Camera Moovin'
Camera Groovin'
Camera Groovin'
Ya Heard?!?
Chop, Chop
Watch Me
Much Meez, So Scene. Wow.
100
When the camera seems to look down at the subject from above.
What is a high angle shot?
OR
What is an overhead shot?
100
When a sound originates within a 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 editing technique used to suture together most of these scenes from On the Town (1949) and the camera position in front of the Statue of Liberty.
What is a dissolve and
What is a low angle?
100
The best descriptor of the 'look' of this scene from Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009).
What is monochromatic color design?
200
The "camera" distance in this shot from They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969).
What is a medium close-up (MCU)?
200
A sound occurs, but the source of it is not revealed until 20 minutes later.
What is nonsimultaneous sound?
OR
What is sonic flashforward?
200
The pattern of shots that occurs while the Priest (in cream/white) holds a gun to Eddie's head in this clip from Superfly (2018).
What is shot/reverse shot?
200
The lighting technique used at the opening, and a description of the depth of field/focal length in this clip from the music video for Tyler, The Creator's song "Yonkers" (2011).
What is backlighting and
What is selective focus OR racking focus?
200
The best way to describe the composition of this frame from The Good Place (2016-2020).
What is symmetrical?
300
The first camera movement in this clip from Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005).
What is a crane shot? (Crane up)
300
The type of sound used in this clip from Moonlight (2016).
What is nondiegetic sound?
300
The term for the dominant pattern of editing in this scene from Mr. Robot (2015-2019).
What is an eyeline match?
300
The two techniques used to open this scene from Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea (2013-2014) and the two types of camera movement used in it:
What are fade in + sound bridge and
What are pans and tilts?
300
The three components to 3-point lighting.
What are: 1. key light 2. fill light 3. back light?
400
The first major camera movement in this clip from Men in Black (1997).
What is a tracking shot? (Track back)
400
The sound technique that describes the function of Woody's lines in the following clip from Toy Story (1995):
What is dialogue overlap?
400
The editing pattern in this scene from Dynasty (2017- ).
What is a montage?
OR
What is elliptical editing?
400
The two types of sound and the two editing techniques used in this clip from Scandal (2012-2018):
What are external diegetic + nondiegetic sound and
What are shot/reverse shot + wipe?
400
Constantin Stanislavski's acting technique.
Method Acting
500
The lens used to shoot this frame from The Graduate (1967).
What is a telephoto (or long-focal-length) lens?
500
The function of the alarm clock in this clip from The Matrix (1999).
What is a sound bridge?
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
All the major camera movements & directions and edits, in order, in this clip from Casablanca (1942):
What are:
Cut
Tilt down
Track/Dolly forward
(Slight pan left)
Cut
Track/Dolly left
Track/Dolly forward
Cut
and Pan left?
500
The quality of light in this shot from The Maltese Falcon (1941).
What are is hard lighting?