Quiz 1

Question 1

What are the five important aspects of film shots?

Answer 1

Frames, angles, moves, optics, and composition

Question 2

What is a shot?

Answer 2

A shot is a continuous running if film through a camera for the purpose of capturing some aspect of the story

Question 3

How long is the average shot?

Answer 3

6 seconds

Question 4

What is ELS?

Answer 4

Extreme long shot; big panoramic outdoor setting, people are less important than the location

Question 5

What is LS?

Answer 5

Long shot; establish setting, people scaled, props, rooms, and locations

Question 6

What is MS?

Answer 6

Medium shot; typically two people in the frame, waist up. Character is emphasized

Question 7

What is CU?

Answer 7

Close up; faces, heads, shoulders

Question 8

What is ECU?

Answer 8

Extreme close up; extreme detail

Question 9

Define homage

Answer 9

Something done or given in acknowledgement or consideration of the worth of another

Question 10

Define mise en scene

Answer 10

The process of setting a stage; all the things on the stage; the scene

Question 11

What is a low angle?

Answer 11

Charged with meaning, rendering characters larger than life

Question 12

What is an eye level angle?

Answer 12

No particular meaning, average filming angle

Question 13

Define mimetic

Answer 13

Characterized by imitation or mimicry

Question 14

Define didactic

Answer 14

Instructive

Question 15

What is continuity cutting?

Answer 15

A sequence of events established through cutting; “then”

Question 16

What is parallel cutting?

Answer 16

While this is happening, this is also happening; “meanwhile”

Question 17

What is mise en abyme?

Answer 17

Placement at the center of an escutcheon placed within a smaller copy of the same escutcheon