The Movie
The Scenes
The Camera
Hollywood History
Grab Bag
100
Meaning that lies below the surface of a movie's story
What is implicit meaning?
100
In THE DARK KNIGHT, the type of camera angle that denotes The Joker's power.
What is a low-angle?
100
How the visual significance of a character is increased.
What is dollying in?
100
A small storefront theater converted to show films
What is a nickelodeon?
100
The filmmaker's intent is an important element of this type of analysis.
What is formal analysis?
200
The joining together of discreet individual shots
What is editing?
200
The idea or element that is conveyed through the close-up of Indiana Jones's whip.
What is power?
200
The camera adjusts to see what the actor sees each time he or she turns his or her head.
What is point of view?
200
The first movie mogul
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
This term comes from the Greek word "kinesis."
What is "cinema"?
300
The director of THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
Who is Edwin Porter?
300
In RAIDERS OF THE ARK, short, staccato violin sounds illustrate these.
What are spiders?
300
The most straightforward example of a film grammar that draws upon the way we automatically interpret visual information in our real lives.
What is fade-in/fade-out?
300
Edison's movie studio
What is The Black Maria?
300
Almost all commercial feature-length movies share this basic characteristic.
What is narrative?
400
The myriad of integrated techniques and concepts connecting us to the story while deliberately concealing the means by which they do so
What is cinematic language?
400
In JUNO, during the waiting room scene, this is added every time fingernails are shown.
What is another noise?
400
The combined use of zoom in/zoom out and dolly in/dolly out.
What is racking?
400
Invented the Magic Lantern
Who is Christian Huygens?
400
The most common editing technique designed to hide the instantaneous shift from camera viewpoint to another.
What is cutting on action?
500
The number of images per second that the human eye and brain see as fluid movement.
What is 24?
500
In filming the train crash in Hugo's dream, the number of takes required.
What is two?
500
The name of the Lumiere brothers' camera
What is the cinematographe?
500
Director of A TRIP TO THE MOON
Who is Georges Melies?
500
The type of strips on which motion pictures were originally captured, cut, and projected.
What is celluloid?
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