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| the basic building block of a movie |
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| when one camera position is selected, it and everything associated with it |
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| Cinematographic properties of the shot are controlled my the director of photographer (DP) include |
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| film stock, lighting, and lenses |
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| The basic goal of most special effects is to |
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| create an illusion of what is real or "illusion of reality." |
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| A single shot that has a duration of between one and ten minutes and preserves real space and real time is called |
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| Deep-focus cinematography is |
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| a technique that keeps all three planes of the film frame in focus |
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| A famous actor of star is seen as the |
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| best way to draw an audience to a movie |
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| In the very first movies (especially during the silent era) people on the screen were |
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| ordinary people playing themselves, not professional actors |
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| Whos is credited for inventing the art of screen acting |
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| Lillian Gish under the direction of D.W. Griffith |
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| The difference between actors today and actors in the Golden Age of Hollywood |
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| can choose their roles and name their salaries |
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| The Stanislavsky system of acting |
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| trained students to bring their own experiences and feelings to the roles |
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| The naturalistic style performance makes the behavior of actors |
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| believable and recognizable |
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| Todays actors' earnings are most influenced by their |
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| popularity with audiences |
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| Actors become typecast when |
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| they are repeatedly given particular kinds of roles based on their looks rather than their talent or experience |
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| shooting a film to substitute for stars during more tedious aspects of the shoot |
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| The most common ratio of unused to used footage in Hollywood productions is |
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| The film editor follows the directors vision in |
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| the interruption of the chronological progression of films action to show an important moment from the past |
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| The editor controls the rhythm of a film by |
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| varying the duration of the shots in relation to one another. This controls the speed and accents |
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| Master shots and the 180-degree system are |
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| the fundamental building blocks of continuity editing |
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| the cutting together of two or more lines of action that occur simultaneously at different locations |
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| a transitional device where a shot gradually superimposes over another shot |
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| a shot of a character looking off screen and then a shot from his or her point of view of what is being looked at |
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| more of a traditional film style of storytelling where images follow a logical order |
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| Discontinuity editing uses |
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| disruptive shots that might mix locations, time periods and angles that change the meaning of the story |
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| conflicting angles, movement jump cuts to create new meaning to film moments |
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| The crucial difference between sound and silent films is that |
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| a sound film can emphasize silence while a silent film has no option |
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| Mils film sounds are constructed |
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| motion picture sound is much more complex and that has made the sound designer a more prominent role |
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| The new digital format offers |
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| greater flexibility in the recording, editing, and mixing in a film |
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| Which of the following film sounds are typically recording during production |
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| dialogue and sometimes ambient |
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| Dialogue is typically recorded during |
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| Narration is most likely recorded during |
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| Ambient sounds can be recorded during |
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| production or as sound effects during postproduction |
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| Sounds effects are inserted during |
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| props or equipment is used to create simulated sounds like footsteps or a door closing |
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| Automatic Dialogue replacement |
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| to Rerecord sound originally recorded location or a set |
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| recorded on location like dialogue |
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| Nondiegetic sounds originate from |
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| a source outside a films world |
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| Orson Welles become famous overnight with his 1938 radio production of |
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| Orson Welles was later recognized for making of the the greatest films ever, |
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| Singing in the Rain shows |
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| the transition of films to sounds using comedy to show what struggles encountered when images didn't match the sound |
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| The development of series photography served as |
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| the bridge between still photography and cinematography |
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| _____ was recognized for his work in bridging still photography and cinematography |
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| The films of French magician and filmmaker George Melies are best known for |
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his innovative use of special effects created on the set
Ex: A Trip to the Moon (1902) |
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| The Birth of a Nation sparked nationwide controversy and picketing despite its groundbreaking and commercial success because the |
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| The popular film genre of Horror was most directly influenced by |
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| German Expressionism in the late 1920s and 1930s |
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| a film movement with distorted, exaggerated settings, oblique angles are used with nonparallel lines and the camera usually moves and is very subjective |
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| The power of montage (as expressed by society filmmakers of the 1920s lis in its ability to |
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| manipulate the viewers perception and undersanding |
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| Battleship Potemkin (1925) |
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by Soviety director Sergei Eisentein is considered his most influential and important film.
