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Sound
Editing
Cinematography
Music
Documentaries
100
These are sounds that come from sources not on the screen.
What are Invisible Sounds?
100
A series of shots taking place in one location and edited together makes up one of these.
What is a scene?
100
This shot type is the standard for framing, usually emphasizes relationships or interactions, and is waist-up.
What is a Medium Shot?
100
This is music that the characters can hear and is part of the reality of the story.
What is Diegetic Music?
100
This type of documentary is produced by assembling images from archival sources.
What is a compilation film?
200
This person combines dialogue with other sounds and effects tracks.
What is a Sound Mixer?
200
This type of editing means to consume less screen time than in reality.
What is elliptical editing?
200
This type of shot features less visual information and more emotional identification with characters.
What is a close-up?
200
This is when the rhythm of the music that matches the natural rhythms of the objects on screen.
What is Mickey Mousing?
200
The TV series Survivor, the film Ali starring Will Smith, and Borat would NOT be considered one of these.
What is a documentary?
300
This person monitors sound recordings of dialogue during production.
What is a sound engineer?
300
This editing style alternates between 2 actions taking place at separate locations.
What are Parallel Cuts (or Cross-Cutting)?
300
This camera angle places the camera below looking up at a character, place, or object.
What is a Low-Angle Shot?
300
This type of music is created for a film but is unheard by the characters.
What is non-diegetic music?
300
This type of documentary records events as they happen with minimal interference by a filmmaker.
What is direct or observational cinema?
400
These are sounds which are natural to a scene's environment.
What are ambient sounds?
400
This is a series of images & sounds that without a clear, logical pattern forms a larger visual picture (i.e. the shower scene in Psycho.)
What is a Montage?
400
This POV type lets action unfold without a specific POV; the camera is a sideline observer.
What is Objective POV?
400
This type of music is composed to capture the mood of a scene or an entire film.
What is a generalized score?
400
This is when a documentary filmmaker (or any filmmaker) allows a line of dialogue to continue across a cut.
What is dialogue overlap?
500
This person works with a director to shape an overall consistent SOUNDtrack for a film.
What is a Sound Designer?
500
This editing transition eliminates a strip of insignificant or unnecessary action from a continuous shot.
What is a jump cut?
500
This is a camera set-up that has no camera movement.
What is a Fixed Frame Shot?
500
Of all the music types discussed in class, the film Alien uses this one the least.
What is diegetic music?
500
This type of documentary uses primarily interviews.
What is a "talking heads" documentary?