises turning points when one force overcomes its opponent force.
What is Soviet Montage?
500
Actor who played Carl Showalter (Fargo)
Who is Steve Buscemi?
500
A balanced lighting scheme that employs three points of illumination; a bright light that directs our eyes to the subject, a balancing light, and a light behind the subject to add highlights. (Name all three).
What is What is Three Point Lighting (Key light, fill light, backlight).
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