Film final

The most basic form of transition is a

cut

One of the most common and efficient editing pattens is the shotreverse shot patten.

true

Which of the following is NOT one of the three main categories of film sound? 

room tone

A set of editing practices that establish spatial and/or temporal continuity between shot is known as

continuity editing

This person takes all the different components—the dialogue tracks, the sound effects, the score, and so on—and brings them together in an aesthetically balanced way.

sound mixer

A scene is a unit of dramatic action that takes place in one location over a single time period

true

The most prominent proponent of the auteur theory in the United States was Pauline Kael 

false

Which of the following is NOT one of the classical unities of drama as outlined by Aristotle? 

Unity of Character

The view that the director is a film’s chief creator developed by writers of the magazine Cahiers du Cinema and spread to the United States by Andew Sarris is known as...

Autuer Theory

Plot and Story can be used interchangeably. 

false

A character actor is a secondary performer who specializes in playing a similar, recognizable character type from film to film.

true

The acting technique developed by Konstantin Stanislavsky and popularized by Lee Strasberg and his New York drama school, the Actors Studio is known as...

the method

Who proposed the semantic/syntactic approach to film genre?  

Rick Altman

Dissolves and Superimpositions are examples of process shots. 

true

A type or category of film that has its own recognizable conventions and character types is known as a...

genre

The basic formal techniques associated with mise-en-scene, editing were radically altered when movies moved from being shot primarily on film to being primarily shot on video. 

False

Laura Mulvey wrote which of the following articles? 

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

What year did most major film distributors announce they would stop distributing movies on 35m film? 

2013

Which of the following is NOT associated with Soviet Montage theory. 

Louis Althusser

Laura Mulvey draws on the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan in Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema 

true