Quiz questions 1-3 Flashcards
Recognizing a viewer’s tendency to identify subconsciously with the camera’s viewpoint, early filmmaking pioneers created a _________________________ (two words) that draws upon the way we automatically interpret visual information in our real lives, thus allowing audiences to absorb movie meaning intuitively—and instantly.
Cinematic language
Shot is best defined as
an unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of a motion-picture camera.
The “invisibility” of meaning in movies is largely due to
their rapidly and constantly changing images not giving the viewer time to contemplate them
One of the most common editing techniques designed to hide the instantaneous and potentially jarring shift from one camera viewpoint to another is
cutting on action
In terms of categorizing movies, the term “narrative” simply means that a film’s story is ______________________.
fictional
According to the text, _________________________________ (two words) “dissects the complex synthesis of cinematography, sound, composition, design, movement, and editing orchestrated” by those who create a film.
formal analysis
Direct cinema _______________ and _____________.
limits the use of narrators; allows the audience to observe events as they occur
Documentary filmmaking, which uses actual people, places, and events as source material, is described by John Grierson as
a creative treatment of actuality
Experimental films frequently reflect the creative vision of a single artist. These films
invite individual interpretation
Hybrid films illustrate
the flexibility of film form by blurring boundaries of film categorization.
Nanook of the North, which presents people and place in a straightforward manner, is an example of
a factual documentary
The founding purpose of the persuasive documentary was to
address social injustice
The three major types of movies are
narrative experimental and documentary
Which of the following distinguishes narrative films from other kinds of movies?
narrative films are directed towards fiction
Which of the following is NOT a branch of documentary filmmaking?
demonstrative
