Film Exam 1

For how long were Motion Pictures popular before they were considered worthy of serious study?

50 years

One of the most common editing techniques designed to hide the instantaneous and potentially jarring shift from one camera viewpoint to another is ______?

Cutting on action

Which type of shot allows viewers to literally look up at characters as when we see figures on a stage or a mounted statue?

Low angle shot

what does fade out usually convey when used in a narrative film

a passage of time between scenes

In order to exploit cinema capacity for transporting audiences into the world to the story the commercial film story stresses ______?

a polished continuity of lighting, performance, costume, makeup, and movement

What does a low-angle shot usually convey when used in a narrative film?

a sense of power and authority

The conventions of cinematic language represent a sort of _____ between the filmmaker and the audience about the mediating element between them: the shot.

agreement

Audience's expectations with regards to reality?

change across time and cultures

Considering a character's emotion is an element of which type of analysis?

character analysis/ literary analysis

The French filmmakers who established the realest direction of Cinema were _____ while the French filmmakers who established the anti-realistic direction of Cinema were _____?

the Lumière brothers; George Méliès

Every Element of a movie is placed purposefully to communicate meaning to the viewer. Examining these Visual and audio elements to interpret their meanings is essential to _____ analysis?

formal

If a movie makes extensive use of especially dramatic acting, lighting, or costumes that call attention to themselves rather than being subtle or unattrusive the style is _____?

formalism and antirealism

alternative approaches to film analysis search beneath a movie's form and content in order to expose___

implicit and hidden meanings that inform our understanding of cinema's function within popular culture

Why is light the essential ingredient in the creation and consumption of motion pictures?

it is a key formal element to create mood, reveal character, and convey meaning.

One system of film mise-en-scène involves ______.

lighting, setting, props, costumes, makeup

antirealism is defined as an interest in or concern for

the abstract, speculative, or fantastic

which type of film strives for objective observed reality

realism

just as explicit and implicit meanings need not pertain to the movie as a whole, not all implicit meanings are

relevant

unlike photography and painting, films are constructed from individual

shots

Usually the speed of action stays consistent within a single shot when the action varies in a shot such as speeding up and then slowing down. This is known as ______?

speed ramping

which of the following is a way in which movies can manipulate time

speed ramping

In the collaborative art of movie making whose role is basically that of the coordinating lead artist?

the director's role

in hollywood, producers and screenwriters assume audiences decide whether they like or dislike a movie in

the first ten minutes

beyond breaking down a movie to identify the tools and techniques that compose it, film analysis is also primarily concerned with

the function and the potential effect of its combined tools and techniques

As a movie opens, viewers have expectations about the order of events such as what actions will lead to other actions. These expectations concern _______

the story's outcome

Content is defined as ______ and form is defined as _____.

the subject of an artwork; the means by which that subject is expressed

The invisibility of meaning in any given shot or moment of a film is largely due to ____?

their rapidly and constantly changing images not giving the viewer time to contemplate them.

Why is cultural invisibility not always a calculated decision on the part of filmmakers?

they are products of the same society inhabited by their intended audience

why do cinematic conventions represent a certain agreement between the filmmaker and audience

they represent a common, shared cinematic language that can be both used for familiar purposes and reimagines for newer ones

What is Freeze Frame?

when a film suddenly freezes on a single, still frame.

To what does the term cinematic language refer?

The systems, methods or conventions, by which the movies communicate with the viewer

In a movie's early scene, a character shows a gun to another character, viewers will be surprised if that gun is not shown again. This illustrates that the movie is shaped by ___

Anton Chekhov's gun

When females only have a conversation with males or about men are set to fail the ____ test

Bechdel

In a movie, an actor stops talking to another character and turns to face the audience addressing viewers directly. This is an example of ______?

Breaking the fourth wall, direct address, an aside

How is it that movies appear to be moving?

By creating a quick succession of 24 individual still photographs per second.

Which type of analysis examines the role of economic class in a movie such as a character's wealth or poverty?

Character analysis

The joining together of discrete shots is called _____?

Editing

Usually each of the systems that becomes the complex synthesis of a movie is ____?

Highly organized and deliberately assembled

Which of the following is true of a movie's implicit meaning?

Implicit meaning relates to the meaning of a scene

One of the unique properties of film that distignuish it from any other medium is its capacity to ___?

Isolate details and juxtapose images within and between shots

As opposed to film or cinema the term "movies" is often applied to _____?

Motion pictures that entertain the masses at the multiplex.

How do movies use the elements of time and space?

Movies manipulate both time and space

Which of the following helped inspire the first motion pictures?

The realist impulse of the visual arts.

One way of thinking about implicit meaning is understanding it as a movie's _____?

Overall message or point

Once a narrative begins expectations make viewers ask questions about ____?

The story's outcome

What is meant by cinematic language?

The accepted systems, methods, or conventions by which the movies communicate with the viewer.

What is the definition of verisimilitude?

The appearance of being true, or resembling reality

Which of the following is an example of cinematic manipulation of space?

The clever editing of sequence to make it appear, as of our shots were taken in the same room, when really they were not

Which of the following is an example of cinematic manipulation of time?

The extension of various shots so that a scene's screen duration becomes longer than the purported time of its events.

Techniques such as fade out fade in, and low angle shots communicate meanings by____?

drawing upon the way we automatically interpret visual information in our real lives