COM300 FINAL
The individual who supervises the design of a film's visual environments is called the
Production Designer
Recording sound effects live in a sound studio while watching a film being projected is called
foley technique
A very important part of continuity editing is understanding that viewers
Make associations between adjacent shots
This term refers to all the elements placed before the camera to be filmed.
Mise-en scene
An example of the classical Hollywood narrative is
the searchers
Which of the following is not an ancillary market?
us theaters
Film noir is commonly differentiated from neonoir by
use of back and white film
The lens listed with the shortest focal length;
wide angle lens
A visible solid line that pushes one image off the screen and reveals another image is called a
wipe
A rotoscope is
A combo camera-projector that combines live action (real people) with 3-D characters
The code of continuity editing responsible for maintaining consistent screen direction is the
180 degree rule
The best aspect ratio for a Western film that emphasizes open landscapes would be
2.35:1
The process of photographing flat artwork is called
2D animation
The average separation between our eyes, or Interocular Distance is:
65mm
Most travelling matte processes used colored light because it can
Act as a filter to block or transmit light
MAttes are
All of the above - Painted -Digitally produced -Now able to simulate perspective
In order to observe lighting continuity within shots, cinematographers must consider:
All of the above -Actor movement - Camera movement - Fall off
Voice over narration
All of the above -Can provide personal thoughts and feelings -Is used as a "voice of God" -Can provide backstory -Was heavily used in Citizen Kane
The function of color design in cinematography is to
All of the above -convey symbolic meaning -establish narrative organization -convey mood and tone
A camera can move by
All of the above -pan or tilt -dolly or boom -steadicam
Film stocks vary in terms of their sensitivity to:
All of the above -sensitivity of light -amount of grain -contrast levels
Costumes as a design element offer opportunity to
All of the above -Introduce color and spectacle -Furnish details of the film's time period - Provide commentary on characters
The most important consideration(s) in building a well-designed set is/are:
All of the above ' -How characters inhabit the world of the story -How the camera will capture the world of the story -Supporting the thematic and emotional elements of a film
The naturally occurring, generally low level sound produced by an environment is called
Ambient sound
This type of critic might try to find a correlation between Hitchcock's Catholic background and the narrative use of guilt, sin, and crime in his films:
Auteur
ADR is the acronym for
Automated Dialogue Replacement
The advantage of building a set over filming on location is
Control of look
In contemporary Hollywood, the production of blockbuster films is a function of all of the following except
Declining profits from product placements
Because genre films are so rule-bound, too much variation from their respective formulas can produce
Deviant plot structures
The process of balancing color and adjusting other image elements after principle shooting is called:
Digital grading
Nonlinear editing utilizes what type of footage.
Digitized footage
A shot that begins to disappear and is replaced by another shot before vanishing completely is called a
Dissolve
Diegetic sound is sound that
E: (B and C) -Characters can hear - like dialogue, sound effects, etc. -Music that a character can hear when they turn on some music in the scene
Internal structural time unfolds at a constant rate.
False
Two shots in which subjects appear to be looking at each other, and the space they inhabit appears to be connected is called a(n):
Eyeline Match
Toy Story, Shrek, and Finding Nemo tend to employ 2-D animation with characters created as models inside two-dimensional space.
FALSE
A close up may also function as an establishing shot.
False
A tilt shot produces lateral movement on screen.
False
An eye-level shot is also called a low camera angle
False
Beta movement refers to a dolly or tracking shot.
False
Running time designates the amount of time covered by the narrative.
False
The chief artistic authority in filmmaking is typically the Producer.
False
The composition and recording of the musical score occurs during Production.
False
Scotchlite screens reflect light in a straight path directly to its source and are used in"
Front projection systems
Comparisons of cinema with dreams and dreaming may be found in this theoretical approach:
Ideological
Anti-establishment films would best be analyzed under this theory
Ideological Theory
Reflected sound is sound that primarily
Includes reverberance - caused by hard surface environments
In animation, motion perspective is achieved utilizing a
Multiplane camera
When working with foreground miniatures as set extensions, camera movement;
Must be restricted to avoid revealing the two components as separate
This mechanism was used to photograph and physically combine the elements of a composited effects shot:
Optical printer
This mode of screen reality lacks overly pictorial, expressive interventions in the visual style
Ordinary Fictional Realism
This theory focuses on the pleasure viewers derive from watching cinema
Psychoanalytical Theory
Perhaps the most commonly used visual effect tool of the Hollywood era was:
Rear screen projection
In 1937 this feature length animated film ushered in the golden age of 2D animation:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Digital motion control systems arrived with: Correct!
Star Wars
Since film is essentially a 3D medium, a better term for a 3D movie is:
Stereoscopic cinema
The amount of time covered by the narrative of a film is referred to as
Story time
A photograph blown up to huge proportions, mounted on a translucent screen and then lit from behind is called a
TRanslite
Which of the following lenses will produce a very small angle of view
Telephoto
Creating key frames involves
The animator changing the characters' positions by creating points where they have substantial movement and the computer fills in all intervening frames of motion.
