Final Review (NEW INFO)

Question 1

What does a director do?

Answer 1

Brings a script to life while guiding the technical crew and actors

Question 2

Describe a director’s role in 1930s/40s Hollywood

Answer 2

Hirelings. Worked for studios who choose the script and actors

Question 3

What is an Auteur?

Answer 3

A director with complete creative control. They script, fund, film, and edit a movie. Riskier as they are solely responsible for its outcome. Ex: Orson Welles

Question 4

What % of directors are women?

Answer 4

12.6% (2% in India)

Question 5

What is a Golden Rasberry?

Answer 5

Award for worst director

Question 6

What is a Director’s Cut?

Answer 6

A re-released cut of a film including footage the director felt shouldn’t have been cut

Question 7

What is a shot?

Answer 7

A strip of film produced by a continuous uninterrupted running of the camera

Question 8

What is an objective POV?

Answer 8

The camera is an observer of action, impersonal, and stationery

Question 9

What is a subjective POV?

Answer 9

The camera is part of the action and moves

Question 10

What is an indirect-subjective POV?

Answer 10

Not a participant, but gets close to the action

Question 11

What is a director’s choice POV?

Answer 11

Emphasizes an action using special lenses or angles

Question 12

What are some ways to focus on a subject?

Answer 12

Make it big, only focus on it, highlight it with light/color, frame it with objects/characters in the foreground, use close-ups, use motion

Question 13

What is panning?

Answer 13

Left and right movement of the camera

Question 14

What is tilting?

Answer 14

Up and down movement of the camera

Question 15

What is a dolly shot?

Answer 15

The camera moves backward, forward, or alongside the subject

Question 16

What is a tracking shot?

Answer 16

The camera moves alongside a subject and keeps it in the frame

Question 17

What is a steadicam?

Answer 17

The brand of camera stabilizer was invented by George Brown and introduced in 1975

Question 18

What is a skycam?

Answer 18

A camera that is suspended in by cables and controlled by computers. Used in stadiums.

Question 19

What does shallow focus do?

Answer 19

Create depth

Question 20

What does soft lighting do?

Answer 20

Make images appear flat

Question 21

What does sharp lighting do?

Answer 21

Create depth

Question 22

What is Occlusion?

Answer 22

The intentional obstruction of an object in the background with one in the foreground

Question 23

How is slow motion achieved?

Answer 23

Film is shot at a high frame rate and played back normally

Question 24

How is fast motion achieved?

Answer 24

Film is shot at a low frame rate and played back normally

Question 25

What is a scene?

Answer 25

A series of shots

Question 26

What is a sequence?

Answer 26

A series of scenes

Question 27

What is a daily/rush?

Answer 27

All the raw footage after a day of filming

Question 28

What do opticals do?

Answer 28

Create smooth/clear transitions

Question 29

What is a wipe?

Answer 29

Horizontal or vertical line that moves across the screen and transitions between scenes

Question 30

What is a flip frame?

Answer 30

The frame flips over to a new scene

Question 31

What is fade-in/fade-out transition?

Answer 31

One image fades to black and the next fades into view

Question 32

What is a dissolve transition?

Answer 32

The end of a shot merges with the start of the next

Question 33

What do establishing shots do?

Answer 33

Allows the audience to become familiar with the setting and characters in the scene

Question 34

What is an outside-in establishing shot?

Answer 34

Logical progression. The viewer becomes acquainted with the scene.

Question 35

What is an inside-out establishing shot?

Answer 35

The viewer is disoriented and gradually figures out what is happening as the scene unfolds

Question 36

What are flash cuts?

Answer 36

A short burst of images compressed together

Question 37

What is a jump cut?

Answer 37

A stylistic choice that makes editing visible. Controversial as editing is meant to be seamless

Question 38

What is a match cut?

Answer 38

Seamless transition between separate scenes

Question 39

What are the types of match cuts?

Answer 39

Sound bridge, graphical match cut, match on action