Sup Docs?
One of the doc subgenres that categorize 'Bowling for Columbine'.
What are social, political, personal, PBC style with elements of cinema verite?
The name of one movie from film history.
What is 'Horse in Motion', 'Roundhay Garden', 'Arrival of a Train', 'The Great Train Robbery', 'A Trip to the Moon', 'Birth of a Nation', 'Within Our Gates', 'The Cabbage Fairy', 'The Watered Waterer', etc.?
What is the name of our editing software AND audio software. Make sure you distinguish which version of the programs.
Premiere Pro CC and Audition CC
The difference between aperture and shutter.
What is aperture stays at its setting while shutter opens and closes (taking pictures) as we film?
The screenwriting software we use is called this.
Celtx
One example of why documentary filmmakers can use existing footage without paying for it.
What are...? 1. US Copyright's Fair Use Clause 2. Public Domain 3. Royalty Free websites
Name one filmmaker from early film history (before talkies began in 1927) and what they're known for.
Who is Eadweard Muybridge, Alice Guy Blache, D.W. Griffith, Oscar Micheaux, George Melies, The Lumiere Brothers, etc.?
Name 3 types of editing transitions (video or audio).
What are constant gain, constant power, or exponential fade, cross dissolve, film dissolve, dip to black, dip to white, cub spin, etc.?
What ISO does and its maximum.
Boosts light sensitivity (through chemical film processing or a digital sensory chip). 800 max.
INT. MAC LAB - DAY is an example of what type of line in our scripts?
Scene Heading or Slug Line
The difference between direct cinema and cinema verite.
What is the fact that cinema verite may include composed interviews, non-diegetic sounds, and titles throughout the film while direct cinema literally points and shoots what is happening, i.e. it is directly just a series of moving pictures?
As a journalistic film critic, analyze what you like or don't like about Guillermo Del Toro's 'The Devil's Backbone' in terms of cinematography.
- Blue and orange color palette & lighting to express warmth & safety vs. cold, dark, danger
- Shallow depth of field
- Variety of camera angles
This type of sound is the MOST important to record cleanly. Also name the best microphone and set up to record this well.
What is dialogue? Shotgun mic + Zoom (or any sound recording equipment separate from camera).
3 types of lighting set ups and what they mean/their purpose in cinema
3 point
low key
high key
3 reasons it's important to write scripts in a standardized professional format?
1 page per minute; easier for readers to understand; easier for actors to read; easier for producers to estimate time and budget; easier to do a three hole punch in the margins; easier to distinguish scenes; easier to distinguish characters; easier to distinguish dialogue; weeds out those who aren't working hard/makes you look professional!
The names of three famous documentary filmmakers AND at least one tip you've learned from them when it comes to getting strong interviews.
Who are...? 1. Ken Burns 2. Errol Morris 3. Marlon Riggs 4. Michael Moore 5. Ava DuVernay
Tips: Interrotron, don't talk, let people speak for themselves, ask open-ended questions, set the tone using production design for your interview space
As an academic film critic, analyze 'Blackkklansmen' in terms of TWO film theories of choice.
Auteurism, Race, Formalism, Genre, Semiotics, Structuralism...
Name 4 types of positions in a sound crew AND what each does.
What are sound recordist, boom op, foley artist, sfx artist, sound editor, sound mixer, sound designer?
Your goal is to shoot a wide expansive desert scene. Using film language what lenses, filters, lighting, camera settings, cinematography, and production design tips do you suggest? (Hint: must answer each part of this question.)
- 24 mm lens
- ND or UV filter
- Natural lighting with bounce boards to mimic 3 point set up OR high key
- Open aperture, 24 fps, 1/50 shutter speed, lowest ISO setting
- variety of camera angles
- deliberate composition
- deliberate mise en scene
- purposeful color palette: orange
Describe how to format a scene that intercuts two people on a phone
(write on board)
Five subgenres of documentary and what each means.
What is...? 1. Cinema Verite 2. Direct Cinema 3. Experimental Doc 4. Historical Doc 5. Rock Doc 6. Found Footage Doc 7. Investigative Doc 10. PBS Style Doc 11. Essay Film 12. Found 13. Ken Burns Style Doc 14. Errol Morris Style Doc 15. Educational Doc
Identify the following types of theory this stands for & briefly explain each:
GRASP FUNQ FARMS
Genre
Realism
Apparatus
Structuralist
Psychoanalytical
Formalist
Uhh
Neo-Formalist
Queer
Feminist
Auteur
Race
Marxist
Semiotics
You're at the end of your editing. What are the 8 tracks of sound the mixer usually works with?
30 types of camera angles.
(list on white boards)
5 tips for writing professional screenplays.
- active voice
- present tense
- concise action
- separate action lines as much as possible
- not overly flowery, gets to the point
- highly visual