Chapter 8 Film Quiz

What is the difference between an iris-in and an iris-out?

An iris-in begins with a small circle that expands, while an iris-out gradually closes an image.

A montage sequence is an editing technique that condenses a series of events into a sequence of shots. Which clip illustrates this technique?

Death to the Tinman

he two major approaches to editing are continuity editing and discontinuity editing. Which clip represents discontinuity editing?

Snapshot

The master shot orients the viewer in preparation for the shots that follow. Which clip illustrates a series of shots that includes a master shot?

Snapshot One of the main functions of the master shot is to orient the viewer (pp. 286-87). In this clip, the master shot is the first shot we see, and it orients by demonstrating the spatial relationship between the two characters. See also 305-6.

Why is the axis of action also called the 180-degree system?

There are 180 degrees of space on the chosen side of the axis of action in which the camera may be placed to preserve screen direction.

What editing transition does this clip from Snapshot illustrate?

dissolve

An editor's control of _____________ can determine the pace or rhythm of a movie.

duration

Which type of cut joins a point-of-view shot of a person looking offscreen with a shot of the object of his or her gaze, as found in this clip from Spam-ku?

eyeline match cut

The editing technique in which the screen is broken into multiple frames and images is known as ____________.

split screen

Which clip includes the editing strategy known as shot/reverse shot?

Snapshot this is the only clip that represents shot/reverse shot, an editing strategy that joins together two characters in shots that were not necessarily filmed in the same time or location (though they often are). (pp. 287, 304-5).

A match cut helps create a sense of continuity between shots by matching shot A and shot B in terms of action, graphic content, or eyelines. Which clip provides an example of a match cut?

Two Cars, One Night

In the climactic scene of Bonnie and Clyde (1967), what form of editing is used for the series of shots that extends moments of time just prior to and during the machine-gun fire?

overlapping action

Holding a shot after the peak of the content curve, past the point where the viewer has processed all of the immediately available information, generally makes the viewer feel ____________.

trapped

The editing technique of joining together two shots is called ____________.

cutting

What is the process of selecting, arranging, and assembling the essential components of a movie (visual, sound, and special effects) to tell a story in a unique way?

editing

The French New Wave film Breathless (1960) often violates conventional continuity with what editing technique that calls attention to the movie's construction?

jump cut During a scene of the young lovers Michel and Patricia primping and flirting in the bathroom of Patricia's apartment, the editor cuts five pieces out of one continuous shot, creating five obvious jump cuts

The effect of perceiving spatial continuity between two shots, including two shots filmed at different times in different places, is called ____________.

the Kuleshov effect Kuleshov demonstrated a creative capacity of film editing that editors still use: the juxtaposition of images to create new meaning not present in any single shot by itself (pp. 289-91).