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