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Question 1

What is content?

Answer 1

The information that is being relayed

Question 2

What is form?

Answer 2

The method in which information is being relayed

Question 3

Are form and content separable?

Answer 3

TL;DR: No, they play compliment each other

Question 4

What’s a MacGuffin?

Answer 4

An item in a movie that is portrayed as important but in actuality it is not very relevant

Question 5

What abstract elements of film can shape our expectations?

Answer 5

Color schemes, sounds, shot length, and camera movement

Question 6

What’s parallel editing?

Answer 6

An editing technique that cuts between two or more lines of action that occur simultaneously

Question 7

What are some fundamental aspects of cinematic language and film form?

Answer 7

Light, movement, and the manipulation of space and time

Question 8

What’s cinematic language?

Answer 8

The ways filmmakers use form to communicate with the audience

Question 9

What’s realism?

Answer 9

An approach at filmmaking through naturalistic performances and processes

Question 10

What’s antirealism?

Answer 10

An approach to film about foreign and anti-natural worlds through naturalistic performances and processes

Question 11

Formalism

Answer 11

A style in which form is conspicuously expressive as opposed to naturalism’s unobtrusive form

Question 12

What is mise-en-scene?

Answer 12

Everything on the scene- costumes, set design, items, etc

Question 13

Which member of the crew finds and selects props?

Answer 13

Prop master

Question 14

Which of these filmmaking rules is the result of our minds’ seeking equilibrium and order?

Answer 14

The rule of thirds

Question 15

What are prosthetics?

Answer 15

Synthetic Materials attached to an actor’s face or body

Question 16

The level of illumination on a subject, as compared with the depth of the corresponding shadow, is called its lighting _______

Answer 16

Ratio

Question 17

Whats the difference between low-key and high-key lighting?

Answer 17

Low key lighting has high contrasting shadows whereas high key lighting has low contrasting shadows

Question 18

Props, decor, costumes, and the setting are all elements off ….

Answer 18

Mise-en-scene or Design

Question 19

Which member of the crew works closely with the director to make decisions that determine a film’s mise-en-scène?

Answer 19

The production designer

Question 20

What are 3 points of lighting?

Answer 20

Rim, fill, and key

Question 21

In film, _______ indicates the recurrence of a story segment, signifying narrative patterns

Answer 21

Repetition

Question 22

What are the parts of basic narrative structure?

Answer 22

Setup, inciting incident, rising action, crisis, climax, and resolution

Question 23

What type of narrator already knows the story of the film?

Answer 23

An omniscient narrator

Question 24

What is a movie’s story?

Answer 24

All the narrative events that are shown on screen and all the events that are implicit

Question 25

What is a movie's plot?

Answer 25

The specific actions and events that filmmakers show and the order in which those events are arranged

Question 26

What are some basic types of characters?

Answer 26

Protagonist, antagonist, and antihero

Question 27

What is a round character?

Answer 27

A round character is complicated and changes over the course of the film narrative.

Question 28

What is a flat character?

Answer 28

A flat character is relatively simple and does not fundamentally change over the course of the film narrative.

Question 29

Whats plot duration?

Answer 29

The elapsed time the film explicitly shows us

Question 30

Whats story duration?

Answer 30

How long it takes for the story to occur

Question 31

Whats screen duration?

Answer 31

The movie's running time

Question 32

Which member of the camera crew is responsible for putting the film stock in the camera?

Answer 32

The loader

Question 33

What is it called when filmmakers digitally alter colors using software?

Answer 33

Color grading

Question 34

What are special effects?

Answer 34

Any effect that can be generated on set and photographed by the camera

Question 35

What are visual effects?

Answer 35

Any effect created and integrated using computers in postproduction

Question 36

What is a miniature?

Answer 36

A small scale model that stands for large structures, landforms, or objects

Question 37

How do you speed up/How do you slow down film?

Answer 37

By slowing the frame rate when shooting/By increasing frame rate when shooting

Question 38

What do telephoto lens accomplish?

Answer 38

They flatten the appearance of depth and low down the appearance of movement due to depth

Question 39

At what frame rate are most movies shot and projected?

Answer 39

24 frames per second

Question 40

Whats the difference between a pan and a tilt?

Answer 40

Pans are horizontal camera movements and tilts are vertical camera movements

Question 41

What term is used to describe how sensitive film stock is to light?

Answer 41

Film speed

Question 42

What term is used to describe an actor's looks and actions in relation to the character they play?

Answer 42

Appropriateness

Question 43

What are chameleon actors?

Answer 43

Those who blend into roles and are at times difficult to recognize in between movies

Question 44

What is it called when an actor plays a role that contrasts their usual roles?

Answer 44

Playing against persona

Question 45

What is the style of acting popularized by Konstantin Stanislavsky and his students?

Answer 45

Method acting

Question 46

Who (besides Konstantin) helped spread method acting?

Answer 46

Elia Kazan and Stella Adler

Question 47

What is used to soundproof cameras?

Answer 47

Blimps

Question 48

What's a 4th wall break?

Answer 48

When the audience is directly addressed

Question 49

What is expressive coherence?

Answer 49

The measure of whether an actor has created a characterization that hangs together

Question 50

What is inherent thoughtfulness?

Answer 50

Whether an actor portrays a credible inner life for the character

Question 51

What are animatics?

Answer 51

Sequenced storyboard images with sound that depict the planned film segment

Question 52

What is an ellipsis?

Answer 52

When films have gaps in between them for the audience to fill in

Question 53

What strategy does the director use when shooting the same action of a scene using multiple angles and shot types?

Answer 53

Coverage

Question 54

What do split screens do?

Answer 54

Depict one or more simultaneous actions in a conspicuous way

Question 55

Meaning in movies is often created through the ____ of individual shots

Answer 55

Juxtaposition

Question 56

What is a master shot?

Answer 56

A take that shows the scene's setting and characters in overview

Question 57

What are the primary functions of editing?

Answer 57

Create meaning through juxtaposition, establish and control shot duration/pace/rhythm, organize fragmented actions and events, create spatial relationships between shots, and create temporal relationships between shots

Question 58

What is a shot/reverse shot?

Answer 58

When characters are framed in turn and the camera depicts the speaker/listener back to back as the conversation takes place

Question 59

What are some techniques used in continuity editing?

Answer 59

The 180-degree rule, match-on-action cuts, and eyeline match cuts

Question 60

What is discontinuity editing?

Answer 60

Editing that purposefully calls attention to itself

Question 61

What is continuity editing?

Answer 61

Editing that attempts to be invisible