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Film Theorie Flashcards

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What is a silent film?

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A film with no synchronized recorded sound and no audible dialogue

Silent films are almost always accompanied by live sounds.

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Name two examples of silent films.

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  • The Gold Rush (1925)
  • The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
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What techniques did silent-film actors emphasize?

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Body language and facial expression

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Who is Charlie Chaplin?

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An English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer, best known for his screen persona ‘the tramp’

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What significant company did Charlie Chaplin co-found in 1919?

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United Artists

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What is a ‘talkie’?

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A motion picture with synchronized sound

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What was the first feature film presented as a talkie?

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The Jazz Singer (1927)

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What is Kinemacolor?

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The first successful colour motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914

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Who invented Kinemacolor?

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George Albert Smith

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What is Technicolor?

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The second major color process, widely used in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952

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What characterized Technicolor’s popularity?

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Highly saturated color

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Who is Victor Fleming?

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An American film director known for The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind

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What is diegetic sound?

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Sound heard by both characters and the audience, also called ‘literal sound’

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Name two examples of diegetic sound.

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  • Voices of characters
  • Basic sound effects like dog barking
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What is non-diegetic sound?

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Sound represented as coming from a source outside the story space, also called ‘non-literal sound’

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Name two examples of non-diegetic sound.

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  • Narrator’s commentary
  • Film score
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What does ‘Classical Hollywood cinema’ refer to?

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A narrative and visual style of filmmaking characteristic of American cinema between the 1910s and the 1960s

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What is continuity editing?

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A style of editing that maintains a continuous and clear narrative through visual coherence

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What is the 180-degree rule?

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A visual-spatial rule that creates an imaginary axis to keep consistent viewer orientation

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What is narrative logic in classical Hollywood cinema?

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A progression through psychological motivation, typically involving human character struggles

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Who is George Orson Welles?

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An American actor, director, writer, and producer known for Citizen Kane

22
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What is Citizen Kane known for?

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Consistently ranked as the greatest film ever made

23
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Who is Alfred Hitchcock?

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An influential English film director known for over 50 feature films

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What is an ‘American shot’?

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A medium-long shot of characters arranged to allow complex dialogue scenes without changing camera position

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What is a close-up shot?

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A shot that tightly frames a person or object, displaying the most detail

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What is a crane shot?

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A shot taken by a camera on a moving crane or jib

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What is the Dutch angle?

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A camera shot set at an angle on its roll axis to create psychological uneasiness

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What is a wide shot?

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A shot that typically shows the entire object or human figure in relation to its surroundings

29
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What is background lighting?

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Lighting used to illuminate the background area of a set

30
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What is Rembrandt lighting?

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A standard lighting technique that produces a triangle of light under the eye on the less illuminated side of the face

31
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What is the purpose of the key light?

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To highlight the form and dimension of the subject

32
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What is the difference between hard and soft light?

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Soft light wraps around objects, casting diffuse shadows; hard light casts sharp shadows

33
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What is the effect of omitting the key light in a scene?

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It can result in a silhouette effect.

34
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What is soft light in photography and filmmaking?

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Light that tends to ‘wrap’ around objects, casting diffuse shadows with soft edges.

35
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What type of light comes from a large source relative to the subject?

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Soft light.

36
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What type of light comes from a small source relative to the subject?

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Hard light.

37
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What two factors primarily determine the hardness or softness of light?

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  • Distance
  • Size of light source
38
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What is A-roll in filmmaking?

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Raw, unedited material as originally filmed by a movie camera.

39
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What is B-roll in film production?

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Secondary images presented without sound, often cutting away from the main story.

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What is a cutaway scene?

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An interruption of a scene with the insertion of another scene, often comic in nature.

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What is the purpose of an establishing shot?

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To set up the context for a scene by showing the relationship between important figures and objects.

42
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What is a flashback in storytelling?

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An interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.

43
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What is a master shot?

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A film recording of an entire dramatized scene from a camera angle that keeps all players in view.

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What is a point of view shot?

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A short film scene that shows what a character is looking at, represented through the camera.

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Which film is known for its opening long take sequence lasting about 3½ minutes?

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A Touch of Evil (1958).

46
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What was significant about Orson Welles’ memo regarding ‘Touch of Evil’?

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He claimed the movie was not his version anymore after studio changes.

47
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Fill in the blank: The closer the light source, the _______ it becomes.

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softer

48
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Fill in the blank: The larger the light source, the _______ it becomes.

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softer

49
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True or False: A master shot can also serve as an establishing shot.

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True

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