The Film Experience Final

Which of the following is NOT a way in which sound volume shapes an audience's interpretation of a scene?

Medium loudness may suggest something important

Which of the following is an element that the film editor does NOT manipulate?

Mise-en-scène

According to the textbook, what is the approximate average total cost to produce and market a Hollywood film today?

$100 million

What is the largest format of film stock?

IMAX

Which of the following is NOT a function of silence?

It may help an audience anticipate what might happen next in the plot

How does a film editor typically fulfill his or her responsibilities for the spatial relationships between shots?

By placing shots together so that the sense of the overall space suggested on screen shifts and expands

How does an editor control the rhythm of a film?

By varying the duration of the shots in relation to one another and thus controlling their speed and accents

An extra is...

a nonspeaking or crowd role that receives no screen credit

One camera position and everything associated with it is called...

a setup

In traditional film production, the cinematographer controls the photographic image by advising on all of the following EXCEPT...

actors' performances

The Stanislavsky system of acting trained students to...

bring their own experiences and feelings to their roles

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of great screen acting?

disunity

Most film sounds are constructed...

during postproduction

The three phases of postproduction include...

editing, preparing the final print, bringing the film to the public

When an extreme long shot shows a wide view of a location and provides some background information, it is also known as an...

establishing shot

Although the director's vision shapes a movie's mise-en-scène, the cinematographer must make decisions about...

how to photograph the movie

Depth of field refers to the distances in front of the camera and its lens in which the subjects are...

in apparent sharp focus

The main source of illumination used in three-point lighting is the...

key light

The video image consists of pixels, which is short for...

picture elements

A film stock's speed refers to its...

sensitivity to light

The preproduction phase may include all of the following EXCEPT...

shooting footage

This is the basic building block of a movie

shot

During production, the crew most closely associated with the camera consists of...

the camera operator and the first and second AC

The compositional principle that divides the frame horizontally and vertically in order to visualize the height, width, and depth of cinematic space is called...

the rule of thirds

The Method (or Method acting) did not make a major impact on Hollywood until the 1950s because...

the studios were reliant on the star system and were not interested in the process of acting

When actors are repeatedly given particular kinds of roles based on their looks rather than their talent or experience, they are...

typecast

If you are a cinematographer and the director asks you to photograph just the lips of an actor, what type of shot is she asking for?

extreme close-up

A personality actor...

takes his or her personae from role to role

What is the difference between diegetic and nondiegetic sound?

Diegetic sound originates from a source within a film's world; nondiegetic sound comes from outside that world

All of the following statements about digital technology are correct EXCEPT...

Digital pixels bear a physical relationship to the original input

Which of the following is one of the challenges movie actors confront?

Interruptions by camera, lighting, and sound adjustments

What are the fundamental building blocks of continuity editing?

Master shots and the 180-degree system

When used in continuity editing, shots in a shot/reverse shot sequence are often framed in what way?

Over the characters' shoulders

Which of the following is NOT a phase of sound production?

Scoring

How do environmental sounds typically function in a film?

They provide information about a film's setting and action

Why did the first screen actors use exaggerated gestures, emphatic expressions, and the mouthing of words to bring their characters to life?

They were adapting the acting style of 19th-century theater

Which of the following is NOT an effect of editing?

To communicate information about a character merely by facial reactions

What is the primary function of a script supervisor?

To record details of continuity from shot to shot

Why is ADR used?

To rerecord sound originally recorded on the set

What is the basic building block of film editing?

The shot

Which of the following is most likely to draw an audience to a movie?

A famous actor

Which of the following does NOT describe what happens during the process of sound mixing?

Dialogue is recorded

Which of the following constitutes a cinematic ellipsis?

A cut between a shot of woman contemplating diving off the high-dive board and a shot of her emerging from the water

Which of the following are excluded from a film's soundtrack?

A director's rehearsal notes

What is "montage" in the Hollywood sense of the word?

A sequence of shots, often with superimpositions and optical effects, that shows a condensed series of events

With regard to sound, what is the crucial difference between sound and silent films?

A sound film can emphasize silence, but a silent film has no option

What are the three machines that bring images to the screen in three distinct stages?

Camera, processor, projector

During the production phase, the principal activities of a director include all of the following EXCEPT...

Developing a marketing strategy

Which of the following best characterizes a naturalistic style performance?

The behavior is believable and recognizable

What is parallel editing?

The cutting together of two or more lines of action that occur simultaneously at different locations