Film Appreciation Final - Flash Card Set

Multiple Choice (12)

Pre production

• Location finding

• Script writing

Production

• Filming

Post production

• Editing

• Marketing

• During which phase of production does casting …. Take place? (pre)

Three Act Structure

• Aristotle

• Rise, fall, mid-point, etc.

• What is the second act? (confrontation)

• What is the last part of the structure? (denouement)

Shot Selection

• Types of shots; mid-shot, close up, wide, etc.

• What kind of shot was used in Citizen Kane when Orson Welles whispers “Rosebud?” (extreme close up)

Camera Movement

• Pan, tilt, dollying, etc.

• What is a pan? (camera that moves left and right)

180 Degree Rule

• Using an axis of action between two characters, this rule is often used… (180 Degree Rule)

Direct address

• Breaking the fourth wall

• What is Direct Address?

Experimental Films

• Ex. Meshes of the Afternoon

• Maya D.

• Woman walks around her apartment, things keep turning into other things

• Which of the following experimental films screened in class has a woman alone in her house with a knife and key and weird mirror face

Formalism

• Stan Brakhage

• Movies that are not concerned with characters or plots

• What kind of films did Stan Brakhage make? (formalist)

Observational Documentary

• Fly on a wall

• What kind of documentary is Hoop Dreams? (observational)

True/False (13)

Method Acting

• Embody the character

• Internal acting

• Another name for method acting is internal acting… true

Montage

• To go through time, Ex. marley and me

• A montage is used to show through time… true

Principle Photography

• Bulk of a move

• The production phase

• The majority of footage filmed for a project during production is principle photography (true)

Genre

• A classification for a movie

• Conventions (how we define them: characteristics of films

• Sci-fi: aliens

• Comedy: high key lighting

• Horror: final girl

• Aliens are a classification in the sci-fi genre… true

• High key lighting is a classification in the comedy genre… true

• A “final girl” is a classification in the horror genre… true

Participatory Documentary

• Filmmaker is active participant in the documentary

• Bowling for Columbine and Micheal Moore was a participatory documentary (true)

Day and Date Releasing

• Released in theaters and on streaming on the same day

• Ex. FNAF movie

• Day and Date releasing is releasing in theaters and streaming the same day… true

Antagonist

• The “bad” guy

• Ex. Darth Vader or Thanos

• An antagonist is the bad guy/opposes the protagonist… true

Three Point Lighting

• Key light, fill light, and a backlight

• Which is the main light source? (key light)

Story vs. Plot

• Plot is what happens between the credits

• Story is everything that goes beyond just that

• Story and plot are the same thing (false)

Auteur Theory

• Director is the “author” of the movie… true

Box Office

• Studios get to keep 100% of the box office.. False

Key Terms

• Director of photography

  • Main guy, cinematographer

  • The member of the film crew who selects the cameras, film stock, lighting, and lenses to be used as well as the camera setup or position; also known as the cinematographer

• Deep focus

  • Cinematography style where everything is in focus

  • A camera technique using a large depth of field in which multiple planes in the shot are all in focus simultaneously, usually with a special lens. See wide-angle lens.

• Dutch tilt/canted angle

  • Angled shot

  • ​​Framing that is not level, creating an unbalanced appearance.

• Dissolve

  • An optical effect that briefly superimposes one shot over the next, which takes its place: one image fades out as another image fades in.

• Eyeline match

  • 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.

• Documentary

  • A nonfiction film that presents real objects, people, and events.

• Steadicam

  • A camera stabilization system introduced in 1976 that allows a camera operator to film a continuous and steady shot without a dolly or other device.

• Producer

  • The person or persons who oversee each step of a film project, especially the financial aspects, from development to postproduction and a distribution deal.

Definitions

• Mise en scene

  • All the elements of a movie scene that are organized, often by the director, to be filmed and that are later visible onscreen; includes actors, lighting, sets, costumes, make-up, and other features of the image that exist independently of the camera and the processes of filming and editing.