Film structure refers to
The audio visuals design of a film
In digital compositing, the Z-axis refers to:
The depth axis in the image along which objects are arranged
Meaning is not in the film, but is formed by the interaction of the film's audiovisual and narrative design with
The viewer's own perceptual and social experience
The problems studios face with falling box office returns were highlighted by a 2005 poll which found that
Three fourths of adults prefer watching movies at home
Camera position refers to the distance between subject and the camera.
True
Directing styles vary greatly from extremely collaborative to very autocratic.
True
Film simulates an illusion of 3 dimensional space.
True
Letterboxing is a method of formatting a widescreen film for video release.
True
The highly specialized art of framing in film is also referred to as composition.
True
The hiring of cast and crew typically occurs during Preproduction.
True
A low angle shot
Typically makes the subject in the frame seem more powerful
Stop motion animation involves
Using digital characters and posing them, exposing a frame of a film, then reposing and exposing another frame
The Production Designer is responsible for
Visualizing a film's look, sketching it and breaking down the design budget
According to cognitive theory studies cited in the text, very young children are likely to judge a character as good or bad, depending on
Whether a character looks attractive or ugly.
This lens has a variable focal length
Zoom lens
Motion parallax, or motion perspective is associated with
a moving camera
To establish continuity of time or space through sound, a filmmaker could employ
a sound bridge
The function of a musical score for film is to
all of above - Set time and place - Add emotional meaning -Create continuity
Continuity in editing applies to
all of the above -Spatial properties -Temporal properties -Movement
Ancillary Marketing includes
all the above -Television -Toys -Video Games
Which of the following is a Negative Cost?
all the above -costumes -Director's points -Film Printing
In this tradition, narrative is treated as a problem, as something to be refuted or attacked
antinarrative
The 'second-in-command' who oversees the translation of design sketches into built sets is called
art director
The light used to separate a character from their surroundings is called a
back light
This theory stresses the ethical contract between a filmmaker and an audience
bazinian realism
Gray scale values measure this attribute of color:
brightness
Projecting a matte onto a 3D wire frame is called:
camera mapping
This camera angle is often used to make the world look off-kilter or to express a character's anxiety or disorientation.
canted
Selecting the film stock used for a project is primarily the responsibility of the
cinematographer
This theory focuses on how viewers derive meaning from film
cognitive theory
An agreement shared by the filmmaker and audience about what will be valid and acceptable in a film is referred to as
convention
Rules about what can happen within a given genre are called
conventions
The 2 relevant cues to created stereoscopic cinema are biopic disparity and:
convergence
The most common use of color cinematography is to
convey psychological mood and emotional tone
Leitmotifs fulfill this basic function of movie music.
creating continuity
Parallel action (editing) is achieved by utilizing this technique
cross cut
One especially common form of parallel editing where the editor goes back and forth between two or more lines of action is called
cross-cutting
The most commonly used editing transition is the
cut
The chief artistic authority of a film production generally resides with the
director
In a sound hierarchy, filmmakers generally consider this type of sound to be the most important of the sound elements in a scene:
dialogue
Optical Printers were replaced by:
digital composites
Sound which conveys little environmental information is
direct sound
Time-Warner, which owns Warner Bros., operates a series of different leisure-time businesses. This feature of Time-Warner is known as
diversification
This mode of screen reality utilizes the camera as an instrument of reportage
documentary realism
Feminist criticism emphasizes all of these except for:
emphasizing a film's particular visual design or genre conventions in ways that go beyond gender issues
The Searchers features this principle of plot construction.
explicit casuality
This mode of screen reality most heavily influenced the 1930's Horror films of Hollywood
expressionism
The editing transition associated with the greatest change in time or place in the story is the
fade
A long take is always a sequence shot.
false
All of the dialogue we hear when watching a contemporary film is captured in the Production Track.
false
Documentary Realism is a purely objective form.
false
Fast fall-off and high contrast are typical of Soft Lighting.
false
In linear editing, film is digitized making the editing process easier and faster.
false
Majors utilize Limited Release Markets for their productions.
false
Profit Participants can expect to receive (their share of) anywhere between 40%-60% of the gross.
false
Realistic sounds are sounds that are invented and have no real counterpart is actual life but bond with images on the screen - like laser guns and air motorcyles
false
Synthetic sounds are sounds that match the properties of a real source.
false
The Domestic Theatrical Market is the largest part of the Majors total box office earnings.
false
The visual environment of a film is designed by the Set Decorator. You Answered
false
There is only one mode of screen reality.
false
Voyeurism is about how films transport us and can take us on magnificent voyages through films.
false
This mode of screen reality is most closely associated with technological advancements in film
fantasy
The direct, live recording of sound effects, performed by an artist in a sound studio, is called:
foley
Using informational cues about depth and distance and exaggerating these to convey on the small scale of a miniature model an impression of greater size and distance is called:
forced perspective
Montage editing is often used to
fragment space and time
In this type of film, the laws of narrative organization are extremely clear and are well- understood by the audience.
