Cinematography
Mise en Scène
Narrative
Editing
Sound
Potpourri
100
This term describes the relationship between the width and height of the film frame.
What is aspect ratio
100
This is the basic compositional "rule" used for the frame.
What is the rule of thirds?
100
This term refers to the chronological chain of events in a film's narrative.
What is story?
100
This nation's filmmakers developed montage theory, arguing that meaning emerges from the juxtaposition of shots.
Who are the Soviet filmmakers?
100
A suspenseful musical score warns the audience of danger, but the characters cannot hear it. This sound comes from outside of the story world.
What is non-diegetic sound?
100
Bela Lugosi’s permanent association with Dracula and horror is a famous example of this.
What is typecasting?
200
When a stationary camera scans a scene horizontally, it performs this movement.
What is a pan
200
This term describes the planned placement and movement of actors within a scene.
What is blocking?
200
In A Simple Plan, this event functions as the hook or inciting incident.
What is the discovery of the crashed plane & the 4 million in cash.
200
It has been said that the sum total of the film is the product of its:
What is editing?
200
Dialogue, traffic, and music from a radio within a scene belong to this category of sound.
What is diegetic sound?
200
These performers typically occupy distinctive supporting roles that help populate the story world.
What are character actors?
300
Basic three-point lighting uses these three lights.
What are key, fill, and back
300
In what film did we see the character of Rick Blaine introduced simultaneously signing a check, smoking a cigarette, drinking a martini, and playing chess against himself?
What is Casablanca?
300
Unlike the complete chronological story, this term describes the events a film presents and the order in which it presents them.
What is plot?
300
This editing technique deliberately disrupts continuous time and is not normally associated with invisible continuity editing
What is a jump cut?
300
The contemporary phrase for placing a pre-existing song into a scene.
What is a needle drop?
300
The Oscar winning cinematographer responsible for shooting this:
Who is Roger Deakins?
400
Harsh contrasts, deep shadows, and dramatic areas of darkness are characteristics of this lighting style.
What is low key lighting
400
Production Designer Tom Duffell had to be period specific for the film Ed Wood but also true to the low budget films showcased by Wood. An example being from this 1955 film:
What is Bride of the Monster
400
Two Part Question:
The name for the highest dramatic point in the film.
Name an example from a film we have watched this semester. (1917, Ed Wood, A Simple Plan, Matinee)
Double time to answer
What is the climax?
400
Breaking this editing rule can disrupt screen direction and produce spatial confusion.
What is the 180 degree rule?
400
The symphonic score lost some of its appeal and appreciation in the late 60s which gave birth to the _________ approach. A collection of songs edited into the fabric of the film.
What is Soundtrack.
400
This acting tradition emphasizes internal experience, including memory, the senses, and living truthfully in the moment
What is method acting?
500
This angle is usually skewed and titled creating an unbalanced and uneasy feeling.
What is a Dutch, Canted, or Oblique angle?
500
In this stylistic approach, visual extravagance becomes so dominant that the film’s excess may rival the story for our attention.
What is mannerist MES?
500
Three act structure consists of Act _____, Act 2_____, and Act 3______.
What are setup, conflict, resolution
500
This editing phenomenon was demonstrated in our viewing when the same shot of a face appears to express different emotions -- depending on the shot placed after it
What is the Kuleshov effect?
500
Name the theme and composer
What is Raiders of the Lost Ark, John Williams
500
Who is William Castle?