Midterm (Chapters 1-6)

Question 1

What is a “motif”?

Answer 1

an important element that is repeated throughout a film

Question 2

Which of the following criterion for evaluating a film involves an assessment of how emotionally engaging the film is?

Answer 2

intensity of effect

Question 3

The “rental” is

Answer 3

the share of the theatrical film gross that goes to the distributor

Question 4

In the judgement of a film’s quality, a “criterion” is

Answer 4

a standard that can be applied to many different films.

Question 5

During shooting, separate shots are made “out of continuity,” which means that they are created

Answer 5

in the order that is most convenient for production.

Question 6

A delay in the fulfillment of an established expectation creates

Answer 6

suspense

Question 7

Which of the following works is NOT structured around a journey?

Answer 7

Collateral

Question 8

A film is said to be complex if

Answer 8

it creates multiple relations among many different formal film elements.

Question 9

A “clapperboard” (also called a “slate”) is

Answer 9

a sign held in front of the lens to record information about a particular take.

Question 10

A preliminary synopsis of a film’s action is called a

Answer 10

treatment.

Question 11

Emotions experienced by spectators result from spectator’s perceptions of

Answer 11

formal patterns in the film

Question 12

Elements such as traditions, dominant styles, or popular forms that are comm to several different types of art are called

Answer 12

conventions

Question 13

Surprise generally results from

Answer 13

an expectation that turns out to be incorrect.

Question 14

Which of the following conventions, common in current films, would have be considered unusual in the 1940s and 1950s?

Answer 14

flashbacks to earlier events

Question 15

Implicit meanings are sometimes called

Answer 15

interpretations

Question 16

Which of these is NOT a standard width for film strips?

Answer 16

24mm

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT an example of a manifestation of the formal principle of difference in a film?

Answer 17

Characters wear similar costumes or hairstyles

Question 18

A film that is cohesive in its overall form has

Answer 18

unity

Question 19

Comparing the beginning with the ending of a film helps spectators to understand

Answer 19

the film’s overall pattern

Question 20

Ancillary markets are

Answer 20

film markets other than theatrical exhibition.

Question 21

A written outline that details the major and minor parts of a film, making the parts by numbers and letters, is a

Answer 21

segmentation

Question 22

A “work print” is

Answer 22

The unedited footage printed from the camera negative (mostly for editing now)

Question 23

Symptomatic meanings result from

Answer 23

the characteristics of a particular society at a particular time.

Question 24

Which of the following is NOT a stylistic element of a film?

Answer 24

the pattern of narrative events

Question 25

Which of the following is NOT a type of meaning that spectators might consider in a film?

Answer 25

declared meaning

Question 26

Which of the following describes a stylistic pattern used in The Wizard of Oz?

Answer 26

Colors are used to identify landmarks and locations within the story.

Question 27

Events involving characters that form a film's story is/are the

Answer 27

narrative elements

Question 28

A film's "development" is based on repetition as well as

Answer 28

progression

Question 29

Which of the following is NOT one of the modes of production?

Answer 29

conglomerate

Question 30

What is the term for the relationships among the parts of a film?

Answer 30

form

Question 31

What kinds of emotions are most likely produced by expectations that are fulfilled?

Answer 31

satisfaction or relief

Question 32

One convention of narrative form is that

Answer 32

the conclusion of a film resolves characters' problems

Question 33

Similarities between two or more distinct elements of a film are called

Answer 33

parallels

Question 34

A "master shot" is

Answer 34

a single take of all the action of a scene

Question 35

"Style" refers to

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a film's use of various cinematic techniques

Question 36

In a film when actors engage in conversation they usually

Answer 36

look directly at each other and seldom blink

Question 37

"Performance capture" focuses on filming

Answer 37

the face

Question 38

"Setup" refers to

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the first quarter of a film's plot

Question 39

The chains of actions that make up the narratives of classical Hollywood films typically depend on

Answer 39

psychological causes

Question 40

"Depth" of narration refers to

Answer 40

how much the spectator learns about the character's psychological states

Question 41

The opening scene of Pulp Fiction is an example of

Answer 41

a manipulation of temporal order

Question 42

Which of the following is not considered a part of shot's mise-en-scene?

