The History of Film
This invention by Thomas Edison enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures.
What is the kinetoscope?
Meaning is derived from this.
What is context?
This refers to a shot where the camera itself moves.
What is a dolly shot?
This famous child actor directed Apollo 13.
Who is Ron Howard?
Each page of a screenplay reflects exactly one of these in the film's runtime.
What is a minute?
What event caused the American film industry to flourish and the European industry to flounder?
What is the First World War?
This is the amount of time over which a movie takes place.
What is movie time?
This rather long shot is meant to let the audience know where the action is taking place.
What is an establishing shot?
This British actress plays Karen Eiffel in Stranger Than Fiction.
Who is Emma Thompson?
This kind of script is usually written by an amateur for an already existing T.V. show.
What is a "spec script," or speculation script?
This color process quickly became the industry standard after its use in films like The Wizard of Oz and Gone With The Wind.
What is Technicolor?
This is when the editing happens, and reshoots, if necessary.
What is post-production?
This variation of a medium shot is meant to showcase a character's weapons or equipment.
What is a cowboy shot?
This famous Italian composer wrote the score for Cinema Paradiso with his son.
Who is Ennio Morricone?
Celtx, Trelby, and Scrivener are all examples of this.
What is screenwriting software?
Edison adopted this kind of film as the industry standard, establishing 4:3 as the standard aspect ratio for the industry as a result.
What is 35mm?
While a producer spends the money, this person gets the money and finances the picture through various means.
What is an executive producer?
While a shot is what is recorded by a single, uninterrupted run of a camera, this is one instance of a shot.
What is a take?
Each episode of this science fiction anthology featured this man, hosting either in person or in a voice-over.
Who is Rod Serling?
What is the Blacklist?
This unreliable sound system used in The Jazz Singer was soon replaced by an optical, variable density sound system recorded directly on the film itself.
What is the Vitaphone system?
Formerly referred to as a “foreign film,” this categorization refers to a film produced by any country other than the US.
What is international film?
Norma Desmond said that she was ready for this shot, meant to showcase emotion, in Sunset Boulevard.
What is a close-up?
This famous Apollo 13 actor also appeared in New Jersey's own Friday the 13th and also played himself in the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.
Who is Kevin Bacon?
Screenplays use this font.
What is Courier?