Ch 1 - Looking at Movies

Question 1

Cinematic Language

Answer 1

composed not of words but of myriad
integrated techniques and concepts, connects us to
the story while deliberately concealing the means by
which it does so

Question 2

film

Answer 2

term often applied to a motion picture that critics and scholars consider to be more serious or challenging than the movies that entertain the masses at the multiplex.

Question 3

Cinema

Answer 3

from the Greek kinesis (“movement”), originates from the name that filmmaking pioneers Auguste and Louis Lumière coined for the hall where they exhibited their invention

Question 4

term derives from the celluloid strip on which the images that make up motion pictures were originally captured, cut, and projected

Answer 4

film

Question 5

Short for motion pictures

Answer 5

Movies

Question 6

What do film, cinema, and movies share?

Answer 6

narrative

Question 7

strive for objective, observed veracity

Answer 7

Documentary films

Question 8

Inspired “Bollywood” Indian cinema to feature staging
that breaks the illusion of reality favored by Hollywood
movies

Answer 8

Sanskrit dramatic traditions

Question 9

editing

Answer 9

joining together of discrete shots

Question 10

gives movies the power to choose what the viewer sees and how that viewer sees it at any given moment.

Answer 10

Editing

Question 11

Director

Answer 11

the top of the creative hierarchy, responsible
for choosing (or at least approving) each of
the primary collaborators

Question 12

The other primary collaborators on the creative

team

Answer 12

1. screenwriter
2. actors
3. director of photography
4. production designer
5. editor
6. sound designer

Question 13

The director’s primary responsibilities

Answer 13

performance and camera—and the coordination of the two.

Question 14

Storyboards

Question 15

Blocking

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Cut

Question 17

Close-Up

Question 18

Fade-out/Fade-in

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To convey passage of time the last shot of a scene grows gradually darker (fades out) until the screen is rendered black for a moment.
The first shot of the subsequent scene then fades
in out of the darkness

Question 19

low-angle shot

Answer 19

taps our instinctive association of figures who we must literally “look up to” with figurative or literal power.

Question 20

Cutting on action

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one of the most common editing techniques

Question 21

Designed to hide the instantaneous and

potentially jarring shift from one camera viewpoint to another

Answer 21

cutting on action

Question 22

Ends the first shot in the middle of a continuing action and starts the connecting shot at some point in the same action

Answer 22

Cutting on Action

Question 23

Protagonist

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Main character

Question 24

implicit meaning

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lies below the surface of a movie’s story and presentation
closest to our everyday sense of the word meaning.
It is an association, connection, or inference that a viewer makes on the basis of the explicit meanings available on the surface of
the movie.

Question 25

formal analysis

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dissects the complex synthesis of cinematography, sound, composition, design, movement, performance, and editing orchestrated by creative artists

Question 26

form

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the means by which a subject is expressed.

Question 27

Theme or Motif

Question 28

dollies in

Answer 28

the camera moves slowly toward the subject

Question 29

Bechdel Test

Answer 29

qualifies films as woman-friendly only if they

(a) have at least two women characters who
(b) talk to each other
(c) about something besides a man