Film exam 1
What do you call music used to connect two different shots?
a bridge
The Academy Ratio is:
a. 1.33: 1
A lap dissolve usually suggests what?
a. a change in setting b. the passage of time BOTH
What is the best term for a transition between shots that causes a jarring or shocking shift in space or time?
a. a jump cut
A transition where a shot seems to be pushed off the screen as it replaced by another shot is called
a. a wipe
Costumes and make-up function as ___________.
a. character highlights
Which alteration did NOT happened in the early nineteenth century in regards to mise-enscène?
a. lighting and technological advances
Usually the action in the __________ is less important than then the action in the ____________.
a. offscreen space; frame
Film produces this illusion of movement because of a delay in human perception called:
a. persistence of vision
In preparing for and performing a role, a Method actor might:
a. research the background of their character b. immerse themselves in the personality of the character c. create emotion by thinking of emotional situations from their own past X d. all of the above X
Stingers are:
a. something that make us aware of the significance of something onscreen
Which of the following is true of film narrators?
a. they can be characters within the film or represent no character at all b. the narration given must truthfully fit the visuals of the film c. narrators do not address the camera X d. all of the above X
Which of the following is NOT a type of lighting?
a. under lighting b. low key lighting c. direction lighting X d. all of the above X
What is the name of the light-weight camera that appeared in the 1950s?
b. Arriflex
Which best describes a section of narrative film that consists of continuous action taking place in a continuous time and in continuous space?
b. a scene
A star ___________.
b. brings accumulated history from previous performances to the role.
Montage is French for ________.
b. editing
Which type of transition changes from dark to light?
b. fade in
A ________ shot is a continuous shot intercut with other shots to form a completed scene
b. master
A _________ usually consists of many brief shots connected thematically
b. montage
The difference between letterboxing and the pan-and-scan process is:
b. pan-and-scan crops off parts of the movie and letterboxing blocks off the top and bottom of the TV frame for a smaller version of the widescreen image
What is editing that shifts back and forth between two or more lines of action called?
b. parallel
Music often assists in characterization by giving certain characters their own _______.
b. sound perspective
A director may use a unknown actor so the viewers aren't distracted by:
b. the actor's previous roles and public lives
The person who creates sound effects that will be added to the film is called a _______.
c. Foley artist
Who produced the first still photograph?
c. Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
What early 1900s style of editing, used famously by Eisenstein, promoted meaningful juxtapositions over standard continuity?
c. Soviet montage
Which of the following describes a movie spectacular?
c. The mise-en-scène shares equal emphasis or outshines the traditional focal points of a movie.
The range or distance before and behind the main focus in which objects remain relatively
c. depth of field
The term diegesis came from Greek, meaning ________?
c. hearing
Which of the following is an editing transition that gradually opens from a small, usually circular, portion of the frame to reveal the entire image?
c. iris
Which of the following devices does NOT aid in establishing spatial continuity?
c. jump cut
Which of the following is NOT a type of prop?
c. metaphorical
Which of the following is not a real aspect ratio?
c. the Italian standard ratio
Which is not a major aspect of mise-en-scène?
c. the director
Which of the following is NOT one of the three dimensions of the film image?
c. the speed of the film
ADR stands for:
d. Automated Dialogue Replacement
A shot may not:
d. both a and c
A __________ is the opposite of a ___________.
d. close up; long shot
An overhead shot is also called a:
d. crane shot
Which two historical trends are associated with the tradition of theatrical mise-en-scènes?
d. expressive mise-en-scène and constructive mise-en-scène
Synchronization refers to:
d. none of the above
What are the elements of mise-en-scène?
d. setting, costumes/make-up, lights and blocking
What does an eye-line match do?
d. shows a shot of the actor pointing or looking offscreen, followed by a shot of what was being looked at
Point of view refers to:
d. the position from which a person, event, or object is seen in the shot
Which of the following is not a way that setting is used in a film:
to reveal lighting
