Directed by Martin Scorsese, this film is based on the memoir by Jordan Belfort.
What is The Wolf of Wall Street?
100
This silent film about an actor reluctant to take on roles in "talkies" won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2011.
What is The Artist?
100
A film technique where one character is shown looking at another character and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.
What is a shot/reverse shot?
100
This person appears in front of the camera.
What is the actor OR actress OR cast OR extra.
100
What the actors wear.
What is wardrobe OR costumes?
200
This film by director David O. Russell is loosely based on the FBI's ABSCAM operation of the late 1970s and early '80s.
What is American Hustle?
200
This Steven Spielberg directed film from 1975 features a shark that terrorizes a New England beach resort.
What is Jaws?
200
When a character looks off-screen at an object, another character or simply the view, the audience wants to see what the character sees. In this technique, the next shot will show the audience what the character is looking at.
What is an eyeline match?
200
This person guides actors in their performances and their understanding of the characters.
What is the director?
200
Objects the actors handle.
What are props?
300
This film starring Sandra Bullock takes place in outer space.
What is Gravity?
300
In this 1974 film, Marlon Brando plays a mob boss who "makes an offer that he can't refuse."
What is The Godfather?
300
When some action is happening in a shot, the same piece of action must be going on in the next shot. The editor can play with the timing, to match exactly or only approximately.
What is match on action?
300
This person oversees the recording of sound for each shot.
What is the Production Sound Mixer?
300
How the actors move, their facial expressions, how they deliver their lines.
What is action AND/OR performance?
400
This film tells the story of the abduction and enslavement Solomon Northrup, a free black man from upstate New York.
What is 12 Years a Slave?
400
The Bates Motel is the setting for this 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
What is Psycho?
400
If you were to diagram a scene using this technique and drew a line between the two characters, the camera would always be on one side of the line. All shots of the people must be taken from the same side of the line.
What is the 180-degree rule?
400
This person oversees the lighting and camera departments on a set.
What is the Director of Photography OR DP?
400
This determines the brightness of darkness of a shot. Types include available/existing or artificial/studio.
What is lighting?
500
In this Spike Jonze directed film, Joaquin Phoenix plays a man who falls in love with an intelligent OS.
What is Her?
500
This 1968 Stanley Kubrick film features one of the most famous jump cuts in film history.
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey??
500
This alternative editing technique should used sparingly.
What is Jump cut OR Slow motion OR Fast Motion OR Wipe transition OR Still/thaw frame OR Freeze frame OR Form cut OR Flash cut?
500
This person's job includes tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging logistics, preparing daily call sheets, checking cast and crew, maintaining order on the set.
What is the Assistant Director OR AD?
500
Options include high angle, low angle, or eye level?