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Which of the following are not methods most Hollywood directors use to choose their projects?

simply choose actors and improvise until something comes together directors are not responsible for choosing which stories to make into films

Which of the following are not factors that contributed to the decline of the Hollywood studio system?

the Vietnam War the Internet

Focus Features is a subsidiary of Comcast/NBCUniversal. Which classification best describes Focus Features?

Contemporary Hollywood independant

Page 39511.1. Explain the key technological milestones that laid the foundation for the invention of the movies. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Amirpour, 2014) was shot in a format in which the camera creates its images through a numbered system of pixels. What is the term for this type of medium?

Digital Technology

Which of the following are true of the classical studio system (early- to mid-twentieth century)

Everyone working on a movie is an employee of the studio. Studios are independent entities. Directors and actors are under long-term contract.

The central-producer system of filmmaking was focused on creating a small number of high-quality, artistically challenging films

False

What was typically the responsibility of the "New York office" for most classical Hollywood studios?

Financial Oversight

which are true of today's movie studios?

Independent producers make movies within the studio corporate structure. Directors and actors are freelance. Studios are part of large corporate conglomerates.

which are attributes of the independent system?

It secured independent financing to produce a movie. It made one film at a time. The director was given considerable creative control over the movies. It rented facilities and equipment. Movies were made under the supervision of a single producer unaffiliated with a studio.

Which of the following are attributes of the studio system?

It was organized like a movie factory. It controlled every step of the movie market. A powerful executive exerted control over creative decisions. Everyone was an employee of the studio.

What was the Studio Basic Agreement?

The foundation for collective bargaining in the film industry.

Who were the movie moguls?

The most powerful producers of the Hollywood golden age.

What actors' labor union was founded in 1933?

The screens actors guild

The preproduction process of filmmaking typically takes at least a year.

True

There is no standard for announcing box-office revenue in the United States.

True

Which of the following are factors that contributed to the decline of the Hollywood studio system?

World War II influence of the U.S. government increased power for creative personnel television obsolescence of studio producers, as a result of delegation reorganization of management

Which of the following are methods most Hollywood directors use to choose their projects?

develop an idea of their own buy the rights to a successful novel buy a pitch from a professional screenwriter

In what phase of film production are dailies created?

production

Which of the following are similarities between film and digital movie making

quality of images use of light to produce images use of lenses to capture images images are made up tiny bits of information


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