Quiz 3 Flashcards
(150 cards)
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Mise en scene
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Putting on the scene or staging (everything in a shot) (from the French theater) 
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How does mise en scene apply to film?
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-overall look and feel of a movie
-Can create specific style depending on Director
-Everything the audience sees 
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Two components of mise en scene
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Design and composition
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Design
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The process of creating the visual aspect
-Establishes the style and vision for film
-Creates time and place through setting
-Creates mood
-Characters State of mind
-Relates to themes of the film

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Composition
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The organization, distribution, balance, and relationship of the actors an objects within the space of each shot

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Framing (composition)
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How the Director composes the frame
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Kinesis (composition)
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Composing for the motion, our view is always changing
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Evolution of screenplay
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Treatment document
Story conference/rough draft
Storyboard/comic book version
Shooting script
Shooting schedule
Editing script
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Treatment document
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One page description of story, locations and actors needed
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Story conference/rough draft
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Producer, Director, screenwriter
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Storyboard/comic book version
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Shows all the key frames, zooms, pans, and movements 
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Shooting script
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Script in order of shoot
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Shooting schedule
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Always changing (Actors availability)
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Editing script
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Key to getting footage needed
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Starship trooper
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Storyboard-Shot in badlands of South Dakota
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Art department
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The head of our department is the Production designer
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Production designer
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Working with Director and cinematographer, lighting Director and storyboard artist
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Art Director
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Works for a production design, there may be several
-Draws and build models of sets and works with construction team such as sad
Ex: Dressers, properties, location, greenery, scenic painters
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Lighting Director
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Works with cinematographer
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Gaffer
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Chief electrician
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Best boy
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The first assistant, man or woman
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Grips
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Union workers who move equipment (They grab or grip)
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Costume designer
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Supervisors overall look of the characters such as hair, make up, wigs, SFX make up, wardrobe
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Elements of design
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Setting, decor, properties, lighting, costume, make up, hair
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Setting
Several sets or locations must be created or altered to suggest time and place
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Decor
Decorations to reinforce location, maybe pictures on wall or plants
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Properties
All of the items and actor handles, comes from the early stage meaning property belonging to the actor
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Lighting
Different types of lighting in a film, source of light
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Costume
Stars have their own costumes and designers (makeup and hair)
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Like producer (AL-above line)
Drive slow production to make sure it stays on budget
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Executive producer (AL)
Supervisors the producer, not on set usually
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Director (AL)
Assistant Director (second unit) Hasta remember the order of the script
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Director of photography (DP) 
Above line
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Production designer (AL)
Overall supervisor of visuals
-Art Director
-Lighting Director
-Costume designer often works for a specific star
-Wardrobe
-Make up
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Craft services
Food
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Production assistant (BL)
Does more than get coffee, many famous directors started as PAs
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Rule of thirds
Balance (our brain and I strive to find equilibrium) -Divide screen into nine areas (Could add three dabs layers to create 27 areas)
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Groups of three
1-top, middle, bottom
2-Left, Center, right
3-Foreground, mid ground, background
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Frame (top third)
Eyeline, lead or eye room
-keeps characters eyes in the upper 1/3 of frame
-Allows empty space to a character looking (eye room)
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Frame depth
Deep space composition (utilizing space)
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3 planes of depth
Foreground-closest to camera
Midground-between the foreground and background
Background-the furthest from camera
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Framing
What we see on the frame
-The frame is constantly changing, moving, and then being reframed
-Implies POV or point of view
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Onscreen or offscreen space
Dynamic relationship between what is the frame and what is outside the frame
-The viewfinder is the boundary to this relationship
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Noel Burch created ?
Six infinite areas around our frame
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6 infinite areas around our frame
Left, right, up, down, forward or in depth, behind camera
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Open format
-characters are free to move anywhere
-Less symmetrical framing
-Characters more important than setting
-More like real world experiences
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Closed format
-Characters acted upon, seemed posed, like in a painting
-symmetrical framing
-Setting may dominate shot
-more presentational or artificial
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Kinesis
Movement of objects within frame
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Blocking
The positioning of actors must be placed out with a cinematographer to capture action
-Movement of the frame itself
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Root words of cinematography
Kinesis-movement
Photo-light
Graphy-writing
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Sleepy hallow director ?
Tim Burton
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Gregg Toland
One of the best directors of photography
(Citizen Kane) (creative use of light, smoke, and mirrors)
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Director of Grand Budapest Hotel?
Wes Anderson (The use of green screen and the use of tracks and tracking shots)
-You storyboards on tablet
-Very involved with the crew
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Shot
One uninterrupted run of the camera (Building block from action to cut)
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Take
Number of times the shot is taken
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Outtakes
Takes that are not usable
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Sequence
Several shops that tell a story
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Scene
Made up of several sequences
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Set up
One position of the camera, lighting, scenery, blocking, everything
-Every time a new set up as needed it is very expensive because of crew time and lost time
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Camera operator
Shoots the footage
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First assistant cameraman
In charge of equipment, lenses, tracks
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Second assistant cameraman
Loads film/memory
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Gauge
With 8 mm, 16 mm, 35 mm, 65 mm, 70 mm
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35mm
Most common for future films but major productions are now switching to more use of digital memory
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Digital
Digital memory keeps improving but does not have the same density of film stock
-Digital is much easier to edit
-Mini movie shot in film or eventually transferred to digital
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Speed
The degree to which the film is light sensitive
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Slow speed
Needs lots of lights but gives great details and rich color-Needs lots of developed lighting
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Fast speed
Good and low light or with handheld cameras-the trade-off is images can be grainy and the color is washed out
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Tonal range
Colors one filmed in black-and-white
-The human eye can discern 9 to 12 grades from black to white
-Sense of gritty realism – early documentaries
-we tend to think of black-and-white films as more realistic
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Tonality
System of tones, must be planned as the costumes and skin tones are in color
Ex: Schindler’s list (uses complex levels of warm greys)

