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The Auteurs
Making History
The Big Premiere
Lights, Camera, Action!
100
The name of one film critic and why they are important.
Who are WG Faulkner, Bryer, Sergei Eisenstein, Andre Bazin, Richard Corliss, Kristin Thompason, Roger Ebert, and Elvis Mitchell? Explanations vary*.
100
A definition of auteur theory.
What is the theory that one filmmaker's voice, style, and trademarks make them the singular "author" of the film?
100
Why Edweard Muybridge is a part of film history.
What is he made the first ever film, Horse in Motion, and he also murdered his wife's suspected lover but got away with it?
100
How editors keep track of all of our files.
What is folders/bins?
100
How to create a shallow depth of field through an aperture.
What is a wide aperture/low f-Stop?
200
The difference between journalistic, academic film criticism/film theory.
What is the fact that journalism criticism can be told in first person whereas academic film criticism is in third person and relates films to society, reality, other art forms, other academic subjects like psychology, politics, etc.?
200
One reason some people do not believe in Auteur Theory.
What is because films are made by so many people, some believe there isn't a single "author"?
200
The 3 "first films" ever made and why there are three.
What is the Horse in Motion had multiple cameras; Roundhay was the first filmed in one device; Arrival of the Train was the first finished product shown to a theater audience?
200
The difference between an effect and transition in Premiere.
What is effects change the quality of the file and transitions help move from one clip to another?
200
How to create slow motion through your camera.
What is set the camera to record at a higher frame rate (more than 60 fps)?
300
Choose one film that we have watched or made together as a class and provide a brief analysis using 2 or more of the following film theories: genre, apparatus, psychoanalytical, feminist, and/or Marxist.
Answers vary*.
300
Everything you know about the auteur, D.W. Griffith.
What is he created the first epic film (3 hours) in 1915, panoramic shots, parallel editing, but 'Birth of a Nation' also inspired the rebirth of the KKK? His films were all innovative and explored race and humanity, even in ways that were destructive.
300
The first narrative of all time and its director.
What is 'The Cabbage Fairy' by Alice Guy-Blache?
300
How to create a title in Premiere.
What is Title>New Title, Right Click>New Title, or Command + T?
300
How to create an effect that makes every frame crisp.
What is raise your shutter speed to more than double your frame rate (so that is opens/closes at more than 1/60 sec)?
400
Choose one film that we have watched or made together as a class and provide a brief analysis using 2 or more of the following film theories: structuralist, realist, formalist, neo-formalist, and/or semiotics.
Answers vary*.
400
Everything you know about the auteur, George Melies.
What is he was the first to create the sci-fi genre for cinema, movie scores, innovated special effects, hand-colored frames, giant casts and production design, but his early 1900s films were seen as cheesy after WWI and he burned most of his work, which was only rediscovered in the 1930s?
400
The first film made by an African-American and the name of that director.
What is 'Within Our Gates' directed by Oscar Mischeaux?
400
The window where we modify effects and keyframes.
What is effect controls?
400
Eight kinds of moving shots.
What are pan, tracking, tilt, crane, jib, zoom, dolly, dolly zoom, following, dutch-tilt, arc shot, 360-shot?
500
Explain what each letter stands for and provide an example for each of the following: GASP FUN FARMS
Genre Apparatus Semiotics Psychoanalytical Formalist Uhhh Neo-Formalist Feminist Auteur Realist Marxist Structuralist Examples vary.*
500
Five examples of directors you believe are auteurs and why.
Answers vary.*
500
The earliest known device that portrayed the illusion of motion and when it was invented.
What is the zoetrope invented by Ding Huan in 100 AD China?
500
The difference between the video format we shoot in vs. the video format we export in.
What is that we shoot in 1080p23.98 or 1080p29.97 but export to .MP4 files?
500
Twenty types of static camera shots.
What are Establishing, Master, EWS, WS, LS, MLS, MS, MCU, CU, ECU, Cut-In/Insert, Cutaway, High Angle, Bird's Eye View, Low Angle, Worm's Eye View, Overhead Shot, Cowboy Shot, 2 Shot, 3 Shot, Group Shot, Dutch Angle, Profile, Quarter Profile, OTS, clean, dirty, handheld, POV?
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