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1
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True or False: The camera functions as both a recording device and a stylistic device?

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True

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True or False: Classical Hollywood narrative relies heavily on explicit causality.

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True

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3
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True or False: Editing is not considered a visual effect.

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False

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4
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Digital motion control systems arrived with:

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Star Wars

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5
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The average separation between our eyes or interocular distance is:

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65mm

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6
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Emigre directors include:

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Peter Weir

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7
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Early short films that focused on everyday life and did not assume a narrative format were called:

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Actualities

Auguste and Louis Lumiere 1895

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In aerial image printing, an image is projected to a:

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Focal plane in space

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9
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This format has emerged as the standard for high-definition DVD

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Blu-ray

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True or False: In digital composting, each pixel is allocated 6 channels.

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False

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11
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True or False: Audiovisual design of a film falls within the domain of the scriptwriter.

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False

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True or False: The Auteurist Theory asserts that films are a medium of personal expression, and filmmakers leave a recognizable stylistic signature on their work.

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True

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13
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True or False: Sundance is considered the key festival for independent cinema.

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True

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14
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This mode of screen reality is most closely associated with technological advancements in film:

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Fantasy

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True or False: Left-wing socio-political criticism is much less common in the U.S. than it is in Europe.

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True

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True or False: A convention has evolved of treating the director of a film as the author.

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True

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True or False: A Major must both produce films and distribute films nationally and internationally.

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True

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18
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Judged by box-office receipt, the most popular filmmaker in the world is:

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Stephen Spielberg.

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19
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In digital compositing, the Z-axis refers to:

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The depth axis in the image along which objects are arranged.

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True or False: Before the 1940s there were no African American production companies.

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False

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21
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A disadvantage of using an Optical Printer is

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The generational loss of image quality.

22
Q

This mode of screen reality utilizes reportage with interspersed fictional recreations and stylized editing

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Visual poetry

23
Q

True or False: Film noir is a clearly defined genre and not a visual style.

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False

24
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True or False: The relationship between movies and society is explored in Ideological film theory.

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True

25
Q

Which of the following is a negative cost?

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All of the following: film printing, costumes, director’s points

26
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In this genre of film the hero represents a perverse version of the American myth of success

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Gangster

27
Q

This genre of film attempts to explain why violence is necessary for the preservation of community:

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Western

28
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True or False: Motion control systems did not become available until the late 1940s.

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True

29
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In animation, motion perspective is achieved utilizing a

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Multiplane camera

30
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True or False: The roots of Expressionism are found in the cinema of 1920s Russia

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False

31
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A small 3D sculpture that forms the basis for subsequent digital animation of a creature is called a

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Maquette

32
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True or False: In order for a film to be considered a Blockbuster it must utilize considerable ancillary marketing.

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True

33
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True or False: Social correspondences play a major role in Cognitive Theory.

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True

34
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True or False: The average cost of a Major film production now hovers upward of $100 million.

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True

35
Q

`What 1993 Blockbuster showed the industry the financial and creative potential of digital effects?

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Jurassic Park

36
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True or False: How a story is told is as important as its content.

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True

37
Q

Most traveling matte processes used colored light because it can

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Act as a filter to block or transmit light.

38
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True or False: Documentary Realism is purely objective form.

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False

39
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True or False: Profit Participants can expect to receive (their share of) anywhere between 40%-60% of the gross.

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False

40
Q

This depends on withholding information from viewers:

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Surprise

41
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True or False: In the last several decades, independent distributors have released more films than the majors.

A

True

42
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This mode of screen reality utilizes the camera as an instrument of reportage

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Documentary Realism

43
Q

True or False: Painting scenery on glass to create complex visual effect shots started in the 1950s.

A

False

44
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According to the Cognitive Theory studies cited in the text, very young children are likely to judge a character as good or bad, depending on

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Whether a character looks attractive or ugly

45
Q

This 1915 film established the basic gallery of black stereotypes that Hollywood film would perpetuate for the next 40 years

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Birth of a Nation

46
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True or False: Surprisingly, women were well represented as directors under the golden age of Hollywood.

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False

47
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True or False: Ideological conglomeration is most common in the films of Hollywood.

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True

48
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True or False: The Western as a cultural category predates the cinema category.

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True

49
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This genre was heavily influenced by German Expressionism using low-key lighting and exaggerated camera angles.

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Film Noir

50
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True or False: Filmmakers can influence and control a viewer’s evaluation of a film.

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False

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