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The major American city that Bill, Abby, and Linda leave in Days of Heaven (1978).
What is Chicago?
Editing strategies that help ensure narrative continuity are collectively called.
What is continuity editing?
Linking shots with close graphic similarities.
What is a graphic match cut?
Continuing a line of dialogue over cuts during shot/reverse shot.
What is a dialogue overlap?
Anything that appears in the film frame is part of a films___________________
What is mise-en-scene?
The line that Harry Caul uncovers in the tape recording that leads to his suspicion of murder.
What is "He'd kills us if got the chance?"
An edit where one image fading out is overlapped with an image fading in.
What is a dissolve?
A filmmaking technique that compresses time and narrative by removing unnecessary, mundane actions, allowing a story to jump from one significant moment to the next.
What is elliptical editing?
The sound category that musical scores fall into.
What is non-diegetic sound?
The name of the device that Edison created for individual viewing of moving pictures.
What is Kinetoscope?
This 1927 film is credited as the first commercially successful feature sound film.
What is the Jazz Singer?
Carries a single movement across two or more shots.
What is match on action?
The filmmaker and theorist who conducted an experiment to show the power of shot-to-shot relations and editing.
Who is Lev Kuleshov?
Off screen sound that is part of the narrative falls into this kind of sound category.
What is diegetic?
The animal that Eadweard Muybridge captured the motion of in his famous experiment that led to moving pictures.
What is a horse?
In Rear Window (1954), the item that Lisa goes into Thorwald's home to acquire for evidence.
What is a wedding ring?
This technique ensures consistent screen direction across cuts.
What is the 180 degree system?
The type of montage demonstrated in the scene with Alexander Kerensky and peacock from Eisenstein's film October (1927).
What is intellectual montage?
Actors repeat their lines while watching the footage in “looped playback.”
What is ADR (automated dialogue recording)?
A shot where there is significant distance that separates the planes, so the foreground plane is quite large and the background plane is quite distant is called_______________.
What is deep-space composition?
What percentage of films produced by Hollywood studios had sound in 1929?
What is 75%?
A continuity technique that compresses a lengthy series of actions into a few moments.
What is montage?
Name one of the three elements required for the advent of "classical cinema."
What are narrative logic, continuity editing, and spatial and temporal construction?
What is synchronization technology, amplifications systems, recording technology?
Name one element of sound quality.
What are Loudness/Volume, Timbre, Pitch?