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Important black-and-white films
Gone with the wind, Casablanca, high noon
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Why were almost all films black-and-white before 1948?
Color was very expensive
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Modern b&w
Ex: to kill a mockingbird or Schindler’s list by Steven Spielberg
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History of color
Expensive in the early days
-Would hand paint each frame
10 min film=9600 frames
60min film=576,000
Birth of a nation over 3 hours long!
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Tinting
Dying film base before filming (Much more blacker blacks)
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Toning
Dying after the film was shot 
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Technicolor additive process (1915)
Mixing from three primary colors red, blue, cyan
-Became subtractive in 1932
-Shooting with three strips of film
-Subtraction of color components from each Layer
-Required very bright light – could not be shot outdoors-Cameras too bulky
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Eastman color
Replace the bulky Technicolor system with a single strip of film in 1941

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Lenses
Aperture/iris, focal length
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Short lenses
Short focal length 12.5 mm
-Exaggerates steps, warps lines
-Every object is shot in focus
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Long lens
Long focal length 85 to 500mm
-Flatness space, specific area of focus
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Standard Lens
Middle focal length 35 to 50mm
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Zoom lens
Variable focal length
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Depth of field
-Creates emphasis
-distance in front of camera and which subjects are in focus
-Short lines have very deep depth of field
-Long lens have very narrow range
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Rack/pull focus
Adjustment of focus from one plane to another
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Aspect ratio and the anamorphic lens
Wide screen images can be achieved by shooting with an anamorphic lens and later projected to unsqueeze an image
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Sources of light
Natural-sun or moon
Artificial-lamp, window, etc
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Hard light
Parallel beams-create hard shadows
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Soft light
Light is diffused – light rays come from several directions – shadows are minimized
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Direction of light
Top, side, front, back, below
-Angles of each create different shadows
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Low key
Little or no fill light for dramatic moments
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High key
Little contrast usually for comedies or lighter films
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Three point system
Key, fill, and back
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Aspect ratio
The size and shape of frame
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Proximity
Distance of Camera character or object
-The shot close up, medium, etc.
-Depth of shot
-camera angle and height
-Camera movement – Dolly, track, etc.
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Extreme long shot
Figure too small to recognize
-Used for establishing shot, to establish location
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Long shot
Full body but with space above and below
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Full shot
Full human figure, feet to head
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Medium long shot
Knees up (Cowboys shot)
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Medium shot
Waist up, full body if seated
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Medium close up
Middle chest and head
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Close up
Shoulders and head
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Extreme close-up
Head or very close to an object
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Early film and TV
Size and shape of projection
-When film first began they use the basic shape of theater stage (4x3)
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American wide screen
Filmmakers wanted larger screen in the 1950s
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Camera angle
Subject in relation to height of camera
-Love means the camera is low relative to the subject
-I level is normal POV
-Deviants from my level has meaning
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High angle
Make subject look weak and vulnerable
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Low angle
Suggest that the character is strong and powerful
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Dutch angle/oblique
Suggest that the world is out of balance
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Aerial/birds eye view
Implies observers omniscience
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Pan shot
Lateral movement from a fixed position
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Tilt shot
Vertical rotation from fixed position
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Pedestal shot
Lowering camera without changing the angle
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Dolly shot
Camera moves on vehicle
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Tracking shot
Vehicle rides on tracks
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Zoom shot
Shifting of focal length of lenses
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Crane shot
Camera mounted on crane (Hand held or steady cam)
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Typical shot length
Five seconds in silent era/10 seconds in sound era
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Long take
Relative to the genre and Director
-Dramas may have longer shots an action films
Ex: Longtake in 1917
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Slow motion
Shows action more intensely
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Fast motion
The action may seem out of control
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What does the phrase mise en scene translate to in English
Putting on stage
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Where does the phrase originate from
French
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What does the phrase include for film
Visuals
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What are the two parts of mise en scene?
Design and composition
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Who is the one person in charge of all the visuals?
Production designer
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What does the gaffer do?
Chief electrician
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Best boy or a girl?
The main assistant
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Name a production member that is above the line?
Director, production designer
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What is lead room?
Extra space in front of the character
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In rule of thirds which lens do the eyes align?
Top horizontal line
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What is the small space above a characters head?
Headroom
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Between open and close formats, which is most realistic? 
Open
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What are the six infinite areas around the screen according to Noel Burch?
Left, right, up, down, front, back
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Sleepy hollow is directed by?
Tim Burton
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What is the document that sketches out how each scene will be photographed?
Storyboard
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Who’s job is it to keep the film production on schedule and on budget?
Line producer
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What would be the difference between a movie with a close format then a movie with an open format?
close the characters are set in one spot, scenery is more important
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Who was Greg Tolland and why is he important to cinematography?
He Kickstarter a more artistic form of cinematography
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What do the root words mean in cinematography?
Movement, light, writing
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What tool did Wes Anderson use in grand Budapest Hotel?
Storyboarding
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What size film gauge is the most common when using film?
35mm
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What median is taking over because of the ease of editing?
Digital
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Why were most films in black-and-white before 1948?
Cheaper
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What did Steven Spielberg do in Schindler‘s list to represent the individual rather than the masses?
Girl in the red coat
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Can you list shots by how they capture the human form?
Extreme long shot, long shot, full shot, medium long shot, medium shot, medium close-up shot, close-up shot, extreme close-up shot
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What angle makes a character look weak?
High angle
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What lens best replicate human vision?
Standard lens
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What is the three-point lighting system?
Key light, back light, fill light
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What was the aspect ratio of early television and movies?
1-1 1/3
