FILM LANGUAGE.

Question 1

shots.

Answer 1

r. A shot is simply a piece of motion

picture film that has been exposed in a camera in a single, uninterrupted run

Question 2

frames

Answer 2

Within every shot or individual

pictures.

Question 3

transition

Answer 3

r. Every shot begins and

ends with a transition linking it to the preceding or following shot;

Question 4

these transitions include

Answer 4

e the cut, the dissolve, the wipe, and the fade-in and fade-out.

Question 5

A long shot

Answer 5

the camera appears to be at a long distance from the subject.

Question 6

A medium shot

Answer 6

s taken from

a somewhat closer position.

Question 7

a close-up

Answer 7

s taken from a very close position.

Question 8

high-angle shot

Answer 8

taken from above the subject,

Question 9

low-angle shot

Answer 9

below the subject,

Question 10

eye-level

Answer 10

taken straight on

Question 11

A two-shot

Answer 11

two people, either in medium shot or close-up

Question 12

a three-shot

Answer 12

s three people

Question 13

a master shot

Answer 13

reveals the entire

space of the scene including all of the characters. (can go into medium/close up daadada…)

Question 14

panning shot or pan.

Answer 14

rotating the camera horizontally

Question 15

a tilt.

Answer 15

y rotating it vertically

Question 16

tracking shots. or dolly shots

Answer 16

shots containing forward,

backward, or sideways movement of the camera

Question 17

crane shots.

Answer 17

Motion picture cameras are not compelled to stay on the ground. They
may be placed on long, swinging, mechanical arm They also enable the camera to follow a character
smoothly up or down a flight of stairs without the use of cuts, or to peep into
a second-floor window, or perform any motion involving shifts in height

Question 18

Hand-held shots

Answer 18

move anywhere a human being can move simply

by virtue of a camera operator’s ability to hold the camera in his or her hands.

Question 19

Steadicam

shots,

Answer 19

taken with a patented device that fits around the camera operator’s
waist, eliminate the inadvertent bumps and allow the operator to walk, run,
or maneuver through rocky ground without disrupting the flow of the shot.

Question 20

zoom

Answer 20

lenses create the impression of movement even though the
camera does not in fact move. Zoom shots or zooms are taken with a lens
with a variable focal length, shifling in the same shot between wide-angle and
long-focus or telephoto.

Question 21

Matching on action

Answer 21

the use of motion to create a visual bridge between
shots. For instance, shot A is a shot of a pole vaulter going over the bar from
left to right and beginning to fall out of the image, and shot Bis a shot of the
vaulter falling into the image and hitting the padding

Question 22

Graphic matches

Answer 22

are
made according to the shapes and positions of the objects being filmed. For
example, characters in conversation with each other tend to remain in the
same positions onscreen. If character A is on the right side of the screen and
character B is on the left, graphic matches ensure that they will remain so in
subsequent shots. (Consider the opposite: if the characters did not maintain
the same graphic position in the image, they would appear to flip back and
forth.

Question 23

eye-line matches

Answer 23

s maintain continuity between shots by way of
the direction of characters’ lines of vision. Shot A contains a woman on the
left of the image; she is looking down at something she is reading, but then
suddenly looks up, offscreen, to the left. Shot B contains another woman, also
on the left of the image. For the woman in shot B to appear to see the woman
in shot A, in which direction must she look? (Note that these shots are not
matched graphically; both characters are on the left of the image. Instead, the
shots are matched on the basis of the direction the characters are looking.) The
correct answer is that the woman in shot B looks to the right of the image.

Question 24

transitions

Answer 24

: the cut, the fade-in or fade-out, the dissolve, the iris, and the wipe.

Question 25

crosscutting or parallel action

Answer 25

two scenes occurring simultaneously but in two different places are edited together. Such
juxtaposition of scenes can be used to heighten suspense, as in the following
example. Scene A contains shots of a car racing down a highway, together
with shots of the man driving the car, while scene B contains shots of a pregnant woman walking into a hospital. Given the proper setup in terms of the
characters’ identities, crosscutting between these two scenes may suggest that the man in the car is attempting to reach the hospital to be with his wife when
she gives birth.