Final

Question 1

True or False: The camera functions as both a recording device and a stylistic device?

Answer 1

True

Question 2

True or False: Classical Hollywood narrative relies heavily on explicit causality.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

True or False: Editing is not considered a visual effect.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Digital motion control systems arrived with:

Answer 4

Star Wars

Question 5

The average separation between our eyes or interocular distance is:

Answer 5

65mm

Question 6

Emigre directors include:

Answer 6

Peter Weir

Question 7

Early short films that focused on everyday life and did not assume a narrative format were called:

Answer 7

Actualities

Auguste and Louis Lumiere 1895

Question 8

In aerial image printing, an image is projected to a:

Answer 8

Focal plane in space

Question 9

This format has emerged as the standard for high-definition DVD

Answer 9

Blu-ray

Question 10

True or False: In digital composting, each pixel is allocated 6 channels.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

True or False: Audiovisual design of a film falls within the domain of the scriptwriter.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

True or False: The Auteurist Theory asserts that films are a medium of personal expression, and filmmakers leave a recognizable stylistic signature on their work.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

True or False: Sundance is considered the key festival for independent cinema.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

This mode of screen reality is most closely associated with technological advancements in film:

Answer 14

Fantasy

Question 15

True or False: Left-wing socio-political criticism is much less common in the U.S. than it is in Europe.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

True or False: A convention has evolved of treating the director of a film as the author.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

True or False: A Major must both produce films and distribute films nationally and internationally.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Judged by box-office receipt, the most popular filmmaker in the world is:

Answer 18

Stephen Spielberg.

Question 19

In digital compositing, the Z-axis refers to:

Answer 19

The depth axis in the image along which objects are arranged.

Question 20

True or False: Before the 1940s there were no African American production companies.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

A disadvantage of using an Optical Printer is

Answer 21

The generational loss of image quality.

Question 22

This mode of screen reality utilizes reportage with interspersed fictional recreations and stylized editing

Answer 22

Visual poetry

Question 23

True or False: Film noir is a clearly defined genre and not a visual style.

Answer 23

False

Question 24

True or False: The relationship between movies and society is explored in Ideological film theory.

Answer 24

True

Question 25

Which of the following is a negative cost?

Answer 25

All of the following: film printing, costumes, director's points

Question 26

In this genre of film the hero represents a perverse version of the American myth of success

Answer 26

Gangster

Question 27

This genre of film attempts to explain why violence is necessary for the preservation of community:

Answer 27

Western

Question 28

True or False: Motion control systems did not become available until the late 1940s.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

In animation, motion perspective is achieved utilizing a

Answer 29

Multiplane camera

Question 30

True or False: The roots of Expressionism are found in the cinema of 1920s Russia

Answer 30

False

Question 31

A small 3D sculpture that forms the basis for subsequent digital animation of a creature is called a

Answer 31

Maquette

Question 32

True or False: In order for a film to be considered a Blockbuster it must utilize considerable ancillary marketing.

Answer 32

True

Question 33

True or False: Social correspondences play a major role in Cognitive Theory.

Answer 33

True

Question 34

True or False: The average cost of a Major film production now hovers upward of $100 million.

Answer 34

True

Question 35

`What 1993 Blockbuster showed the industry the financial and creative potential of digital effects?

Answer 35

Jurassic Park

Question 36

True or False: How a story is told is as important as its content.

Answer 36

True

Question 37

Most traveling matte processes used colored light because it can

Answer 37

Act as a filter to block or transmit light.

Question 38

True or False: Documentary Realism is purely objective form.

Answer 38

False

Question 39

True or False: Profit Participants can expect to receive (their share of) anywhere between 40%-60% of the gross.

Answer 39

False

Question 40

This depends on withholding information from viewers:

Answer 40

Surprise

Question 41

True or False: In the last several decades, independent distributors have released more films than the majors.

Answer 41

True

Question 42

This mode of screen reality utilizes the camera as an instrument of reportage

Answer 42

Documentary Realism

Question 43

True or False: Painting scenery on glass to create complex visual effect shots started in the 1950s.

Answer 43

False

Question 44

According to the Cognitive Theory studies cited in the text, very young children are likely to judge a character as good or bad, depending on

Answer 44

Whether a character looks attractive or ugly

Question 45

This 1915 film established the basic gallery of black stereotypes that Hollywood film would perpetuate for the next 40 years

Answer 45

Birth of a Nation

Question 46

True or False: Surprisingly, women were well represented as directors under the golden age of Hollywood.

Answer 46

False

Question 47

True or False: Ideological conglomeration is most common in the films of Hollywood.

Answer 47

True

Question 48

True or False: The Western as a cultural category predates the cinema category.

Answer 48

True

Question 49

This genre was heavily influenced by German Expressionism using low-key lighting and exaggerated camera angles.

Answer 49

Film Noir

Question 50

True or False: Filmmakers can influence and control a viewer's evaluation of a film.

Answer 50

False