Screenplays
Character and Setting
Notable Films
Notable History
Grab Bag
100
Screenwriters are responsible for creating this.
What is story?
100
Related to duration and setting, it is the overall range, in time and place, of a movie's story.
What is scope?
100
In TITANIC, the story of Rose Calvert's diamond was part of this.
What is the backstory?
100
The star who changed the way musicals were staged and how stars were shot.
Who is Fred Astaire?
100
The film believed to be the best representation of America's role in WWII.
What is CASABLANCA?
200
During preproduction, the story is referred to as this and may be an idea or outline.
What is property?
200
The total world of the story in which the movie occurs.
What is diegesis?
200
The order in which the plot of Gaspar Noe's IRREVERSIBLE unfolds.
What is reverse?
200
This film won 10 Oscars in 1939 and is Mrs. B's favorite film.
What is GONE WITH THE WIND?
200
We can readily understand how visual narration works by studying these.
What are silent movies?
300
This is the group discussion and development of a treatment or synopsis.
What is a story conference?
300
The things that we see and hear on the screen but that come from outside the world of the story.
What are nondiegetic elements?
300
This film was ranked number one on the Writers Guild of America (West) list of the 101 greatest screenplays.
What is CASABLANCA?
300
He wrote, produced, directed, and starred in CITIZEN KANE.
Who is Orson Welles?
300
The first African American filmmaker.
Who is Oscar Micheaux?
400
The term for a director who is also the screenwriter.
What is an auteur?
400
The type of narration that occurs when a character breaks the "fourth wall."
What is direct-address?
400
This technique was used in BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN to stretch out the plot duration of the famous "Odessa Steps" sequence.
What is editing (montage)?
400
The first studio to put sound on a disc in conjunction with the film.
What is Warner Brothers?
400
The source for the fundamentals of narrative theory that exist even today.
Who is Aristotle?
500
These are professional screenwriters that are hired to review a screenplay and improve it.
What are script doctors?
500
A type of character that is complex and three-dimensional, possessing several traits, sometimes even contradictory ones.
What is round?
500
In Akira Kurosawa's RASHOMON, this is done four times with the same story.
What is told from four different points of view?
500
The most successful radio-to-movie star.
Who is Bing Crosby?
500
The actor who challenged the studios' power regarding actors' contracts in court and permanently changed the contract system.
Who is Olivia DeHavilland?
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