The Film Experience Chapter 5

Who directed the 1902 film Trip to the Moon?

Georges Méliès

True or False: Because of the male-dominated nature of the U.S. film industry, women were not allowed to serve as editors in the until the 1960s.

False

This Alfred Hitchcock film ends with a fading close-up of one of the main characters where the image of a skull can be seen emerging over the person's face.

Psycho (1960)

What is illustrated below?

180-Degree Rule

True or False: All narrative films, including art films, use continuity editing.

False

Which of the following best describes a Steenbeck?

A table used for editing of celluloid film

The iconic shootout scene in this 1967 film features 30 cuts over the span of just 40 seconds, showing the main characters getting gunned down in slow motion.

Bonnie and Clyde

True or False: In general, chase scenes are likely to be cut more quickly than conversations.

True

True or False: Ed Wood's 1959 science fiction film Plan 9 from Outer Space is known for its high budget and masterful editing.

False

This abstract Alain Resnais film about memory features a protagonist named "X" and a heroine known only as "A."

Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: A cut that follows a shot of a character looking offscreen with a shot of a subject whose screen position matches the gaze of the character in the first shot.

Eyeline match

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: A shot-by-shot representation of how a film or a film sequence will unfold.

Storyboard

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: An optical effect that briefly superimposes one shot over the next, which takes its place; one images fades out as another image fades in.

Dissolve

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: An edit in which the dominant shape or line in one shot provides a visual transition to a similar shape or line in the next shot.

Graphic match

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: A transition used to join two shots by moving a vertical, horizontal, or sometimes diagonal line across one image to replace it with a second image that follows the line across the frame.

Wipe

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: An edit that interrupts a particular action and intentionally or unintentionally creates discontinuities in the spatial or temporal development of shots.

Jump cut

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: An editing technique that cuts back and forth between actions in separate spaces, often implying simultaneity.

Crosscutting

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: An abridgment in time in the narrative implied by editing.

Ellipsis

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: A series of thematically linked shots or shots meant to show the passage of time, joined by quick cuts or other devices, such as dissolves, wipes, and superimpositions.

Montage sequence

Match the following definition to the corresponding key term provided below: A shot in which an entire scene is played out in one continuous take.

Sequence shot