Film Production
Film History
Misc. Film Terms
Comfort/Discomfort
Artistic/Realistic
100
This is the first of the five phases involved in creating a film.
What is DEVELOPMENT?
100
This was invented in the late 1890s (late 19th Century).
What is the motion picture camera? or What is Filmmaking?
100
This is the wagon or cart on which a camera travels for certain camera shots.
What is a DOLLY?
100
This is what an audience always feels during a zoom shot.
What is DISCOMFORT or AWKWARDNESS?
100

This is an ARTISTIC technique that involves adjusting the F-stop to a higher-than-perfect number to close the aperture more than the light meter says to for perfect exposure.

What is UNDEREXPOSURE?

200
The person responsible for financing a film.
Who is a PRODUCER?
200
This was the first artistic movement to influence American filmmaking.
What is GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM?
200
This is the person who writes a script for a film.
What/Who is a SCREENWRITER?
200
Camera or subject movement in this direction is UNCOMFORTABLE.
What is RIGHT to LEFT or TO THE LEFT?
200

Using black and white film is generally considered this type of filmmaking technique.

What is an ARTISTIC technique?

300
This person is considered the Author of a film.
Who is the DIRECTOR?
300
The time and place that movies called FILM NOIR were first made.
What is the United States in the late 1940s (post-WWII)?
300
This is considered the positive side of the screen.
What is the RIGHT SIDE of the screen?
300
Camera or subject movement in this direction is COMFORTABLE.
What is LEFT to RIGHT or TO THE RIGHT?
300

A director normally uses this type of technique to pull audience members into the story, connect them with characters, or make them feel like it is (or was) an actual story that takes (or took) place.

What is a REALISTIC filmmaking technique or What is REALISM?

400
This person is considered the Author of LIGHT in a film.
Who is the CINEMATOGRAPHER?
400
From the 1930s through the 1950s, American filmmaking was dominated by this "System".
What is the Hollywood Studio System?
400
This is the term used for when there is no transitional effect used between shots.
What is a CUT?
400

This camera FRAMING is UNCOMFORTABLE when it's used in the first shot of a scene.

What is a CLOSE UP (CU) or EXTREME CLOSE UP (ECU)?

400
Using NARRATION is generally considered this type of technique.
What is an ARTISTIC audio technique?
500
An EDITOR is usually only involved during this phase of a film production.
What is POST-PRODUCTION?
500
This was the first "talkie" film (a film with live dialogue sound in it).
What is THE JAZZ SINGER?
500
Usually a wide or extremely wide shot, this is a shot that can protect a director and editor when editing a scene, especially one with a lot of characters and different camera shots in it.
What is a MASTER SHOT? or What is an ESTABLISHING SHOT?
500
This type of camera angle, when the bottom of the screen is not parallel with the ground, is artistic and uncomfortable to an audience.
What is a CANTED or OBLIQUE angle?
500
If a director wants to separate the film from the audience, he or she would likely use a lot of these techniques.
What are ARTISTIC techniques?
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