Narratives
Working Behind the Scenes
Actors & Producers
Screenwriting
Directors
The 3 Phases of Filmmaking
Genres & International Film Styles
100

The film Human Capital features this type of narrative.

What is a formalistic narrative?

100

This person oversees camera set-ups.

What is a Director of Photography or Cinematographer?

100

Not something that a director typically does, this is the primary role of a producer.

What is finance a film?

100

This is a film idea typically presented at a studio meeting.

What is a pitch?

100

He directed Jaws.

Who is Steven Spielberg?

100

During this phase a film is scored.

What is post-production?

100

Fast-talking witty banter, mistaken identities, and slapstick are a part of this genre.

What is the Screwball Comedy?

200

This is the most intense part of a classical Hollywood narrative.

What is the climax?

200

This person makes sure there is continuity between shots.

What is a Script Supervisor?

200

Producers will typically hire one of these to establish the overall "vision" of a film.

What is a director?

200

This is the narrative that actually happens in a film.

What is the plot?

200

Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement directed this film shown in class.

What is What We Do in the Shadows?

200

Sound is monitored during this phase.

What is production?

200

What's Up Doc? would be an example of this genre.

What is a Screwball Comedy?

300

These types of films typically don't tell a story and are often not written out in advance.

What is an Avant Garde film?

300

A great entry level job, this person takes care of actors, directors and other on-set needs.

What is a Production Assistant?

300

Lillian Gish and Lionel Barrymore were actors from which period in film history?

What is the silent era or 1910s-1920s?

300

This term refers to a primary character with a goal.

What is a protagonist?

300

Tom DiCillo directed this film.

What is Living in Oblivion?

300

A shooting schedule is established during this phase.

What is pre-production?

300

This genre was popular in the 1940s and 50s and featured crime, cities, and femme fatales.

What is Film Noir?

400

These types of narratives are typically favored by directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan who tend to scramble chronology.

What is a formalistic narrative?

400

Such as Wanda in Living in Oblivion, this person keeps track of the shooting schedule.

What is an Assistant Director?

400

The Hollywood "star system" featuring such actors as Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart existed primarily in these two decades.

What are the 1930s and 40s?

400

This is the underlying central concern or message of a film.

What is the theme?

400

Peter Bogdanovich directed this film screened in class.

What is What's Up Doc?

400

Special effects are typically created during this phase.

What is post-production?

400

This film movement explored life after World War 2 in a European country.

What is Italian Neorealism?

500

This is the correct order of a classical Hollywood narrative.

What is exposition, conflicts (rising action), climax, resolution?

500

This person is a head electrician supervising lighting on a film set

What is a gaffer?

500

He directed and produced a film where the "actor" slept for 5+ hours.

Who is Andy Warhol?

500

This is the average length of a screenplay.

What is 110 pages?

500

He directed Human Capital.

Who is Paolo Virzi?

500

Storyboards are created during this phase.

What is pre-production?

500

This style of filmmaking includes ambiguous endings and an almost sloppy visual look.

What is French New Wave?