Camera Moovin'
Camera Groovin'
Camera Groovin'
Ya Heard?!?
Chop, Chop
Watch Me
Much Meez, So Scene. Wow.
100
When the camera pivots on a vertical axis, like turning your head.
What is a pan?
100
When a sound originates within a film's story world.
What is diegetic sound?
100
When a film cuts to a shot of something that isn't from its story world.
What is a nondiegetic insert?
100
The editing technique used to suture together most of these scenes from On the Town (1949) and the camera position in front of the Statue of Liberty.
What is a dissolve and
What is a low angle?
100
The best descriptor of the 'look' of this scene from Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009).
What is a warm color design?
OR
What is monochromatic color design?
200
The camera distance in this shot from Daughters of the Dust (1991).
What is a medium close-up (MCU)?
200
A sound occurs, but the source of it is not revealed until 20 minutes later.
What is nonsimultaneous sound?
OR
What is sonic flashforward?
200
The pattern of shots that occurs while the Priest (in cream/white) holds a gun to Eddie's head in this clip from Superfly (2018).
What is shot/reverse shot?
200
The cinematographic shift that occurs when one of the aunties asks, "Who is that?" and again when Rachel sees the princess in this clip from Crazy Rich Asians (2018).
What is rack focus?
200
The best way to describe the composition of this frame from The Good Place (2016-2020).
What is symmetrical?
300
The first camera movement in this clip from Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005).
What is a crane shot? (Crane up)
300
The piano music used in this clip from About Last Night (2014), considered spatially.
What is nondiegetic sound?
300
The term for the dominant pattern of editing in this scene from Mr. Robot (2015-2019).
What is an eyeline match?
300
In this clip from Pirates of the Caribbean (2003),
1. The camera angles used to introduce the Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) character.
2. The pattern of editing used to show the hanging skeletons.
3. The camera movement used to show everyone at the dock staring at Jack Sparrow as he enters the harbor.
1. What are low angle shots?
2. What are eyeline matches?
3. What is a tracking shot? (track left)
300
The three components to 3-point lighting.
What are: 1. key light 2. fill light 3. back light?
400
The first major camera movement in this clip from Men in Black (1997).
What is a dolly shot? (Dolly back)
400
The sound technique that describes the function of Woody's lines in the following clip from Toy Story (1995):
What is dialogue overlap?
400
The editing pattern in this scene from Dynasty (2017- ).
What is a montage?
OR
What is elliptical editing?
400
The two types of sound and the two editing techniques used in this clip from Scandal (2012-2018):
What are external diegetic + nondiegetic sound and
What are shot/reverse shot + wipe?
400
Constantin Stanislavski's acting technique.
Method Acting
500
The lens used to shoot this frame from The Graduate (1967).
What is a telephoto (or long-focal-length) lens?
500
The function of the alarm clock in this clip from The Matrix (1999).
What is a sound bridge (J-Cut)?
500
When a film cuts from one shot to a second, in which either the foreground or the background has changed slightly, suggesting a small ellipsis of time between the two shots.
What is a jumpcut?
500
All the major camera movements & directions and edits, in order, in this clip from Casablanca (1942):
What are:
Cut
Tilt down
Track/Dolly forward
(Slight pan left)
Cut
Track/Dolly left
Track/Dolly forward
Cut
and Pan left?
500
The quality of light in this shot from The Maltese Falcon (1941).
What is hard lighting?