Final Exam

Question 1

In three sentences, describe three restrictions placed on filmmakers in Iran between 1979 and 1982.

Answer 1

No close-ups of women were allowed. There could not be female central characters. Women in films couldn’t smoke.

Question 2

In four detailed sentences, describe four of the contributing factors for the emergence of the Taiwan New Cinema in the 1980s.

Answer 2

• Audiences were becoming more affluent and educated due to a new generation exposed to rapid modernization and no first hand memories of mainland China.
• The film industry was struggling economically as large, private studios began to disappear in the 70s.
• The government began supporting the film industry with goals of making it professional, artistic, and international.
• Political reform also contributed as martial law ended in 1987.

Question 3

In four detailed sentences, explain the four reasons for the boom in American independent filmmaking in the 1980s and 1990s.

Answer 3

• Labor policies changed for low- and mid-budget films and SAG policies changed.
• The theatre construction boom of the 80s and 90s greatly increased the number of screens per capita.
• New festivals and venues for independent films allowed independent films to reach a greater audience.
• There also began to be financing for “ancillary” or non-theatrical markets which also allowed for films to reach audiences straight from their homes.

Question 4

List 5 of the 10 rules of the Vow of Chastity from the Dogme 95 manifesto.

Answer 4

• No genre movies
• Format must be academy 35 mm
• Director must not be credited
• sound cannot be produced separately from the image and vice versa
• Film cannot contain superficial actions

Question 5

Drawing on both the book and the last day’s lecture, describe six (6) different ways (two [2] detailed sentence each) that digital technology has changed the pre-production, production, post-production, distribution, OR exhibition of cinema.

Answer 5

• Digital technology allowed for the emergence of previsualization. This concept began with storyboards (Disney) but eventually lead to crude animations being created to visualize scenes before they were shot.
• Digital color altering changed post production as well beginning with digital intermediary on film. This then lead to Look-up tables that were generic color templates that could be applied across films.
• Computer generated images has also become a major digital tool in cinema. CGI is used not only to create realistic fantastic creatures but also used in unnoticable ways to create realism like the retro SF skyline in Zodiac.
• Blue and green screens and motion capture technology have also come a long way in the production of cinema.
• Smaller, lighter digital cameras
• Low light shooting, day to night
• video assist