Exam Review

Question 1

1. What is the apparent difference between two documentary genre; direct cinema and docudrama?

Answer 1

Docudramas are re-enactments of true and factual events, while direct cinema is the actual recorded event without the subjects knowing a camera is present

Question 2

2. Robert Kenner Oscar nom Food Inc. documentary is said to be a populist albeit practical film that uses the voices of farmers, advocates, and journalists, and focuses on food explaining what is wrong with the corporate controlled food industry. What is the best possible explanation for his docu to be considered populist?

Answer 2

Consonance seeking to represent the interest of regular people (the majority)

Question 3

3. According to Sziga Vertov, “Camera is a machine to seeing” what is the meaning of his cinematic thesis?

Answer 3

Its just a device, not to be blamed

Question 4

4. According to a documentary scholar, Henrik Juel of Rosklide Uni of Denmark, “As a rule of thumb, a film is hardly a film without camera work, cuts or editing, and it is neither a fiction film nor a documentary

Answer 4

Docu is a creative approach

Question 5

5. Kony 2012 film and media campaign, as a tool of the following propaganda device…

Answer 5

ALL OF THEM

Question 6

6. What does the Golden Ratio refer to?

Answer 6

A proportion in the frame

Question 7

7. According to a Hollywood playwright, Ferenc Molnar of Hungarian origin “A derailed streetcar has to be derailed by the rules of Dramaturgy.” Can his rule of thumb in dramaturgy be applicable to docu genre?

Answer 7

Must have meaning…

Question 8

8. The rule of dramaturgy can apply even to contemporary pop music, for instance, JB latest hit, What do you mean? Is this statement true?

Answer 8

Yes

Question 9

9. What does the following list describe in filmmaking, clear exposition of situation, careful prep for future events, unexpected but logical reversals, continuous mounting…. Climax and final resolution?

Answer 9

Dramatic structure

Question 10

10. ____ is the moment of the play at which the main action of the plot begins and thee main complication is introduced”

Answer 10

Point of attack

Question 11

11. What best describes the role of a POV shot?

Answer 11

Put you in the position of that character and make you feel what they are feeling

Question 12

12. what were the main elements of Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips that made his real event based film realistic?

Answer 12

Hand held shaky, human characteristics, perfect timing for silence, etc

Question 13

13. what is the most common cinematographic technique that was employed both in Captain Phillips and Cloverfield?

Answer 13

Shaky handheld camera

Question 14

14. Which cinematic technique does the following def refer to. “it tightly frames a person or an object displaying the most detail, but excluding the broader scene”

Answer 14

Close-up

Question 15

15. After an internationally acclaimed interview with president Nixon, the researcher, James Reston said, “the fist and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies or diminished great, complex ideas, stretched of time; whole careers become reduced to a single snapshot” what was the relevance of showing president Nixon’s cascade of emotions in a close-up?

Answer 15

it displayed his loneliness, self-loathing and defeat

Question 16

16. Upon the first screening of the Lumieres’ Arrical of the Train, the audience was so overwhelmed by the image of the train bearing unpon them that they fled the room in terror. Not only did the French filmmakers recognize the power of illusion, but they also maximized the shock value of the approaching train by mounting the camera as close as possible to the edge of the platform. What was the evident shock value of their short film rooted in?

Answer 16

The fear of the train coming, natural instinct (a distressing emotion around the danger)

Question 17

17. A famous radio broadcast covered the invasion and unstoppable attack of the Martians on Earth causing mass panic in the US was Orson Welles’ adaptation, The War of the Worlds a mockumentary?

Answer 17

Looks like a documentary through the format

Question 18

Q18: Which film fits best the following description: by the use of the deceptive black and white filmstrips, the interviews with celebrities and famous intellectuals attesting the main char’s pseudo-reality as well as through the story line, the direct fabricated a ps. doc in order to typify human nature.

Answer 18

Zelig

Question 19

19. Michael Moore’s film, Sicko is a docuganda, is this statement true?

Answer 19

Yes. Its not misleading, but Its only showing the good side

Question 20

20. Which of the film genre falls to the greatest extent under the following description “it works because of the assumptions and expectation that we as viewers……………

Answer 20

mockumentary

Question 21

21. What elements make a documentary mockumentary?

Answer 21

Fictional events told in a realistic way (paradox slide)

Question 22

22. Mockumentary-like monster movies such as Cloverfield are based mainly on the following:

Answer 22

Post-traumatic 9/11 syndrome & the fear factor

Question 23

23. In the post-9/11 movie, Cloverfield, what is the symbolic meaning and relevance of the monster?

Answer 23

Faceless face of terrorism

Question 24

24. the contemporary television genre of quasi docu-soaps series, for examples, The Newsroom written by Aaron Sorkin gives the feeling of…

Answer 24

(real-time documentary-style) participant, an insider

Question 25

25. Dan Gilroy’s thriller Nightcrawler starring … portrays the everyday practice of crime journalism. Why is the editorial rule, “if it bleeds, it leads,” relevant in this movie?

Answer 25

Worry and fear sell