Question: What is the type of transition between two shots in which one shot is pushed off the screen by another shot, typically from side to side, top to bottom, or diagonally?
Answer Options:
Jump cut
Fade in
Dissolve
Wipe
Correct Answer:
4. Wipe
Answer Choices:
Jump cut
Fade in
Dissolve
Wipe
Answer: 4. Wipe
Question: Which of the following is primarily responsible for placing individual shots and scenes together in coherent form?
Answer Choices:
Screenwriter.
Cinematographer.
Director.
Answer: Director.
Question: Which of the following is true of the film movement known as German Expressionism?
A) It was not popular with average moviegoers when used in its most intense form.
B) It included rules about how films would be made, which were called the “laws of industry.”
C) It was first adapted to film after World War II.
D) It opposed the use of heavily controlled studio looks in films.
Answer: A) It was not popular with average moviegoers when used in its most intense form.
Question: To put the audience on the same level as the characters, most scenes are shot horizontally at what level?
Answer Choices:
eye level
waist level
ground level
horizon level
Answer: eye level
Question: Why are there fewer professional film critics in print media now than there once were?
Answer Choices:
The internet has made them unnecessary.
There are fewer movies being made.
Movies are becoming less popular with wide audiences.
Media outlets are increasingly hiring web service critics.
Answer: Media outlets are increasingly hiring web service critics.
Question: What is the type of transition between two shots in which one shot is pushed off the screen by another shot, typically from side to side, top to bottom, or diagonally?
Answer Choices:
jump cut
fade in
dissolve
wipe
Answer: wipe
Question: Which of the following films is an example of the classic “screwball comedy”?
Answer Choices:
City Lights.
Bringing Up Baby.
Annie Hall.
Answer: Bringing Up Baby.
Question: Which director is credited with largely setting the stage for what we think of as the modern film director?
Answer Choices:
D.W. Griffith
Orson Welles
Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Spielberg
Answer: D.W. Griffith
Question: Why was The Birth of a Nation such a controversial film, in spite of its technical brilliance?
Answer Choices:
It is deeply critical of the United States.
It tells a story tinged with racism.
It advocates communism.
It is sexually explicit.
Answer: It tells a story tinged with racism.
Question: Which of the following tasks is part of the process of film editing but not part of the process of book editing?
Answer Choices:
Ensuring that the story makes sense.
Making sure one section logically follows another.
Helping to construct the work itself.
Determining that the work holds together as a whole.
Answer: Helping to construct the work itself.
Question: Italian Neorealism as a film movement rejected the use of:
Answer Choices:
carefully designed movie studio settings to add glamour to films.
tripods and camera dollies whenever possible.
non-professional actors to play significant characters in their films.
Answer: carefully designed movie studio settings to add glamour to films.
Question: Which of the following is true of the studio-based star system?
Answer Choices:
It encouraged actors to be themselves in public.
It publicized every detail of actors’ private lives.
It did not require studios to rely on the popularity of stars for their success.
It was largely abandoned by the 1960s.
Answer: It was largely abandoned by the 1960s.
Question: Which of the following is usually true of the scenes in which film actors perform?
Answer Choices:
Scenes are performed and shot in sequence.
Different camera angles are shot simultaneously with multiple cameras.
Multiple versions of each scene are shot.
Actors must improvise their lines.
Answer: Multiple versions of each scene are shot.
Question: Which director is credited largely with setting the stage for what we think of as the modern film director, as well as the modern film itself?
Answer Choices:
D. W. Griffith
Dorothy Arzner
Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Spielberg
Answer: D. W. Griffith
Question: In place of dialogue, what did movies in the Silent Era use to show the words a character is speaking?
Answer Choices:
Title cards
A narrator
Subtitles
Musical cues
Answer: Title cards
Additional Answer Corrections
For questions where the correct answers are not explicitly listed, here are the corrected answers based on usual film study knowledge:
Question: According to John Truby, why are genre films generally favored by American studios?
Answer Choices:
They are less expensive to make.
They provide more reliable profits.
They contribute more individual artistic visions.
They are risky investments, but can yield big profits.
Answer: They provide more reliable profits.
Question: At which stage of the process of filmmaking does editing primarily take place?
Answer Choices:
pre-production
shooting
post-production
distribution
Answer: post-production
Question: A finished film is best understood as the personal vision of which of the following?
Answer Choices:
A screenwriter.
A cinematographer.
An editor.
A director.
Answer: A director.
Question: Which of the following methods contribute on-the-job training methods?
Answer Choices:
demonstration; apprenticeship; and sink-or-swim
simulation; film and classroom; and vestibule
demonstration; film and classroom; and sink-or-swim
sink-or-swim; vestibule; and apprenticeship
Answer: demonstration; apprenticeship; and sink-or-swim