Question: A construction company has a federal contract to build a bridge. Pursuant to federal regulations, the construction company is required to solicit bids from subcontractors to do the stonework. The officer of the construction company accepts an illegal bribe from a stonework company and awards the company a contract with no bidding. The federal government pursues criminal charges against the corporation and the officer. Which of the following is true?
Only the officer is subject to criminal penalties.
Because the officer was acting in the best interests of the company, he did not act criminally.
Both the corporation and the officer are subject to criminal penalties with respect to the illegal bribe.
Only the corporation is subject to criminal penalties.
Answer: Both the corporation and the officer are subject to criminal penalties with respect to the illegal bribe.
Question: What happens when a director is open to improvisation in dialogue delivery by actors?
Answer Options:
The editing process becomes easy for the director.
The spoken exchanges between actors are likely to sound like genuine conversations between people.
The actors will offer fewer variations within shooting several versions of a scene.
The actors will take complete control and responsibility of the mise-en-scène.
Answer: The spoken exchanges between actors are likely to sound like genuine conversations between people.
Question: At a fancy smancy party, you are asked to explain the meaning of a “proxy.” Your answer is which of the following?
A type of preferred stock.
A voting trust.
Designating an individual to vote on behalf of a shareholder.
A board of directors vote.
Answer: Designating an individual to vote on behalf of a shareholder.
Question: The scenery, the props, the actors, and their costumes are all part of what?
Answer Options:
cinematography
mise-en-scène
editing
background score
Answer: mise-en-scène
Question: In 1926, what reason did Jack Warner give for why he thought talkies would never succeed?
Answer Options:
Talkies made film too inconvenient to where no one would want the picture.
Silent films had a visual language that transcended the spoken word.
Talkies required too much effort from the audience to invest meaning into the dialogue.
Answer: Silent films had a visual language that transcended the spoken word.
Question: A construction company has a federal contract to build a bridge. Pursuant to federal regulations, the construction company is required to solicit bids from subcontractors to do the stonework. The officer of the construction company…
Only the officer is subject to criminal penalties.
Because the officer was acting in the best interests of the company, he did not act criminally.
Both the corporation and the officer are subject to criminal penalties with respect to the illegal bribe.
Only the corporation is subject to criminal penalties.
Answer: Both the corporation and the officer are subject to criminal penalties with respect to the illegal bribe.
Question: What is the term used to describe live sound recorded when the camera is not filming and for which perfect synchronization is unnecessary?
Answer Options:
Dubby
Sensorround
wild sound
scratch track
Answer: wild sound
Question: Danny Boyle’s work, which includes films such as Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, and 28 Days Later, illustrates that the:
Answer Options:
producer of a film is its true auteur.
auteur theory is not always a perfect form for analyzing films.
key to becoming an auteur is to stick to a particular genre.
distinguishable personality aspect of the auteur theory holds true in all situations.
Answer: auteur theory is not always a perfect form for analyzing films.
Question: With respect to the board of directors, a quorum means which of the following?
Answer Options:
Every director is present.
A voting trust is in effect.
A minimum amount of directors necessary for a vote to be binding are in attendance.
The shareholders have voted by proxy.
Answer: A minimum amount of directors necessary for a vote to be binding are in attendance.
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
Answer: wipe
Question: A quorum with respect to a board of directors meeting means which of the following?
The total amount of directors.
The minimum number of directors necessary to vote for a resolution to be binding.
Answer: The minimum number of directors necessary to vote for a resolution to be binding.
Question: Which of the following editing techniques helps keep screen direction constant?
Answer Options:
Matching on action
The 180-degree rule
The Kuleshov effect
The shot/reverse shot pattern
Answer: The 180-degree rule
Question: Which of the following is true of the film movement known as German Expressionism?
Answer Options:
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: Which of the following is NOT one of the three basic reasons to use dialogue in movies?
Answer Options:
To further the development of the plot.
To enhance characterization.
To repeat in words what is already obvious in the action.
To establish information the audience needs to know.
Answer: To repeat in words what is already obvious in the action.
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 Options:
D. W. Griffith
Dorothy Arzner
Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Spielberg
Answer: D. W. Griffith
Question: Actors’ improvisation is more common in which genre of film?
Answer: Comedy
Question: A corporation owns a rental property adjacent to the ocean. 24/7, there is a manager who is responsible for closing a gate to prevent flooding water from penetrating the rental property. One manager is often late to work or inattentive fails to close the gate when required causing damage to many tenants. Which of the following is true?
Nobody is responsible for the damage because the tenant assumed the risk by living close to the ocean.
Because the manager was negligent in failing to close the gate, only the manager is responsible for the damage.
Because the corporation is the owner of the rental property, only the corporation is responsible for any damage.
The director and officer responsible for supervising the manager may be personally liable for the damage.
Answer: Because the corporation is the owner of the rental property, only the corporation is responsible for any damage.
Question: Actors’ improvisation is more common in which genre of film?
Answer Options:
drama
comedy
science fiction
other
Answer: comedy
Question: At which stage of the process of filmmaking does editing primarily take place?
Answer Options:
pre-production
shooting
post-production
distribution
Answer: post-production
Question: Method actors draw upon which primary source for their roles?
Answer Options:
their director’s imagination
their own experiences
other actors’ performances
their scriptwriter’s vision of the role
Answer: their own experiences