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The Fundamentals of Film Flashcards

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What is mise-en-scene

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Mise-en-scène is the stage design and arrangement of actors in scenes for a film production.

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What does the term lead room refer to?

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If a character is looking frame left, then he should be positioned frame right. This makes the framing comfortable because the subject is looking at the open space in front of him. This open space is called lead room or lead space.

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What is the rule of thirds?

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Another basic composition notion is the Rule of Thirds. To follow it, you have to imagine the frame with two vertical lines and two horizontal lines, thus creating three vertical sections of the same dimensions and three horizontal sections also of the same size. The intersections of the lines are points of interest, where important objects are placed in the screen.

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What is static composition?

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Compositions with the majority of lines being horizontal and/or vertical are called Static Composition.

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What is Dynamic Composition?

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When a composition has many diagonal lines it is called Dynamic Composition.

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Cross cutting a film during the editing process is done to produce what effect?

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Establishing the simultaneity of two actions by cutting between different sequences.

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What film was the first feature-length motion picture with a synchronized recorded musical score?

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Jazz Singer

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What is the writers room?

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A writers’ room is an office where writers of a TV show gather to work on the story and scripts.

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What sign does Michael Moore have in his editing room?

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When in doubt cut it out

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What does Michael Moore have to say about the left?

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The Left was funny in the 60s, and then we got really too damn serious. I don’t think it did us any good.

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But what does Michael Moore say about sound as it relates to documentaries?

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Pay your sound woman or sound man the same as you pay the DP, especially now with documentaries. Sound carries the story.

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It is said that the DNA of all animated features comes from this animated Disney film.

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Snow White

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What is the name of the genre associated with the school of documentary film making credited to Jean Rouch that includes improvisation while using the camera to unveiled the truth of its subject?

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Cinéma vérité

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What is the term used to describe a filmmaker who applies a highly centralized approach to a collaborative creative work commonly used to refer to directors with a recognizable style or thematic preoccupation?

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Auteur

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Stories got darker and grittier. New lightweight cameras were developed for the Battlefield and became widely available. Filmmakers left the sound stage to document post war experiences in the world. These were all a result of what?

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The effects the world wars had on the film industry.

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How did the studios themselves, make the Hollywood studio system vulnerable to antitrust cases brought against them in 1949?

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Each studio controlled the entire production of a film from script to distribution.

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This style of documentary filmmaking reports to unveil the truth hidden behind crude reality of the world.

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Cinéma vérité

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Define genre.

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Genre is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art, based on some set of stylistic criteria.

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Who is the first woman to direct a film?

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Alice Guy Blaché

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French-Swiss director, screenwriter and critic Jean-Luc Godard is most often associated with which movement in filmmaking?

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French New Wave

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Melvin Van Peebles 1971 film “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” is often credited with helping create which genre?

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Blaxploitation

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What is the definition of Blaxploitation?

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Blaxploitation refers primarily to a wave of independently produced genre films of the early 1970s. The name is a portmanteau of ‘black’ and ‘exploitation.’

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Also known for experimenting with sound-sync technologies, color-tinting, and pioneering interracial casting, who is credited as being the first woman to direct a feature narrative film?

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Alice Guy Blaché

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Define Italian neorealism

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A national film movement predominantly filmed on location and often frequently using nonprofessional actors to depict the difficult socio economic conditions faced by the poor and working classes in post World War II Italy.

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Who is John Nicholas Cassavetes?

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Film director considered to be a critical figure in American independent film. He usherd in a new era of realism.

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Define fair use in US copyright law.

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It is the doctrine that brief excerpts of copyright material may under certain circumstances be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching and research, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder.

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What is the definition of Avant-garde?

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The introduction of new experimental, ideas and methods in art music, film, or literature.

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How much money did the Corbett Fitz Simmons fight film make during its release over several years in 1897?

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$750,000

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What made the Corbett Fitz Simmons fight film unique?

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It was the first time that American prizefighting had been shown to the public.

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How did the producers of the Corbett Fitz Simmons fight ensure that it would be a commercial success that could not be duplicated easily?

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They used a proprietary film distribution method with a vera scope projector and provided the film in 63 mm.

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What is widely considered to be the worlds first feature length film?

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The Corbett Fitz Simmons fight.

32
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Define multiplatform entertainment

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Multi platform entertainment is a mode of storytelling that plays out across multiple entertainment channels, with each medium contributing to the story, in a way that leverages its distinct qualities and capabilities

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What is another word for multiplatform entertainment?

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Transmedia storytelling

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Is Star Wars an example of multiplatform entertainment?

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 Yes, absolutely probably one of the best examples.

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What is widely regarded as the first film and in which year was it produced and by whom?

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Traffic crossing Leeds bridge 1888 Louis Le Prince

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What is the name of the first cartoons in animation cinema history and who was the creator

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Pantomimes Lumineuses Charles, Emily Reynaud 1877

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Charles Emile Reynaud was considered to be the pioneer of animation. What was the name of the machine he created?

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Praxinoscope

38
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True or false the Lumiere Brothers “cinematograph” was a camera, projector and film copy machine all in one.

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True

39
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In what year was the cinematograph developed?

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1895

40
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How many films did Alice Guy Blache direct?

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1000

41
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Alice Guy made the first film with an all black cast. What was it called ?

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A fool, and his money

42
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Who developed the first American camera called the KINETOSCOPE?

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Thomas Edison

43
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In 1902 a cinema owner and former magician, developed the first special effects, and the use of film to depict and narrative who was this individual?

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George Melies

44
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A trip to the moon was a famous early film, created by what film maker

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George Milies

45
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What is the name of the first small film theatre venue named after the cost of the show and the Greek word for theater?

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Nickelodeon

46
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In what year was the first Nickelodeon established in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

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1905

47
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Marked by the transition to films with sound, the golden age of Hollywood became the age of the studio system. More stars were signed to specific studios with hefty contracts, complete with moral clauses, and exclusive, studio rights. In what year did this transition happen?

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1920

48
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In what year did the technicolour corporation create the first colour films?

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1922

49
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In 1981 MTV aired it’s first music video. What was the name of that video?

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 Video killed the radio star by the Buggles

50
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What made films by John Nicholas Cassavetes different?

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His films display an actor centred approach that features character examination over traditional narrative presentations. He is closely associated with improvisational cinéma vérité.

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What two things were typical in Blaxploitation films?

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Blaxploitation films were produced independently and, typically, with extremely low budgets.

52
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Who made Blaxploitation films and for whom were they made?

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Black-exploitation films were predominantly made by black crews for black audiences, though more widespread appeal around the world was found.

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Who would typically occupy a writers room?

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they typically include the showrunner, writers, staff writers, and script coordinator.

54
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What was the morals clause designed to do?

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The Morals Clause, initially was designed to establish some boundaries around the behavior of performing artists.

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What did the morals clause allow the studios to do?

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The clause gave the studios an effective ability to terminate a performer’s contract quickly if the clause was violated.

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