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Editing
Sound
Performance
Filmmakers
Film Trivia
100
The two main approaches to film editing
What are continuity editing (Hollywood) and discontinuity editing (Soviet)
100
This type of sound originates from a source within the film's world
What is diegetic sound
100
This style of acting trains actors to use their own emotions and backgrounds to inform the characters they play
What is method acting
100
Before the 1960s, films were associated not so much with directors but more with these two aspects of cinema
What are genres and actors
100
This 1980 film directed by Stanley Kubric was the first example of the use of the steadicam
What is The Shining
200
The three essential ways of matching one shot to another
What are graphic matching, matching on action, and eye-line matching
200
This type of sound usually connects two scenes by anticipating the action to which it belongs in the next shot
What is a sound bridge (asynchronous sound)
200
The role a star consistently displays in public, created and maintained through publicity
What is a persona
200
The main two assumptions of auteur theory
What is 1) the director is the "author" of the film 2) some directors are better than others
200
This 1941 film directed by Orson Wells was known for pioneering this depth of field technique
What is Citizen Kane
300
This editing technique is used to portray multiple lines of action, occurring in different places, simultaneously
What is parallel editing or cross-cutting
300
These artists create and record sounds in sync with the film
Who are foley artists
300
An attempt by a performer to be appear not to be performing
What is naturalism
300
In the 1960s, the critics and filmmakers from this country began to argue that the director is the primary artistic creator of the film
What is France
300
The first film in film history, directed by the Lumiere Brothers
What is Exiting the Factory (1895)
400
This editing technique assembles shots to condense or expand action, space or time.
What is Hollywood-style Montage
400
The dialogue spoken by an unseen narrator or an onscreen character not seen speaking
What is voice-over narration
400
Hollywood has a long history of perpetuating this negative stereotype of the black mother figure in white homes
What is the mammy / the help
400
These are the three traits of an auteur according to film critique Andrew Sarris
What are technical competence, a signature style, interior meaning
400
This commercially successful director of Transformers is not considered an auteur director
Who is Michael Bay
500
To test the emotional power of editing, Russian theorist Lev Kuleshov took a shot of Russian actor and intercut it with these three objects.
What are a bowl of soup, a coffin, and a little girl.
500
The term used to described non-diegetic music in a film that is composed specifically for the film or taken from existing music
What is the musical score
500
This style of acting emphasises performance techniques that provoke the audience's critical thinking in order to inspire social and political change
What is the distancing effect / Brechtian style acting
500
Name one auteur
Who is ...
500
At the end of Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, Norma Desmond turns to her director and utters this famous line
What is "I'm ready for my close-up Mr. Demille"