Film Titles
The 2014 film directed by Alan Garland.
What is Ex Machina?
One of the "Granddaddies" of African American Cinema, he directed Body and Soul
Who is Oscar Micheaux?
The term for what is captured on film between starting the camera and stopping the camera.
What is a shot?
The camera distance when all you can see is the nose of the dog.
What is an EXTREME CLOSE UP?
A transition in which the lens aperture is closed while filming continues, so that a circle appears to shrink down what is visible until you can't see the subject at all.
What is an iris (in)?
The 1927 film directed by Fritz Lang
What is Metropolis?
A former stage musician who became one of the founding innovators for cinematic special effects.
Who was George Melies?
A special effect in which the negative is run through the camera twice during recording (record, rewind, record) to get two images to appear as one.
What is double exposure?
The name for the camera angle when the camera is positioned to look up at its subject.
What is LOW-ANGLE?
A transition that moves the narrative from one location to another.
What is a CROSS-CUT?
The 1915 film directed by D.W. Griffiths.
What is "Birth of a Nation"?
A 1970s film genre that both depicted and exploited African American issues, designed to attract African American audiences, often depicting hypermasculine male heroes and hypersexualized women.
What is Blaxploitation?
The adjective that describes something that takes place within the world of the film (not in the world of the audience.)
What is diegetic?
The name for camera movement in which the background shifts relative to the subject as the camera approaches the subject.
What is the PUSH IN?
A transition that moves the narrative forward in time, achieved by editing out frames from in between the remaining shots.
What is a JUMP-CUT?
The 1902 film that is arguably the first science fiction film.
What is "A Voyage to the Moon"?
The first woman director, she created what is probably the first narrative film, "The Fairy of the Cabbages"
Who was Alice Guy Blanche?
A special effect that places a mirror at an angle in front of the camera so it reflects a model, and also removing the reflective coating from part of the mirror so it is transparent glass. The camera then records both the reflected model and the live action seen through the glass.
What is the Schufftan process?
The name for the camera movement when the camera (often smoothly, like on rails) travels alongside a moving figure.
What is TRUCKING?
A transition from the main action to a parenthetical aside and then back again.
What is a CUTAWAY?
Oscar Micheaux' cinematic rebuttal to "Birth of a Nation"
What is "Within Our Gates"?
The Czech special effects filmmaker who got his start in puppetry and animation.
Who is Karel Zeman?
A way of thinking that characterizes Asia as technologically hyper-advanced but also intellectually or culturally retrograde, imagining a dystopian future in which a dominant economic East serves as an antagonist to the economic West.
What is Techno-Orientalism?
The name for when the camera's focus shifts from the foreground to the background or vice versa.
What is RACK FOCUS?
A transition in which the audio track begins BEFORE the visual track of the second shot.
What is an L-CUT?