Mise-en-scene & Cinematography
Set Design, Costume and Makeup Design, Character Movement and Behavior, and Lighting
What type of sound can be heard by characters in the film?
Diegetic sound
What European film movement saw young directors trying to break away from the traditional films of their fathers' generation?
The French New Wave
Films of this type use documentary film techniques, but usually to comedic ends.
Mockumentaries
This video game features highly-pixelated graphics and can only be played on an "overwhelming" display mode.
Curtain
What type of camera angle is used to make characters appear small or weak?
High angle shot
What type of sequence presents an action from a particular character's perspective?
Point of View sequence or Point of View Focalization
This post-WWII European new wave inspired a later film movement in France.
Italian Neorealism
Combining elements of two or more genres is known as:
Genre mixing
Stan Brakhage famously made a short experimental film using what unconventional material?
Moths' wings
What type of lens allows shifting between wide angle and telephoto shots?
A zoom lens.
A shot lasting five seconds or less.
A short take
What term, coined by Hamid Naficy, refers to a type of filmmaking that encompasses exilic, diasporic, and ethnic modes of film production?
Accented cinema
A portrait documentary
Thomas Edison gave his early film studio this name:
The Black Maria
What device is harnessed to a camera operator's body and uses a servomotor to create smooth and continuous movements?
A steadicam
A dissolve
An editing technique made famous by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard.
Jump cut
Scholar Rick Altman proposed using this type of approach to examining film genres.
A semantic/syntactic approach
Douglas Gordon takes a chilling moment and makes it seem endless in this video art homage to Alfred Hitchcock.
24 Hour Psycho
This type of shot uses a careful pairing of camera lens and lighting to keep all objects in all planes in clear and sharp focus within the shot.
Deep focus shot
This type of sound may be heard by some characters in the film, but not all.
A subjective sound or an internal diegetic sound
Many of the directors of the French New Wave began as critics writing for this publication.
Cahiers du Cinema
What type of documentary form tries to convince the viewer of something?
Rhetorical form
Who conducted a photography experiment in order to settle a bet about the nature of a horse's gallop?
Eadweard Muybridge