2 Thumbs Up
Cut!
Nice Shot
The Auteurs
Khabele Film Trivia
100
The three fields of film studies.
What are film history, film criticism, and film theory?
100
The name of the editing software we use at Khabele.
What is Premiere CS6?
100
The difference between your shutter and aperture.
What is the shutter opens and closes every second (affecting how movement is seen either crisply or with motion blur) and the aperture is set by choosing an f-stop (affecting how much light is let in or shut out of the lens)?
100
This man made the first movie ever. He was also a murderer.
Who is Edweard Muybridge?
100
The way to set up office hours for film class.
What is a formal email to Alex?
200
Two types of film criticism.
What is academic (analyzes) and journalistic (analyzes AND entertains mass audiences)?
200
The first thing that you should do after the director yells "Cut!" and you're ready to start editing.
What is make and label a folder for your project OR drag files into the folder you've already set up?
200
The way to set your frame rate and shutter speed in order to achieve a slow motion shot with motion blur.
What is a higher frame rate (more than 24 or 30 fps) and slow shutter speed (slower than twice your frame rate)?
200
The director of 'Birth of a Nation', who claimed to be "not racist" while advancing the popularity of the KKK. He also innovated many formalist filmmaking techniques.
Who is D.W. Griffith?
200
Where all of your final films should end up in this class.
Where is the class hard drive OR Youtube's "Khabele Student Films" page?
300
The challenges AND successes for women in early Hollywood.
What is women were portrayed as helpless, infantile, and later women directors were pushed out of the industry AND women like Alice Guy-Blache helped to counter this by making movies with her own production company, Solax?
300
Two ways to change the volume of your audio.
What is click on the arrow tab to reveal the orange DB line and move it up or down OR use pen tool OR use Audio Mixer?
300
An explanation of both the 180-degree rule and rule of thirds.
What is the rule that says there is a 180-degree line drawn across the dialogue and/or action that cannot be crossed without violating continuity and eyeline matching AND the rule that says our eyes are mostly drawn to the crosshairs of a screen divided into thirds?
300
The director of the 'Katsi' trilogy: Koyanisquatsi, Powaqqatsi, and Naquoyqatsi AND why his films were innovative.
Who is Godfrey Reggio? His films were innovative because they did not include traditional narrative structure, dialogue, much sound, and focused entirely on capturing beautiful cinematography that reflected human lives around the world.
300
Two prerequisites for checking out film equipment.
What is make sure your film contract is signed and then email Alex? (She'll reply with the Google Spreadsheet that details your checkout items and time.)
400
One movie from early cinema with bad or stereotypical representations of a minority group and one movie from early cinema with good or authentic representations of a minority group.
What are 'Birth of a Nation' (bad, stereotypes of black men as violent and destructive) and 'Within Our Gates' (representations of what actually happened between racial groups during the rise of lynchings in the 1920s)?
400
How to create AND move your titles.
What is Title>Default Still or Command>Title? To move them, add keyframes in the Effect Controls window.
400
An explanation of aspect ratio, the aspect ratio that we most often use, and the aspect ratio most often used throughout 20th classic Hollywood cinema.
What is width by length of your frame; 16:9 or 1920x1080p; 4:3?
400
The directors of 'Within Our Gates,' which showed black people and their authentic experiences in early cinema AND the director of 'The Cabbage Fairy' which was the first narrative of all time.
Who are Oscar Mischeaux and Alice Guy-Blache
400
The name of the Khabele TV Show that is both on the "Khabele Student Films" Youtube page and shown each semester at Pitsos.
What is 'Office Hours'?
500
Eight types of film theory and brief explanations of each.
What are GAFFMAPS (Genre Auteur Feminist Formalist Apparatus Psychoanalytical Structuralist)?
500
Five types of transitions AND five types of effects in our software.
More than sixty possibilities, including the most often used: Cross Dissolve, Film Dissolve, Additive Dissolve, Dip to Black, Dip to White, Wipe, Gradient Wipe, Slide, Push, Iris, 3-D Cube-Spin, Page Peel, Exponential Fade, Constant Fade, Constant Power, Color Key, Ultra Key, Color Correction, Brightness & Contrast, Strobe Light, Flash Light, Mosaic, Tint
500
Five ways to create a scene that looks like professional 35 mm film using HD cameras?
What are create a shallow depth of field, set camera to neutral, use anticipatory framing, follow the rule of thirds OR very intentional symmetry, use all elements of production design, and more...?
500
Three subgenres of comedy that represent 'To Be or Not to Be' and why this comedy was so controversial.
What are comedy of manners, comedy of errors, screwball comedy, or political satire? And it was controversial because the world really was at war with Nazis and it was hard for some to laugh at the organization responsible for such terror. (Other critical answers may also apply.)
500
The name of three film festivals that Khabele students have screened at and/or won awards.
What are Austin Youth Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, and South by Southwest?
M
e
n
u