genre film
A film that has frame bars that mask the top and bottom of images are referred to as
hard matted
A low key lighting design will feature
high contrast
Soft light is defined by
high diffusion
The label "red" designates this aspect of color
hue
Which of these is NOT a feature of the Classical Hollywood Narrative?
implicit casuality
The label "Hitchcock," used to describe the characteristics of a body of films, designates a/an
implied author
The Steadicam is different from a hand held camera in that it:
is not fixed in one space
In the mid-1970s, the arrival of blockbuster filmmaking was announced by Star Wars and by
jaws
An abrupt break in the continuity of action by omitting portions of ongoing action is called a
jump cut
The primary source of light in three-point lighting is
key light
Cognitive theory argues that a schema allows an audience to:
make immediate interpretive responses to visual and audio cues in film
A small 3D sculpture that forms the basis for subsequent digital animation of a creature is called a:
maquette
To facilitate continuity editing, the first shot of a scene that is filmed is generally the
master shot
A dark or opaque area that blocks light from a film negative and prevents an image from being formed or exposed there is called a:
matte
A special painting added into a shot to represent a background or setting is a
matte painting
This is Spinal Tap falls into the mode of
mockumentary
A single scene composed of a rapid series of shots is called a:
montage
When left-eye and right-eye images are crossed in front of the screen, it results in:
negative parallax
The virtual camera has revolutionized 3D animation by:
offering all the cinematic techniques of live-action films
A design that utilizes light to dramatically emphasize visual values is referred to as
pictorial lighting
This term designates the way that narrative events are sequenced in a given film.
plot
Changing the lens' focal plane within a shot is called:
rack focusing
Often a Production Designer will make trips to scout locations for shooting. These trips are called
recces
Spaces typically possess imperceptible sounds that should be recorded for films, referred to as
room tone
The strength of a color is referred to as
saturation
An aperture mask within the projector that covers the top and bottom of an image is called:
soft matting
The acoustic area covered by speaker placement is called the
sound field
To convey the properties of physical space through sound, a filmmaker would employ:
sound perspective
The first stage in the production of movie music is
spotting
The person who consults the director about orchestration of binocular space in a film is called a:
stereographer
To suggest first-person point-of-view, a filmmaker might use a
subjective shot
When a filmmaker wishes to suggest a character's literal point of view, s/he may use a(n)
subjective shot
Motion picture film uses this principle of color mixing
subtractive
A popular widescreen format that accommodates a variety of (viewing) aspect ratios is:
super 35
This depends upon withholding information from viewers
surprise
Auteur theory tends to ignore
that filmmaking is a collaborative venture.
An example of a match cut is when
the body position and/or movement of actors are the same between two shots cut together
In digital compositing, the Alpha channel specifies:
the channel's transparency
An example of a shot-reverse-shot sequence is when
the editor cuts over-the-shoulder back and forth shots between two characters talking
In order to produce no motion perspective, a Nodal Tripod pivots or tilts around:
the optical center of the lens
The genre most tied to the theme and mythology of American experience and identity is:
the western
A Jurassic Park T-shirt is an example of a product
tie-in
In 1990, according to The Center for the Study of Commercialism, the film with the highest number of product placements was
total recall
200 or more tracks of sound elements is not uncommon in today's film.
true
A Snorkel Lens is often used to film in miniatures because of its maneuverability.
true
A light source that is visible in the frame and actually works for the exposure of the film is referred to as a Practical.
true
A production designer must consult with the lighting designer of a film.
true
Auteurist theory asserts that films are a medium of personal expression, and filmmakers leave a recognizable stylistic signature on their work.
true
Blaxpoitation films were films made by (and featured) black people, and were condemned by civil rights groups because they focused on crime, violence, and drugs.
true
Film sound helps define both cinematic space and time.
true
In order to achieve the image of Superman flying through the desert, a male matte was composited with a female matte.
true
In the last several decades, independent distributors have released more films than the majors.
true
Irises and wipes are transitional devices that are now considered archaic.
true
Knowing that when a cowboy walks into a saloon, he will likely order whiskey, but at a campfire, he will likely drink coffee, is considered a schema.
true
Movie music emphasizes emotional effects most often by direct symbolization.
true
Scoring a film with pop music to cross market is now an established feature in the industry.
true
The Majors fund only 10-15 film productions per year.
true
The Schufftan process allows actors and a miniature model or painted scenery to be filmed simultaneously.
true
The initial attempt to formulate the basic features of how a film will look is referred to as Previsualization.
true
The theory that bloodshed and violence on screen may offer viewers intense aesthetic pleasure falls under the Psychoanalytical model.
true
Tromp l'oeil techniques are designed to fool the eye into seeing three dimensions on a flat surface and were first utilized by Renaissance painters.
true
Voice-over narration is strongly associated with certain film genres, like film noir.
true
are really only 6 Majors (film studios) in the industry.
true