This type of shot occurs when the camera remains stationary but swivels horizontally so as to scan across an area.
What is a pan shot?
100
This type of editing occurs when a film cuts back and forth between two (or more) events that occur at different locations or at different times.
What is paralel editing?
100
This type of visual movement happens when the camera remains stationary but the director manipulates the lenses to change from a long, wide shot to an extreme close, tight shot.
What is a zoom shot?
100
This is the conventional cinema style, middle-of-the-road filmmaking, which leans very far neither toward the formalistic or the realistic.
What is classical cinema?
100
This happens when two characters are balanced in a frame, and therefore meant to be compared or contrasted, because of similar appearance or posture.
What is parallelism?
200
This happens when the camera literally and physically moves in, out, or alongside a moving figure.
What is a dolly shot?
200
This is a type of editing that contains cuts which seek to preserve the narrative of an event without showing all of that event.
What is cutting to continuity?
200
This emotional effect is created when a villainous or devious character moves toward the camera.
What is hostile, frightning, fearful, etc.
200
This is the approach to film that aspires to represent “unstaged reality” and “nature caught in the act,” that “attempts to reproduce reality with a minimum of distortion."
What is realism?
200
A sense of security or safety is created when the major visual elements of a shot are placed in this basic pattern?
What is a circular shape?
300
In this type of shot happens when the camera remains stationary but swivels vertically so as to scan up or down an area or object.
What is a tilt shot?
300
This uses bright lighting techniques with even illumination and few conspicuous shadows.
What is high key lighting?
300
The average human eye can visually detect this many images simultaneously.
What is seven or eight?
300
This is the approach to film that focuses on the “stylistically flamboyant,” that seeks “spiritual and psychological truths best conveyed by distorting the world."
What is formalism?
300
This feeling for a character is created when the character is separated spatially from other characters with more space around him or her.
What is dominance?
400
This type of shot embodies the subject with power and/or importance.
What is a low angle shot?
400
This is a type of editing developed by Sergei Eisenstein— which is very evident in the “Odessa Steps” sequence of the film The Battleship Potemkin. It involves
What is collision montage?
400
In terms of an actor’s movement horizontally across the screen, the most tense, decisive, or disruptive (and therefore the less psychologically “natural”) direction of movement happens in this direction.
What is right to left?
400
This type of film theorist or director would clam that their major concern is with content?
What is a realist?
400
The edge of the frame where a director would place a character if he wanted to portray the character as powerless or weak.
What is the bottom edge of the frame?
500
This type of shot is a long, continuous shot with no editing cuts whatsoever.
What is a sequence shot?
500
The basic elements of editing syntax were already in place when this director began making movies in 1908, but it was he more than any other individual who molded these elements of film powerfully.
Who is D.W. Griffith?
500
In terms of an actor’s movement horizontally across the screen, the most psychologically “natural” (and therefore the less tense, decisive, or disruptive) direction of movement is this type.
What is left to right?
500
Edward T. Hall’s theory of “proxemic patterns” describes five degrees of this kind of separation?
What is the distance of space between people?
500
Generally, most conventional films place the most important visual elements in this area of the frame.