Answer 42

the camera's angle on the action

Question 43

A complex character typically

Answer 43

possesses a variety of traits

Question 44

Christopher Nolan created a unique manipulation of times in his film Memento by structuring the story in which of the following ways?

Answer 44

in reverse chronological order

Question 45

What is the term for how often a story event is presented in a plot?

Answer 45

frequency

Question 46

Which of the following is not a type of lighting in the three-point lighting system?

Answer 46

rack light

Question 47

A "point-of-view shot" is taken from

Answer 47

a character's optical standpoint

Question 48

A "prop" is an object in the setting that

Answer 48

has a function in the action of the film

Question 49

Which of the following is not a term for a type of directional lighting?

Answer 49

overlighting

Question 50

Which of the following genres does NOT provide conventions used in Citizen Kane?

Answer 50

the Western

Question 51

At what point in a film does mot of the exposition usually take place?

Answer 51

near the beginning

Question 52

In a narrative film an element is nondiegetic it

Answer 52

is not part of the world of the depicted marrative

Question 53

The system if lighting widely used in classical Hollywood filmmaking is known as

Answer 53

three-point lighting

Question 54

Film scholars use the term mise-en-scene to describe the director's control over

Answer 54

what appears in the film frame

Question 55

Action that place before the plot begins is called the

Answer 55

backstory

Question 56

In a narrative, the sum total of all events in chronological order is the

Answer 56

story

Question 57

Which of the following statements is NOT true of the narration in Citizen Kane?

Answer 57

for much of the film, the information presented by the narration is the reporter Thompson's knowledge

Question 58

Film Art's segmentation of Citizen Kane shows that the film's narrative is built around

Answer 58

a series of lengthy flashbacks

Question 59

In Citizen Kane, the event that causes the reporter Thompson to write a story on Kane is Kane's

Answer 59

death

Question 60

Classical filmmakers prefer that the end of a film

Answer 60

bring closure

Question 61

In a film, the high point of the action that increases tension for the spectators is called the

Answer 61

climax

Question 62

As defined by Film Art, a film's "plot" is

Answer 62

everything visually and audibly present in the film

Question 63

What is the term for a chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurring in time and space?

Answer 63

narrative

Question 64

"Frontality" of staging means that

Answer 64

a character is facing toward the camera

Question 65

Stop-action involves

Answer 65

animating an object by changing its position between each frame shot

Question 66

what was technicolor notable for?

Answer 66

its rich, saturated hues

Question 67

what the first standardized projection speed for sound films?

Answer 67

24 frames per second

Question 68

what is affected by the focal length of the camera lens?

Answer 68

how much of the scene your camera will be able to capture

Question 69

define zoom lens?

Answer 69

a lens that can change focal length while a shot is being filmed

Question 70

what does "Depth of field" refers to?

Answer 70

the range of distances from the lens in which objects filmed will be in focus

Question 71

deep-focus cinematography was popularized in 1940s in part by what film?

Answer 71

Citizen Kane

Question 72

what is continuity editing

Answer 72

a system of editing that allows space, time, and action to flow smoothly over a series of shots

Question 73

what does "contrast" refer to?

Answer 73

?

Question 74

what is composite filming?

Answer 74

a feature fil whose screenplay is composed of two or more distinct stories

Question 75

define camera filters

Answer 75

?

Question 76

define hard matte

Answer 76

?

Question 77

in cinematography, what does "mask" refers to?

Answer 77

the practice of using a mask to protect a specific area of an image

Question 78

in a canted camera position, how do objects on the screen appear

Answer 78

not to be level

Question 79

what are the terms for camera distance, such as "medium shot," based on?

Answer 79

the size of the figures relative to the frame

Question 80

what does "reframing" refer to?

Answer 80

?

Question 81

what filmmakers are typically associated with the long take?

Answer 81

Orson Welles, Kenji Mizoguchi, Andy Warhol, and Gus van Sant

Question 82

what does the speed of motion presented on-screen depend on?

Answer 82

the rate of shooting and the rate of projection

Question 83

what is a moving circular mask that opens to reveal a scene or that closes to conceal a scene is called?

Answer 83

iris