Pop Culture
What 2023 film about a fashion doll became the highest-grossing film of the year, earning over $1 billion worldwide?
Barbie
While camera shots demonstrate different aspects of characters and setting, this cinematic element is specifically used to position the viewer so they understand relationships between characters.
Camera Angles
This type of sound is added in post-production and isn't part of the on-screen action, including voiceover narration, dramatic sound effects, and mood-setting music.
Non-Diegetic Sound
This pig becomes the leader of Animal Farm after the rebellion and is known for his persuasive speeches.
Napoleon
Who is the most streamed artist on Spotify?
The Weeknd
What composition principle suggests dividing your frame into thirds rather than centering everything, particularly useful when filming interviews?
Rule of Thirds
This technique uses staged recreations with actors to illustrate events for which no original footage exists.
Reenactment
The animals adopt these seven rules after the rebellion, which are later reduced to a single commandment.
Seven Commandments
Which artist won Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the 2025 Grammys?
Kendrick Lamar "Not Like Us"
What kind of shot is usually used to show a conversation between two people?
Over the shoulder shot
What type of interview shows the subject speaking on camera without the interviewer visible, making it feel like they're speaking directly to the audience?
Indirect Interview
This propaganda-spreading pig serves as Napoleon's spokesperson and uses rhetorical techniques to manipulate the other animals' understanding of events.
Squealer
Name all of Kim Kardashian’s children’s.
North, Chicago, Saint, Psalm
Which two shots are often confused for each other. What are they and what is the difference between them?
Wide + Long Shot:
Wide shots have a wide angle of view and can be filmed closer, while long shots have a narrow angle of view due to the long lens used from far away.
While documentaries aim to present real events, what 3 key decisions shape the "constructed" nature of the documentary's reality.
What to film, how the event is framed or staged, and editing decisions (selection and omission of detail)
Orwell uses this literary technique throughout the novel, where Animal Farm represents the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalin, making the story operate on both literal and symbolic levels
Allegory
What is Eleven's (Stranger Things) real name?
Jane Ives
What technique combines a zoom and dolly movement in opposite directions to create a disorienting effect, popularized by Hitchcock in Vertigo?
Dolly Zoom
What framework requires filmmakers to minimize harm, obtain consent, and accurately represent context when making documentaries?
Documentary ethics
Which cart-horse serves as the farm's most dedicated worker, whose motto 'I will work harder' ends tragically when he's sold to a glue factory after collapsing from exhaustion?
Boxer