• Diegesis

  • The world of the film’s story (its characters, places, and events), including what is shown and what is implied to have taken place. It comes from the Greek word meaning “narration.” See mimesis.

• Aspect ratio

  • The width-to-height ratio of the film frame as it appears on a movie screen or television monitor.

• Foley artist

  • A member of the sound crew who generates live synchronized sound effects while watching the projected film; named are the inventor, Jack Foley.

• Storyboard

  • A shot-by-shot graphic representation of how a film or a film sequence will unfold.

• Frame narration

  • A literary technique that serves as a companion piece to a story within a story

Directors/Characters

• Barton Fink

  • The Coen Brothers

  • Barton Fink, Charlie Meadows, Jack Lipnick, & Ben Geisler

• Citizen Kane

  • Orson Welles

  • Charles Foster Kane, Jerry Thompson

• Do the right thing

  • Spike Lee

  • Mookie, Radio Raheem, Buggin Out, Sal & Da Mayor

• Vertigo

  • Alfred Hitchcock

  • John Ferguson, Gavin Elster, Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton, & Midge Wood

• Hedwig and the angry inch

  • John Cameron Mitchell

  • Hedwig/Hansel, Tommy Gnosis, Sgt. Luther & Bandmates

• The rules of the game

  • Jean Renoir

  • Pilot, wife, murderer, husband, mistress & brother-like character

• Sunrise

  • F.W. Murmau

  • Man, Wife, Woman from City, Maid, Photographer, etc.

• Rashomon

  • Akira Kurosawa

  • the bandit, the medium, the woodcutter

• Jeanne Dielman

  • Chantel Akerman

  • Jeanne Dielmann, her son, her clients

• But I'm a cheerleader

  • Jamie Babbit

  • Megan, Graham, Mary Brown & Mike

• Blue velvet

  • David Lynch

  • Jeffery Beaumont, Dorothy Vallens, Sandy Williams, Frank Booth, & Detective Williams

• Thing

  • John Carpenter

  • MacReady, Childs, Nauls, Dr. Blair, Palmer, Beginnings, Norris, Dr. Copper, Garry, Windows, Fuchs, & Clark (the Thing ofc.)

• Grizzly man

  • Werner Herzog

  • Timothy Treadwell

• Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassssss Song

  • Melvin Van Peebles

  • Sweetback, Mu-Mu, Beetle, & Commisioner

• DDLJ

  • Aditya Chopra

  • Raj and Simran

• Cache

  • Michael Haneke

  • Georges Laurent, Anne Laurent, Majid Lester, & Pierrot Laurent

Screening Short Answers (16?)

• Name the film that focuses on the controversies surrounding an environmentalists that dies by a bear

  • Grizzly Man

• A movie that uses voice over narration

  • citizen kane

  • Hedwig and the angry Inch

  • Rashomon

• Name a movie that uses nonlinear narration style

  • Rashomon

  • Hedwig and the angry Inch

  • citizen kane

• Name the film that features a score from earth wind and fire

  • sweet sweetback’s baadassssss Song

General short answers

• Lemon

  • Experimental film about a lemon

  • Describe Lemon :

    • it’s an 8 minute short film about a lemon, that looks like a boob, that the lighting changes around the lemon

• Restrictive vs omniscient narrative

  • Restrictive: character pov

  • Omniscient: god, horror movies

• Temporal vs physical settings

  • Temporal: time period (1800s)

  • Physical: actual place (Boston)

• Soundtrack vs score

  • Soundtrack: prerecorded music (marvel)

  • Score: written for the movie (harry potter)

• Formalism vs realism

  • Formalism: experimental

  • Realism: film that mimics reality

• Tracking vs zoom

  • Tracking: follow person, moving camera

  • Zoom: in and out, steady camera

• Jump vs shock

  • Jump: same shot, different time

  • Shock: same shot, different location

No wrong answer questions

• What was your favorite movie we watched

• Describe a movie in which a major role was miscast

• Etc.

Final question

• Rank the movies from best to worst