Vocabulary
What is frame rate?
The number of frames shown per second.
What was Thomas Edison's role in film history?
He created one of the first film studios and funded lots of films, but plagiarised the inventions of others.
What are the visual qualities of a Noir film?
Heavy shadows, lots of contrast of light and dark, extreme camera angles.
What is Rosebud a symbol for in Citizen Kane?
Childhood, nostalgia, innocence
What is the killer's name in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari?
Cesare
What is a pan?
Horizontal camera movement
How did the Hays Code affect filmmakers?
Filmmakers working during the Hays Code era had to comply to certain rules about what could be in their films.
What is a character archetype?
A person that is stereotypical in a genre.
What is the deer a symbol for in Get Out?
What the Armitage family does to Black people.
In the classic noir film starring Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon, what real island is the artifact, the Maltese Falcon from?
Malta
What is contrast?
The difference between the brightest and darkest areas within the frame.
Who was Alice Guy-Blaché?
Inventor of narrative film and the first woman to direct a movie.
What qualities define the detective as a character archetype?
Cold, intelligent, pessimistic
What is the monolith a symbol for in 2001: A Space Odyssey?
technology, religion, evolution, movie screens
The first sci-fi film, A Trip to the Moon, was directed by...
Georges Méliès
What is a Kuleshov Effect, or montage?
The combination of multiple different images to communicate a new idea.
What was D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation known for?
Racism was still prevalent and long narrative films were viable.
What would be an example of iconography in the horror genre?
Haunted house, graveyard, ghost
How are The Matrix and The Allegory of the Cave related?
Both are about enlightenment.
When a horse is running, is there a point when all four of its legs are off of the ground?
Yes.
What is post-production?
The point after filming where the focus is editing and sound.
How does The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari present social issues of the time it was made in?
The filmmakers used it to express their time being conscripted to fight in WWI and their fear of authoritarianism.
What is a trope?
A situation or event that is stereotypical in a genre.
What approach to shot composition did 12 Angry Men use to add tension to the film?
The camera moved closer towards the subjects to increase tension and create a feeling of claustrophobia.
What's the deal with Eraserhead?
Eraserhead clearly tells the tragic story of a man ground down by a cold, industrial society, unable to even raise a child because of the antagonistic nature of the world. Despite the best of intentions, he and his family are unable to stay together, let alone give their baby a happy upbringing; afterall, how are they meant to even provide food for their child when the chickens in this world are so repulsive? The only thing the protagonist has left to spur him vainly onward is the empty promise of the woman in the radiator, that in some far off, indistinct time and place, everything will be fine.