Film styles

Question 1

what is a shot taken by a camera on a moving crane or jib?

Answer 1

Crane shot

Question 2

Which filmmaker created the first crane?

Answer 2

D. W. Griffith for his 1916 epic film Intolerance

Question 3

What movies have crane shots?

Answer 3

Leni Riefenstahl had a cameraman shoot a half-circle pan shot from a crane for the 1935 Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will. A crane shot was used in Orson Welles’ 1941 film Citizen Kane. Welles also used a crane camera during the iconic opening of Touch of Evil 1958

Question 4

Why do filmmakers use crane shots?

Answer 4

to capture emotional or suspenseful scenes, or as a way to zoom out from the set or characters to signify the end of a film.

Question 5

What is a type of film style that emerged in the 1940s in the US?

Answer 5

Film noir

Question 6

Film noir filmmakers list (TOP 10)

Answer 6

Robert Siodmak.
Fritz Lang.
Alfred Hitchcock.
Billy Wilder.
​Nicholas Ray.
Jules Dassin.
Orson Welles.
John Huston.

Question 7

What is a shot in which the camera has been rotated around the axis of the lens and relative to the horizon or vertical lines in the shot?

Answer 7

Dutch angle

Question 8

What is a Dutch angle used for?

Answer 8

To enhance a disorienting or uneasy feeling in a scene

Question 9

What was the first film to use the Dutch angle?

Answer 9

Dziga Vertov was the first to famously use the Dutch tilt in his 1929 film, “Man With a Movie Camera.”