Design
Production Design
Framing
History
Grab Bag
100
The literal meaning of the French phrase "mise-en-scene."
What is staging a scene?
100
This job title is chief among the professionals who design the look of a movie.
What is the production designer?
100
The essential element in drawing the composition of a frame and realizing that arrangement on film.
What is light?
100
The quintessential leading man of the 1950's.
Who is Marlon Brando?
100
The visionary director of SLEEPY HOLLOW.
Who is Tim Burton?
200
It is the combination of elements within this that provides the overall meaning of the shot or scene.
What is the frame?
200
The title production designer used to be called this in the classical Hollywood system.
What is the art director?
200
The use of deep gradations and subtle variations of lights and darks within an image.
What is chiarocscuro?
200
The first actor to be paid according to the amount of profit made by the film.
Who is Jimmy Stewart?
200
The term for the process when the director plans and rehearses the position and movement of the actors and cameras.
What is blocking?
300
Until this decade, actors in almost every kind of film, period or modern, were required to wear wigs.
What is the 1960's?
300
The production designer organizes this through design.
What is narrative?
300
Framing implies this.
What is point of view?
300
The silent film star ostracized for his/her socialist views.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
300
This actor assumed he was the first choice for the Roger Thornhill role in NORTH BY NORTHWEST.
Who is Jimmy Stewart?
400
When Italian neorealism developed.
What is during WWII?
400
The environment in which the narrative takes place.
What is setting?
400
The type of framing used in westerns.
What is open framing?
400
The movie mogul who was instrumental in changing the negative view that studios had of television.
Who is Jack Warner?
400
The only public location in which Hitchcock permitted to film NORTH BY NORTHWEST.
What is The Plaza Hotel?
500
The country in which the most important early development in art direction took place.
What is Germany?
500
The decor of a set - the decorations, furniture, draperies, etc. - is known as this.
What are properties?
500
The two primary elements of composition in movies.
What is framing and kinesis?
500
The studio known for the motto "Dress British; think Yiddish."
What is MCA?
500
The job title that is responsible for many aspects of continuity, including wigs.
What is the script supervisor?
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