Question: In what decade did digital sound come into use in movies?
Answer Choices:
The 1990s
The 1980s
The 1970s
The 1950s
Answer: The 1990s
Question: What is the most important role of a film critic?
Answer Choices:
To reflect the community’s tastes in movies.
To provide the final judgment about movies.
To kick off the conversation about movies.
To advertise or publicize movies.
Answer: To kick off the conversation about movies.
Question: Which kind of film is most likely to use high-key lighting?
Answer Choices:
a horror film
a mystery
a psychological thriller
a comedy
Answer: a comedy
Question: Which of the following terms is used to describe the process of issuing a public invitation for people to try out for roles in films rather than casting directors contacting actors’ agents about available roles?
Answer Choices:
open casting
typecasting
headhunting
public outsourcing
Answer: open casting
Question: Which critic is best known for opposing the auteur theory?
Answer Choices:
Michael Bay
François Truffaut
Andrew Sarris
Pauline Kael
Answer: Pauline Kael
Question: Vanessa starts her new job as a marketing strategist for Orion Food and Beverage today. As part of her orientation, she is told to study the position duties on her own, and she uses an online training manual to familiarize herself with company processes. What kind of employee training method is Vanessa most likely engaged in?
Answer Choices:
film and classroom
simulation
webstule
demonstration
Answer: webstule
Question: Which of the following editing transitions involves a circle or rectangle closing down on a picture from the outer edges of the screen until the image is black?
Answer Choices:
jump cut
iris
dissolve
direct cut
Answer: iris
Question: Which of the following questions is part of the “truth test” for evaluating films?
Answer Choices:
Is the film realistic?
Are the characters believable?
Is the film true to itself?
Is the film based on true events?
Answer: Is the film true to itself?
Question: Which of the following is true of the differences between film acting and stage acting?
Answer Choices:
Film acting is generally considered more intimate
Film acting is generally less subtle
Film actors must play to the back row
Film actors must adjust for different points of view
Answer: Film acting is generally considered more intimate
Question: Surrealistic fight scenes in such films as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, and The Matrix rely on what editing technique?
Answer Choices:
jump cut
parallel editing
slow motion and freeze frame
fast frame
Answer: slow motion and freeze frame
Question: Which of the following is true of the film movement known as German Expressionism?
Answer Choices:
It was not popular with average moviegoers when used in its most intense form.
It included plots about how films would be made, which were called “the Vows of chastity.”
It was first adapted to film after World War II.
Answer: It was not popular with average moviegoers when used in its most intense form.
Question: Actors’ improvisation is more common in which genre of film?
Answer: Comedy
Question: A good film critic is likely to do which of the following?
Answer Choices:
Examine a film on many levels.
Rely on personal impressions.
Express opinions.
Make superficial observations.
Answer: Examine a film on many levels.
Question: What is the term used to describe the practice of a character narrating the action in a film to help the audience understand what is going on?
Answer Choices:
Sensorimundi
monaural sound
voiceover
walla
Answer: voiceover
Question: Actors frequently identify which of the following as the most desirable quality in a director?
Answer Choices:
that the director controls them
that the director makes them feel safe
that the director defers to their wishes
that the director imposes strict discipline
Answer: that the director makes them feel safe
Question: Which of the following is true of the auteur theory?
Answer Choices:
It posits that the producer is the author of a film.
It posits that the director is the author of a film.
It posits that the cinematographer and editor co-author a film.
It posits that there is no true author of a film.
Answer: It posits that the director is the author of a film.
Question: Film genres change over time because:
Answer Choices:
directors forget the original conventions.
new films add to and expand our ideas of the genre.
different actors are used.
new lighting techniques have been discovered.
Answer: new films add to and expand our ideas of the genre.