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100
When the camera seems to look up at the subject matter from below.
What is a low angle shot?
100
When a sound originates within the film's story world.
What is diegetic sound?
100
When a film cuts to a shot of something that isn't from its story world.
What is a nondiegetic insert?
100
The most notable aspect of this clip from NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955).
What is low-key lighting/back-lighting?
100
The best descriptor of this scene from FANTASTIC MR. FOX (2009).
What is monochromatic color design?
200
When a scene is too bright, because a great deal of light is passing through the camera lens.
What is overexposure?
200
In the following clip from TOY STORY (1995), Buzz's choking, Woody's "It's the REAL Buzz Lightyear," Woody's fallen-over laughing, and the dog are all examples of this technique.
What is offscreen diegetic sound?
200
When scene begins with a pitch black frame and the next shot slowly appears.
What is a fade in?
200
The most notable aspect(s) of this clip from THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994).
What is an establishing shot/aerial shot/extended crane shot?
200
The best way to describe the composition of this frame from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971).
What is bilateral symmetry?
300
When the camera swivels on a vertical axis--like turning your head left or right.
What is a pan?
300
When a sound continues from one shot across the cut into the next (or begins in the shot before it is revealed diegetically).
What is a sound bridge?
300
The term that describes the pattern of editing in this clip from THE DEPARTED (2006).
What is crosscutting?
300
The most notable aspect(s) of this clip from NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955).
What are low key lighting, canted angle framing, and a zoom to close-up?
300
The three components to 3-point lighting.
What are: 1. key light 2. fill light 3. back light?
400
When the frame rate is varied during shooting.
What is ramping?
400
A sound occurs, but the source of it is not revealed until 20 minutes later.
What is a nonsimultaneous sound?
400
When a film cuts from a person to the thing s/he is looking at, shot from roughly the angle of that person's perspective.
What is an eyeline match?
400
The most notable aspects of this clip from HE GOT GAME (1998).
What are: 1. shallow focus 2. offscreen diegetic sound 3. racked focus 4. broken 180 degree rule?
400
The 2 depth cues combined in this shot from THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002).
What are size diminution and aerial perspective?
500
The lens used to shoot this frame from THE GRADUATE (1967).
What is a telephoto (or long-focal-length) lens?
500
The 4 main sound techniques that are used in this clip from STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987-1994).
What are: 1. external (objective) diegetic sound [speaking characters, "whooshes," computer sounds] 2. internal (subjective) diegetic sound [Q's voice in her head] 3. nondiegetic sound [music/soudtrack] 4. offscreen diegetic sound [the "doorbell"]?
500
When a film cuts from one shot to a second, in which either the foreground or the background has changed slightly, suggesting a small ellipsis of time between the two shots.
What is a jumpcut?
500
Difficult to detect editing decision that occurs in this clip from MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944).
What is a cheat cut?
500
The two primary descriptors that apply to the composition of this shot from BREAKING BAD (2008-2013).
What are: 1. bilateral symmetry 2. deep space composition
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