Chapter 2

Question 1

Artists are able to give their work form in a way that drives our interest and focuses our attention by

Answer 1

creating a pattern.

Question 2

Which elements of a film work together to create its form?

Answer 2

Every element of a film

Question 3

What is the relationship between form and content in film?

Answer 3

They both function to engage the viewer.

Question 4

Audience expectations are created by the ______ of a film.

Answer 4

form

Question 5

How do conventions in form define film experience?

Answer 5

They fulfill expectations of what the audience expects to see in the film.

Question 6

Successful art has the ability to involve its viewers. How is this achieved?

Answer 6

By engaging our senses

By creating a structured experience

Question 7

Imagine you are watching a comedy film and you laugh. Which of the following best describes your reaction?

Answer 7

Emotional response

Question 8

The overall set of relationships among a film’s parts represents its __.

Answer 8

form

Question 9

Film viewers unfailingly try to understand what the film is trying to say or suggest. What are they looking for?

Answer 9

Meaning

Question 10

What is the best way to picture the relationship between form and content in a film?

Answer 10

Content enters into the total form of the film.

Question 11

How does the form of film sustain the interest of a viewer?

Answer 11

Creating and building expectation

Question 12

If you go to see a musical film, you expect to see singing and dancing. Why is that expectation taken for granted?

Answer 12

It is a convention.

Question 13

Which of the following best illustrates the conventional relationship between film form and emotional response?

Answer 13

Josh goes to see a horror film wanting to be frightened.

Question 14

What are reasons that the Yellow Brick Road in The Wizard of Oz offers meaning to viewers?

Answer 14

It connects the narrative and other elements of the film.

Question 15

______ refers to what a film as a whole is trying to say and what its significance is.

Answer 15

Meaning

Question 16

Saying you enjoyed a film is a question of ______.

Answer 16

personal taste

Question 17

Which of the following are functions fulfilled by the song “Over the Rainbow” in The Wizard of Oz?

Answer 17

To generate a positive reaction among viewers

To express Dorothy’s desire to leave home

To foreshadow the journey she takes in the film

Question 18

What is the term for any significant repeated element that contributes to the overall form of a film?

Answer 18

Motif

Question 19

True or false: Patterns we find in films are always the result of choices made by the filmmakers. For instance, Hitchcock was careful to limit all of the action in Rear Window to what the protagonist could see out of his window.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

True or false: While viewers tend to have differing ideas about the meaning of a film, it is the filmmaker’s intent that represents its true meaning.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

Which of the following is NOT a primary criterion by which critics evaluate film?

Answer 21

Enjoyment

Question 22

Does every element of the form of a film usually have a function?

Answer 22

Yes

Question 23

Adversaries in a film often oppose the desires of the protagonist. What principles of film form are at play here?

Answer 23

Variation

Question 24

At the beginning of The Shining, a knife rack is shown in the kitchen scene and reappears near the end when Wendy needs a weapon. What does the knife rack exemplify in terms of film form? (Click on image to enlarge.)

Answer 24

A motif

Question 25

Which of the following statements are true about patterns in film form or style?

Answer 25

Filmmakers often use patterns in a film that are similar to that of other films of the same form or style.

Filmmakers make choices in story development that result in patterns that underlie the film’s unity.

Filmmakers can use even common items, such as a door, to form part of a pattern in a film.

Question 26

What are reasons that the Yellow Brick Road in The Wizard of Oz offers meaning to viewers?

Answer 26

It connects the narrative and other elements of the film.

Question 27

Which of the following is NOT an example of variation in film form?

Answer 27

Repetition of motifs

Question 28

The Wizard of Oz is at its core the story of a journey, over the course of which the character of Dorothy evolves and changes. What principle is at play here?

Answer 28

Development

Question 29

Adversaries in a film often oppose the desires of the protagonist. What principles of film form are at play here?

Answer 29

Variation

Question 30

What is the best way to help understand the formal development of a film?

Answer 30

Compare the beginning with the ending

Question 31

What effect does overall unity in a film have on the viewer?

Answer 31

Completeness

Question 32

Which of the following is NOT an example of the principle of development in the form of film?

Answer 32

An event

Question 33

Which of the following is an example of how the comparison of beginning and ending illuminate the formal development of The Wizard of Oz?

Answer 33

Dorothy ends up physically where she started but as a changed person

Question 34

A film has ______ when all of the relationships we perceive within a film are clear and economically interwoven.

Answer 34

unity