drama final

A camera can either change implied proximity or move, but it cannot do both at once.

false - Filmmakers often use techniques that employ both movement and shifts in implied proximity.

Digital backgrounds that use green screen to insert actors into the scene are an update of older technologies such as painted backdrops and rear projection

true

the focal length is the part of a lens that controls the amount of light passing through

false- iris

The effect of slow motion is achieved by speeding up the frame rate.

true - increasing the frame rate slows down the movement

no color was used in films (those made in the 1890s through 1930)

false - additive color system was the color systems the earliest color films (those made in the 1890s through 1930) use to include color

A miniature is a scale model that stands in for large structures, landforms, or objects.

true

 cinematography is the process of capturing images on film or digital video

true - comes from three Greek root words meaning “movement,” “light,” and “writing.”

actor wears a suit covered in reflective markers that are used to digitally translate the actor’s movements into those of a fantastical-looking dragon. this special effects method was called mechanical effects

false - motion capture or tracking

the loader is the member of the camera crew is responsible for putting the film stock in the camera

true

If a filmmaker employs animatronic monsters and prosthetics for her actors to wear, she is using optical effects

false - mechanical

A camera operator on a set is moving the camera to a specific location, then checking the lighting and blocking of the actors for a take. she is managing speed

false- setup

visual effects include any effect generated on set that can be photographed by the camera

false - special effects

special effects are effects created and integrated using computers in postproduction.

false - visual effects

Color grading is the process by which a colorist digitally adjusts the visual qualities of images during post-production. The process is also known as color correction, but that term can be misleading; color grading decisions are most often made to enhance the image, or for expressive and aesthetic reasons, not to “correct” mistakes.

true

Depth of field refers to the distance between the camera and the subject in focus

true

Color was not used in filmmaking until the 1930s.

false - Color has been used in filmmaking from its onset in the 1890s, as seen in this image from The Great Train Robbery (1903). Full-scale color production began in the late 1930s; however, additive color systems were in use earlier.

determining the speed and length of the shot, editing the film,designing the mise-en-scène and framing shots areresponsibilities of the cinematographer

false - determining the speed and length of the shot, framing shots, choosing the properties of the shot are

A take is an instance of capturing a shot

true

a gaffer  is a particular camera position that can be used to capture one or more shots

false - setup

In filmmaking, we call the relationship between the frame’s two dimensions (width and height) focal length

false - aspect ratio

speed measure of how sensitive a film stock is to light

true

Editors always follow a strict formula, called the content curve, to determine shot duration

false - The content curve is a useful tool, not a strict rule.

the creative team typically add sound, music, and visual effects; color grade the images; and mix together the many separate tracks of accumulated sound while the editor is in the thick of editing the picture and dialog

false - after the picture and dialogue are finalized

the 360 rule helps viewers make sense of the actors positions r4elative to each other

false - 180

axis of action separates two characters that are intersecting, invisible, when established , the camera will typically stay on one side of the line

true

begins with voice over narration before cutting to a stream of disconnected shots and sounds is called disconnected editing

true

organize fragmented action and events, create rise-en-scene, establish and control shot duration, pace, and rhythm, create spatial relationship btw shots, create temporal relationships btw shots are primary functions of editing

false - create rise-en-scene is not one of them, instead is create meaning through juxtaposition

split screen depics one or more simultaneous actions in a conspicuous way

true

Nearly every cut in every film is affected by the creation and communication of the meaning through animatic editing. This is also known as montage editing.

false - juxtaposition

The image repeated bleeds into the next shot, which is called fade

false- dissolve

master scene technique is the process where a filmmaker decides to photograph a single scene with a variety of shot types and angles to choose from In the editing phase

true

in the 1920s, Darren Aronofsky conducted an experiment in which he juxtaposed a shot of an actor, wearing a neutral expression with a number of other shots, and then screamed them and sequence for a test audience. With this simple experiment, he demonstrated a creative capacity, a film editing, the editor still use… The juxtaposition of images to create a new meaning, not present in any single shot by itself

false - lev kueshov

Editors are not known to express opinions about cuts. They simply enact the director’s vision

false- Editors are typically invested storytellers, and the director-editor relationship is often a collaborative one

The basic building block of film editing is the cut

false- shot

The most fundamental tool of the shot is the cut

true

They fight scene in a film, employ many shots of the same duration, which sets a fast pace

true

for classic cutting The same action in the scene is photographed multiple times, in shots of varying lengths and Speed

true

classical cutting uses coverage

true

classical cutting has action photographed once

false

classical cutting is only used for discontinuity editing

false

Each shot wipes horizontally across the previous one

true

Coverage is intended to provide the editor the freedom to select the best possible viewpoint for each dramatic moment.

true

On average, for a commercial feature film, for every minute you see on the screen, hundred minutes of footage were discarded

false -20

Postproduction is cutting together rough version of completed scenes to assist the Director in determining if additional footage is needed

false- production

Discussing storyboards and other pre-visualization materials is called preproduction

true

Postproduction is reviewing the completed footage provided, sharing draft versions of each scene with the Director, and applying feedback and progressive versions

true

A shot with relatively straightforward or simple Contant usually has a Contant curve duration.

