Deck 8: Cinema

Question 1

The magnitude of a television film relies more heavily on which of the following, as compared to a film made for theater viewing?

A)Long shots
B)Medium shots
C)Close-up shots
D)Cutting within the frame

Answer 1

C

Question 2

In many ways, this type of film uses the techniques of theatre.

A)Narrative film
B)Documentary film
C)Absolute film
D)None of the above

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following creates the interrelationship of details in cinema?

A)Master shots
B)Long shots
C)Bridging shots
D)Establishing shots

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following shots is edited into a scene to cover a brief break in continuity?

A)Master shots
B)Long shots
C)Bridging shots
D)Establishing shots

Question 5

Which of the following is the technique and effect resulting from the use of natural or outdoor lighting and a hand-held camera?

A)Chiaroscuro
B)Cinema verité
C)Cinema concrete
D)Journalism

Question 6

Which of the following is a technique that moves from one image in a shot to another that has a similar shape?

A)Cut
B)Form cut
C)Jump cut
D)Montage

Question 7

How do editing and camera techniques help create a sense of time and story movement in film?

Question 8

This type of film exists solely as movement or form and tends to be very short.

A)Narrative film
B)Documentary film
C)Absolute film
D)None of the above

Question 9

Which of the following describes how a film is recorded?

A)In the order its scenes appear in the final version
B)Beginning with the climax and working backward
C)Beginning with close-ups and moving to cover shots
D)None of the above

Question 10

Which type of film attempts to record actuality using primarily a sociological or journalistic approach?

A)Absolute film
B)Narrative film
C)Documentary film
D)Silent film

Question 11

Which of the following is the basic picture unit of a film?

A)Reel
B)Shot
C)Frame
D)Cut

Question 12

Which of the following terms means the joining together of shots during the editing process?

A)Montage
B)Cutting
C)Persistence of vision
D)Camera viewpoint

Question 13

Which of the following is the term for what is recorded by the camera over a period of time?

A)Cut
B)Shot
C)Dissolve
D)Crosscut

Question 14

Pick three aspects of film production and explain their parts in creating the final
work.

Question 15

Which of the following is a cinema technique similar to third-person narrative in literature?

A)Montage
B)Subjective viewpoint
C)Objective viewpoint
D)Cutting within the frame

Question 16

Examine the director's role in cinema and the auteur theory.

Question 17

Which of the following is a technique that breaks the continuity of time?

A)Cut
B)Form cut
C)Jump cut
D)Montage

Question 18

According to legend, who discovered the optical phenomenon called "persistence of vision"?

A)Aristotle
B)Ptolemy
C)Steven Spielberg
D)D.W.Griffith

Question 19

Explain the role that convention plays in film.

Question 20

Compare and contrast two of the three main film genres.

Question 21

Which of the following is a technique that allows a filmmaker to avoid the editing process?

A)Dissolving
B)Camera movement
C)Pan
D)Cutting within the frame

Question 22

Which of the following is the technique of moving the camera away from or toward the subject?

A)Pan
B)Dolly shot
C)Track shot
D)Tilt shot

Question 23

The director _____ is noted for his film based on the life of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hurst.

A)Orson Welles
B)Ridley Scott
C)Sergei Eisenstein
D)George Lucas

Question 24

Which of the following is the technique developed by silent film comedians to allow them to make direct contact with the audience?

A)Aside
B)Direct address
C)Soliloquy
D)Camera look

Question 25

Which director created The Birth of a Nation?

A)Fernand Léger
B)D.W.Griffith
C)Alfred Hitchcock
D)John Ford

Question 26

Which of the following is the technique of rotating the camera horizontally while keeping it fixed vertically?

A)Pan
B)Dolly shot
C)Track shot
D)Tilt shot

Question 27

Which of the following means the technique of fading out one scene and fading in the next?

A)Wipe
B)Lap dissolve
C)Iris-out
D)Iris-in

Question 28

According to the _____ theory, whoever controls the mise-en-scène of a film is its true author.

A)actor
B)auteur
C)anterior
D)attaché

Question 29

In cinema, the _____ has the function of converting the mise-en-scène from three-dimensional to two-dimensional space.

A)actor
B)editor
C)director
D)set designer

Question 30

Which of the following is the technique of keeping images in the background and foreground in equal focus?

A)Depth of focus
B)Rack focus
C)Differential focus
D)Omnifocus