He later left the Soviet Union to do films in Mexico |
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| Documentary films are based almost totally on |
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| realism, location, and use real people to tell a story |
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| high contrast lighting, original music and unique editing style to scare the audience |
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| The genre Musicals became popular after the introduction of |
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| Italian neorealist films used actual locations, natural lighting, deep-soave cinematography and non profession actors to |
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| maintain an air of realism |
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| The Italian neorealist film _______ is considered the masterpiece of that movement |
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| the director of the film is seen as the author of the film |
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| a surrealist film movement in France. |
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| based on absurd in nature and anti conventional based on naturalistic psychological studies |
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| Directors were Vertov, Kuleshov, Eisenstein, and Pudovkin. Great influence on future directors with their fragmant approach |
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| The 400 Blows, a Francois Truffaut film about his youth. Cinema vert or truth film style based on realism |
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| China and Asian countries have |
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| advanced their filmmaking capabilities |
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| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
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| is a Taiwan film by Ang Lee that displays great choreography and settings along with special effects to aid the story |
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| Arkiro Kurosawa is seed as |
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| one of the most famous Japanese directors who adopted a more Western style approach to Japanese films |
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| Free cinema movement in England is based on |
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| social realism with a more documentary approach to issues of race, class, gender and sexual orientation |
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| largest film industry in the world |
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| 1,200 films per year and is referred to as Bollywood |
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| New American Cinema began in |
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| 1965 and continues to 1995 |
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| New American Cinema features |
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| more violence and sex with complex plots and new storytelling techniques |
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| The Wild Bunch is an example of |
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| the New American Cinema geared around sex and violence |
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| Women gain more maturity like Faye Dunaway in films like |
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| Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown...where she won acclaim for her strong performances of women seen as equals to their male counterparts |
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| The apprx. average total cost to produce and market a Hollywood film today is |
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| In traditional film production, the cinematographer controls the photographic image by advising all of the following |
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film stock
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camera angles and positions |
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| The preproduction phase includes: |
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Securing rights (ex: author of book)
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| The three phases of postproduction include |
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editing
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getting the film to haters and the public |
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| The five major studios in the mid 1930s were |
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| Vertical integration in the film industry controls |
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| the production, distribution, and exhibition of most films |
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| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was released |
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| in May 1984, images of chilled monkey brains, abuse of children, and pulling hearts out of people prompted the move to PG-13 which then showed July 1984 |
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| The rating system has the following designations |
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| For studio system era executives, TV represented a |
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| threat and was luring away movie theater audiences |
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| The formats of film stock from smallest to largest |
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| Digital technology changes film forever as it requires |
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| less light, no processing and can be easily duplicated |
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| Film stock is physical while digital is |
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| Motion Picture Association of America |
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| First Majors (film studios are) |
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| MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., 20th Centry Fox, RKO |
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| 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, Walt Disney, and Paramount |
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| the legend of a munchkin actor committing suicide by hanging and appearing in the scenery during Tin Man's introduction scene is false as shown in class |
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| Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Berman star in a film made before the US entered WW2 but released afterwards.. Great writing and classic Hollywood style made this a top 10 film of all time |
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| famous shower scene shows dynamic editing style and how Hitchcock got away with nudity at a time that was not acceptable |
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| deals with psychological intrigue as Gregory Peck plays a man with amnesia and needs Ingrid's help to remember a horrible accident he wittnessed |
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| The famous crucifix pose used in many films. Was used at the end of the 50 egg scene in |
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| parallel editing is used in the baptism scene to show the contradiction of the sacred bows of baptism with a series of murders orchestrated by Michel Corleone |
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| Frederico Fellini did this film about his struggles coping with Italy's film industry. His struggles with society and infidelity are also included. The dream sequence is heavy with symbolism involving capitalism, socialism, adultery, the Catholic church, and artistic freedom |
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| Christopher Holan took 10 years to develop this tory about stealing dreams. Physical special effects using air/water canons, a semi truck turned into a train and an infinite staircase are important elements of the film |
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| Steven Spielberg's epic on the persecution of the Jews during WW2 and how Schindler saved thousands of lives by putting them to work. The scene showed a little girl in a red coat which stands out because the film was made in black and white |
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| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
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| David Fincher's film on Stieg Larsson's book series. The physical exhaustion felt when Martin Vanger tortures Mikael Blomqvist was shown |
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| The force of the blows by JJ Gittes on Evelyn Mulwray were shown to expose a taboo subject in the film- incest. The original film noir approach in color by director Roman Polanski was also significant |
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| The first film identified when the Block-buster era began in film is ______. Always tied tosummer films. Blockbuster was used for earlier films, but more to identify high0-grossing films rather than a social phenomenon |
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| The Imaginarioum of Doctor Parnassus |
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| showed how changes were made to prevent a huge financial loss after the death of Heath Ledger |
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| uses sound to aid the images of dead people to aid the illusion and creates suspense of horror movements |
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| Ingmar Berman directs a film that is based on Swedish folklore and doesn't hold back as he shows the rape and murder of a teenage girl |
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