false- short

A shot containing a great deal of information typically has a relatively short duration, giving the viewer time to process

false-long

The interplay between duration and information is known as the Contant curve

true

A film editor provides a Director with a video she created by sequencing, storyboard images and adding sound. This is called an animatic.

true

Master shot is a strategy the Director uses when shooting the same action of a scene using multiple angles and shot types

false- coverage

The 180° rule, match on action cut, and eyeline match cut are following techniques typically used in continually editing

true

Editors can juxtapose shots in a sequence that extends action across time by repeating the same action over multiple shots. This repetition momentarily holds viewers in a single instant of time, which assigns emphasis and significance to the extended action. this technique is called ellipsis

false- overlapping action

The editor handles adding all types of sounds as part of the rough cut

false -Although the editor makes notes about potential sounds or score to be added later and may even include temporary “scratch” sound, the editor focuses on editing the footage and dialogue. The sound designer and sound editor add the other sounds such as music through coordination with the editor and director. Moreover, this process occurs later than the first-draft edit known as the rough cut.

perceptual characteristic can be described as a location in which the sound originates

false- source

asynchronous sound is when a sound editor mixes sounds from multiple sources, including diverse quality, levels, and placement

false- montage

Narration is a vocal sound

true

ADR stand for audio dynamic recording

false- automatic dialogue replacement

Recording sound is the least technologically complicated aspect of filmmaking.

false -Sound is actually one of the more technologically complicated aspects of filmmaking.

the director is responsible for generating and controlling the sound in movies

false - the sound crew

Identifying necessary, zones, supervisors, recordings, and aids in editing best describes the role of a sound designer

true

Pitch is a sounds volume

false - loudness

Pitch is a level either high or low

true

Quality is timbre, texture, or color

true

Fidelity is a sounds faithfulness or unfaithfulness to its source

true

When sound links two shots with an overlap, it can help to create fidelity

false - continuity

Sound can help an audience define space in a film

true

Car horn is an example of sound effects

true

General city noise is an example of sound effect

false - ambient sound

I'm walking Here is an example of dialogue.

true

Film sound can help audiences identify the temporal dimensions of what they are watching.

true

nonfaithful best describes the sound we hear when the book hits the floor

true

Mixing is the process of combining all the different individual edited tracks of dialogue, sound effects, and music into one soundtrack

true

Foley artists create and record sound effects in sync with a picture.

true

Foleys are sounds that are created to be edited into a film

true

Automatic dialogue, replacement is when the camera records the image and the dialogue is recorded using in separate device

false - double system recording

Automatic dialogue replacement in what is essentially selective, lip-synching, actors, perform dialogue, or watching a record in to replace faulty sounds

true

Sounds loudness is defined by frequency

false- Pitch

Fidelity is defined by volume

false- loudness

The subject matter of films in Latin America are currently controlled by dictators and religious groups.

false - The subject matter of films in Latin America are currently controlled by dictators and religious groups.

Georges Méliès one of the fathers of science fiction and fantasy

true

DW Griffith created some of the first documentaries.

false- the Lumière brothers

Hollywood ranks first in annual film production in the twenty-first century

false- Bollywood, the primary film industry of India, produces about 1,200 feature films per year, far more films each year than Hollywood.

Alice Guy Blaché, the first woman film director only made three movies

false- most of her films had been lost

Dziga Vertov’s use of dynamic juxtaposition of shots and collision of sometimes-unrelated images identify him as a filmmaker of the Classical Hollywood movement

false- soviet montage

authorship is the idea that an individual film Director has a unique style

true

the technological approach is a project examining the different types of 3-D cinema

true

A paper focusing on the financial impact of Bollywood is the social history approach

false- the economic approach

An essay exploring the films of David Lynch is the aesthetic approach

true

Hey survey mapping audience responses to portrayals of LGBTQ. Characters is called the economic approach.

false - the social history approach

filmmakers begin to move their production companies to Hollywood, California, in the 1900s because California had favorable tax breaks

false- the consistently warm weather was good for location shooting

New American cinema begin around 1965

true

New American cinema was born out of practical adaptations to market changes

true

the technique did Welles pioneer that allows action in all three planes of depth is deep focus, cinematography

true

Auteur theory is an example of the aesthetic approach to film history

true

technological approach to film history would examine inventions like widescreen processes and Smell-O-Vision

true

An ape, rendered with cutting edge, visual effects, gains, advanced intelligence, and overthrow his human characters is an example of Neorealist approach to film

false- a retired man played by non-professional actor struggles to pay his rent and care for his dog

Commercial filmgoing in the United States began in the 1890s

true

Farewell My Concubine (Chen, 1993) was banned in China because of treatment of politics

false- the films portrayal of homo sexuality

British free cinema was primarily a documentary movement

true