Film Final

The term"avant-garde" literally means__.

"advanced guard"

What year did the production code begin to be enforced?

1934

which of the following artists did not make experimental films?

Buster Keaton

__ is a relatively low-cost technology that has dramatically lowered the barriers to feature filmmaking.

Digital video

is the type of documentary filmmaking that involves the least amount of planning and interaction with the subjects by the filmmakers.

Direct Cinema

Which of the following is true?

Even if a film has one main source, numerous other texts can influence it.

A documentary film is defined as a film?

Intended to be accepted primary as fact

What is true of both a staged play and a film?

Lighting is usually selected with care. Both can use music. Composition can be used expressively in both.

Why does a film adaptation tend to be so different from the literary work it is based on?

Metaphors, similes, and other figurative language are difficult to convey on film. The literary work usually is too long to include all major aspects of it in the film.

How have music videos influenced feature films?

Music videos have become an area of visual experimentation, allowing filmmakers to test techniques before using them in a film.

Documentary films always represent___reality.

Narrative Documentary

Hoop dreams is___.

Narrative Documentary

Which of the following is characterized by a series of unified factual events in one or more settings?

Narrative Documentary

Animation is__.

None of the above (a type of film, a technique for making a film or part of 1, a film genre

What is generally not true of "script doctors"?

Only one screen doctor can work on any given script.

From the late 1940's to the 1980's american films nearly always tend to portray __ as untrustworthy and treacherous.

Russians or Soviets

Which of the following is true of fictional films based on history?

The filmmakers omit or fabricate some events.

Which one of the following statements best describes the relationship between television and film in the 1950s?

There was intense rivalry between the two media.

In the conventional western genre, the protagonist usually is___.

a European American male

The term "Print Generation" refers to __.

a copy of a film or part of one

Experimental films are characterized by__.

a shorter length than commercial films

In transforming a play into a film, filmmakers often _________________.

add characters and scenes

Both a movie palace and an IMAX theater offer moviegoers__.

an escape into a new world

Which of the following is not a type of film??

animation

Which of the following might a documentary film do__?

celebrate its subject, criticize, inform

A hybrid film___.

combines characteristics from 2 or all 3 of the following films categories: fictional, documentary, and experimental

In the U.S. rating system, Nc-17 was originally intended for films that?

contain frank but serious representations of sexual subjects

the viewing experience in an early nickelodeon often included all of the following except__.

decorative theater interiors

Animation may have as its subjects(s)__.

drawings, plasticine objects, frames from some other film

What is an element the writer is not responsible for?

editing

For a low-buget, independent film, which of the following increases the chances for success?

enthusiastic reviews, a creative director, and recognition at a major film festival

David Holzman's Diary includes___.

fictional components, documentary aspects, and experimental characteristics

Documentary filmmakers may___.

film what happened, recreate what happened and film it, film how to make something happen

Knowledge of a film's context__.

helps viewers understand a film more completely

Which of the following is a form of intertextuality?

homage

A documentary film may have as its subject?

human behavior, animal behavior, and plant life

Experiment films are sometimes called___.

impersonal, abstract, and avant-garde films

How might filmmakers help make their films based on history appear historical?

include documentary footage

If a screenplay is written in master-scene format, which of the following will it exclude?

individual shots

Justifiable homicide- which is about the killing of 2 Puerto Rican youths by 2 New York city police detectives and the aftermath.

inform viewers about its subject, entertains viewers with it investigative structure, celebrates some of its human subject

Which of the following was judged taboo under the guidelines of socialist realism?

innovative styles

Experimental films or videos are combined with other visual objects and arts to create___.

installation art

A filmic convention that today typically signifies a change of setting is a__.

lap dissolve

In the 1950's __ were used by the film industry to combat the growing popularity of television.

large, widescreen images

Direct cinema is characterized by__.

location shooting

which of the following techniques is least likely to contribute to and out-of-control, dizzying effect in a documentary film?

long takes

What is not a frequent source for narrative films?

magazine articles

Since the late 1960's documentarians.

make films with longer takes that in pre-1960 documentaries

What is a parody of a documentary film called?

mock documentary

Sophisticated computer software can make something seem to transform into something else on, a process called__.

morphing

Hearts of Darkness: a filmmakers apocalypse is?

narrative documentary film

informative language in a documentary can include__.

narrative, interviews, graveyard headstones

Documentary may be about__.

nature, human behavior, how to do something

Experimental films must have___.

none of the above

From the beginning of the enforcement of the production code until the late 1960s, homosexuality in films was portrayed__.

obliquely or not at all

It is often hard to organize nontraditional films because__.

of different uses of terms, categorizations involve judgement calls, filmmakers creativity outruns classification

What is a storyboard?

one of a series of drawings or photos of each shot of a planned film

Experimental films often explore untraditional means of__.

organization, production, and exhibition

Which of the following is not a traditional use of of film production equipment?

painting directly on the film

___ is animation that shows 3-dimensional subjects moving discontinuously or continuously in ways impossible to show in live action.

pixilation

In early cinema, many fictional films were based on _________.

plays

What is the term for a film that is released after an earlier film and whose action predates the action of the first film?

prequel

Experimental films tend to __a society's dominant ideologies?

questions

Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers is an example of how movies can ________ aspects of television.

satirize

What is the earliest version of a film script?

screenplay

Compared with its screenplay or shooting script, the finished film usually is _____.

shorter, more visual, less reliant on dialogue

The introduction of synchronized soundtracks to filmmaking effectively put an end to which of the following film genres?

slapstick comedy

Web-based animation___.

sometimes recalls early movie serials

which of the following are not usually censored in films?

technological subjects

J.J Murphy's "Print Generation" is about__.

the changes that occur to images as they are copied and recopied, the transitory nature of life, signs of life emerging from chaos then returning chaos

Which of the following was not on of the reasons the Motion Picture Producers and Directors of American Inc. used in supporting the enforcement of the prodmention code?

the entertainment industry functions as a branch of the state in creating good citizens

American filmmakers shied away from controversial subjects in much of the 1950s because of__.

the investigations of the house committee on un-american activities, the jailing of the hollywood ten, the blacklisting of filmmakers accused of being members of the communist party

THX, DTS, and Sony Dynamic Digital refer to__.

theater sound system

Filmmakers may use devices such as__to inform viewers about a film's context.

title card

Documentary films usually___.

use real people instead of actors

Cinema verite involves___.

using lightweight unobtrusive filmmaking equipment

Before the 1960's documentary films?

were made with equipment that was difficult to move around

Chapter 8 does not include a section called?

what techniques are used in documentaries

Location shooting became common place__.

with the development of more mobile camera and sound equipment

Experimental filmmakers__.

work independently of the usual sources for financing, often create films on low budgets, are largely unrestricted by censorship