Hollywood History
The modern film industry originated in this country.
What is France?
Films have to balance these two competing interests.
What are art and commerce?
This type of shot usually focuses on part of, but not all of, the face.
What is an extreme close-up?
This type of color suggests happiness, fantasy, and romance.
What is saturated color?
This element of mise-en-scene establishes where the action takes place.
What is the setting?
These French brothers created the first ever motion picture.
Who are the Lumiere brothers?
How many major film studios existed in Hollywood during its Golden Age?
What is the Big Five?
This kind of shot focuses primarily on the location. The actors are generally very small and unimportant-looking.
What is an extreme long shot?
This type of color suggests sadness, depression, or dystopia.
What is desaturated color?
This element of mise-en-scene uses visual information to inform the viewer about a character and his/her personality.
What is costume?
An independent film is a film made without this.
What is money from a film studio?
What are new names?
This shot is generally used in dialogue scenes and focuses on the person speaking with very little of their scene partner visible.
What is an over-the-shoulder shot?
This kind of sound can be heard by the characters in the story as well as the audience, and includes things like dialogue and sounds from props.
What is diegetic sound?
This style of film attempts to show commonplace, every-day events and situations without manipulation.
What is realism?
This was Georges Melies profession before he became a filmmaker.
What is a magician?
The Golden Age of Hollywood is generally considered to have taken place during these years.
What are the 1930s to the 1950s?
This shot is used to show the action from a particular character's perspective.
What is a POV shot?
This kind of sound cannot be heard by the characters in the story, only by the audience.
What is non-diegetic sound?
This style of film relies heavily on editing and special effects to break the illusion of reality.
What is formalism?
Before sound-recording technology became available, filmmakers used these to depict conversation in a written format.
What are dialogue cards?
Marion Mitchell Morrison is the birth name of this well-known actor.
Who is John Wayne?
What is a high angle?
This kind of lighting is from an Italian word meaning "light and dark."
What is chiaroscuro lighting?
This French phrase literally means "placed on stage" and refers to anything that appears in front of the camera.
What is "mise-en-scene?"