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Aesthetics of Film
Quiz 3
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
04/30/2008

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Why is sound the hardest cinematic technique to study?
Definition
Audiences are inclined to think of sound simply as accompaniment to the moving images.
Term
Sound gives a new value to what?
Definition
Silence
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Which of the following enable(s) the audience to recognize different characters' voices?
Definition
All of the answers are correct
Term
Which of the following are the types of sound in the cinema?
Definition
speech, music, noise
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What is a sound track?
Definition
an ongoing stream of auditory information
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Sound relates to visual events that take place in a specific time. This relationship gives sound what?
Definition
temporal dimension
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What is fidelity in sound?
Definition
the extent to which the sound is faithful to the source as conceived by the audience
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In film, which is more difficult for the audience to notice, diegetic or nondiegetic sound?
Definition
diegetic
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What is simultaneous sound?
Definition
the matching of sound with the image in terms of story events
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What is a sound bridge?
Definition
either nonsimultaneous sound from earlier in the story than the images
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Why is sound a powerful film technique?
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All of the answers are correct
Term
If a sound is coming from off-screen, this means that
Definition
None of the answers are correct.
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What is style?
Definition
how film techniques interact to create another formal system of the film
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No single film uses all the technical possibilities available. Which of the following accounts for this?
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All the answers are correct
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What is the first step of analyzing a film?
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to understand how the film is put together as a whole
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In analyzing a film according to the salient techniques used, what must initially be noticed?
Definition
the things, such as cutting and framing, that most viewers do not consciously notice
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Does stylistic patterning have to follow the structures of narrative and nonnarrative films?
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No, it does not have to follow the structures of either type.
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Style may enhance which of the following in a film?
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All the answers are correct.
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What is one way the audience may sharpen their sense of the function of specific film techniques?
Definition
to imagine alternatives and reflect on what differences that would make
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Citizen Kane offers a good example of how a director does what?
Definition
chooses between alternatives
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The River creates parallels by means of rhythms within what two elements?
Definition
the editing and cinematography
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The purpose of the film Ballet Mecanique is what?
Definition
to make objects dance
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The most noticeable characteristic of mise-en-scene in A Movie is what?
Definition
its great variety
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What rules need to be followed in order to understand films?
Definition
no specific set of rules
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Which of the following is not a film genre?
Definition
the experimental film
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The most popular way of defining genre is by a film's what?
Definition
manner of presentation
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What is iconography of a genre?
Definition
recurring symbolic images that carry meaning from film to film
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Which of the following is not considered a conventional plot element?
Definition
a sad ending in a drama
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A batch of genre films that enjoys intense popularity and influence over a distinct period is what?
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cycle
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Although cinema became commercially successful in 1895, when was the first film genre (Western) defined?
Definition
1908
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Analyzing genre in terms of providing social commentary is called what?
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reflectionist viewing
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What was the basic theme for Western films early in the genre?
Definition
the conflict between civilized order and the lawless frontier
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The horror film can be categorized by what?
Definition
All the answers are correct.
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What is a family horror film?
Definition
a film that reflects social concerns about the breakup of American families
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The first movie musicals followed what structure?
Definition
the musical revue format
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Musicals typically celebrate which of the following?
Definition
American Ideals
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