Editing: The Flying Chicken

Question 1

In an interview with Alex Bellos of The Guardian Katia _____ stated her case to be credited as the film’s co-director.

Answer 1

Lund

Question 2

Daniel Rezende has emphasised that his use of digital editing allowed him to experiment and try out new ideas.

He claims that many of the interpretations of the characters were created at the _______ stage.

Answer 2

Editing

Question 3

__________ maintained that it was the editor/director who took the shot footage and created the film through the way the shots were joined together.

Answer 3

Kuleshov

Question 4

ontage is used for emotional effect.

The active and powerful way that it drives the narrative by combining different shots can be examined in terms of other theories used in early _______ cinema

Answer 4

Soviet

Question 5

These were laid down by _________ in 1923 in his essay The Montage of Attractions where he set out the importance of editing used not to link shots in continuity but to make them collide against each other to produce shocks.

Answer 5

Eisenstein

Question 6

Eisentein proposed that such shots opposed the illusionary ________ of Hollywood because they stress the artificiality of the work.

Answer 6

Realism

Question 7

In City of God opposing or colliding shots move from one mode to another – high to low angles, close up to long shots, movement within the frame left to right, right to left, up to down.

Long takes allow the spectator to settle into the scene; ________ jolts the spectator into a confrontation with the material, constantly removing and changing the image.

Answer 7

Montage

Question 8

The ‘restless’ style, characteristic of the whole film, announces itself from the start.

The film begins not with the customary establishing shot but with flashes that illuminate a series of close-ups – knife, hand and stone – with a cut to ______ between each shot.

Answer 8

Black

Question 9

The film begins not with the customary establishing shot but with flashes that illuminate a series of close-ups – knife, hand and stone – with a cut to black between each shot.

This is repeated _____ times in quick succession like a camera flash bulb lighting the scene.

Answer 9

Five

Question 10

The film begins not with the customary establishing shot but with flashes that illuminate a series of close-ups – knife, hand and stone – with a cut to black between each shot.

Close ups of hands on the neck of a guitar coincide with the entry of the music, the samba that is associated with Brazil, but particularly with the ______ of the slums.

Answer 10

Culture

Question 11

The film begins not with the customary establishing shot but with flashes that illuminate a series of close-ups – knife, hand and stone – with a cut to black between each shot.

The series of tight close up zooms in and out on further fragments of street life – faces, guitar, tambourine, ______ with tumblers of drinks, hands scraping and chopping carrots, chicken feet, chicken being lowered into the cooking pot.

Answer 11

Hands

Question 12

The first _____ shot of the film is of a live chicken on the table, tethered by its leg amidst piles of chicken feathers.

Answer 12

Mid

Question 13

The chicken appears around the corner and a drum beat accompanies a cut to a close up of a man who we will later know as L’il ______.

Answer 13

Ze

Question 14

His (Ze) exhortation to ‘Go after that chicken!’ begins the chase sequence of ________ shots – close ups followed by high shots.

Answer 14

Colliding

Question 15

High shots give a bird’s eye view of the space confined by the buildings.

These cramped places offer little escape.

A sound cut, from music to silence accompanies an abrupt change to a different place.

Rocket and _______, filmed from a low angle, walk down some steps.

Answer 15

Stringy

Question 16

A fast tracking camera follows the chicken.

The gang chase it, firing their guns into the air.

A police car arrives.

The flying chicken is trapped between the police car that would run it over and the gang who would kill it, just as ________ appears to be.

Answer 16

Rocket

Question 17

Close ups of hands on the neck of a guitar coincide with the entry of the music, the samba that is associated with Brazil, but particularly with the culture of the slums.

This sets up the location as a stereotypical tropical ________ scene stressing its ‘local colour’ in fragments, making music, making food.

Answer 17

Festive

Question 18

Another photographic flash illuminates Rocket with his _______.

Answer 18

Camera

Question 19

Another photographic flash illuminates Rocket with his camera.

This is in fact a flash forward to the scene that will replay very near the end of the film, where we will see the reverse shot denied us here, that of Ze bribing the police after his gun battle with ____ and subsequent arrest.

He zooms out from behind a network of bars, which collapses down into his image.

Answer 19

Ned

Question 20

The film begins not with the customary establishing shot but with flashes that illuminate a series of close-ups – _____, hand and stone – with a cut to black between each shot.

Answer 20

Knife