Question: Etheline is taking her first accounting course at Ashford. In the first week, she sees that she will need to create a financial statement and plan a budget. What kind of software will Etheline most likely need in order to create these documents?
Answer Choices:
Spreadsheet software
Presentation software
Word processing software
Editing software
Answer: Spreadsheet software
Question: Which critic is best known for opposing the auteur theory?
Answer Choices:
Roger Ebert
Francois Truffaut
Andrew Sarris
Pauline Kael
Answer: Pauline Kael
Question: Which element of mise en scène is typically designed by the cinematographer?
Answer Choices:
Sets
Lighting
Props
Blocking
Answer: Lighting
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: Catherine goes to her local movie theater only to see romantic comedies. Since Catherine did not go to the movies yesterday, there is not a romantic comedy playing at her local theater.
The reasoning above is flawed because the evidence
Answer Choices:
A. does not suggest that Catherine goes to see every romantic comedy that plays at her local movie theater.
B. implies that Catherine is uninterested in most types of movies.
C. does not indicate whether Catherine watches only romantic comedies at home.
D. suggests that Catherine’s local movie theater hardly ever shows romantic comedies.
Answer: A. does not suggest that Catherine goes to see every romantic comedy that plays at her local movie theater.
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: When the title character of Iron, Lulu, is shown running away from the camera, first at a short distance away and then in the next shot several yards further away, the editor is using what technique?
Answer Choices:
Jump cut
Cross-cut
Fade out
Dissolve
Answer: Jump cut
Question: What is the job of a film’s editor?
Answer Choices:
Putting his or her vision into words.
Choosing and arranging what will actually be in the scene.
Composing various images in the camera.
Choosing shots, their order, and their duration on screen.
Answer: Choosing shots, their order, and their duration on screen.
Question: Actors frequently identify what as the most desirable quality in a director?
Answer Choices:
That the director challenges them.
That the director listens to their wishes.
That the director imposes strict discipline.
Answer: That the director challenges them.
Question: Moving back and forth between shots of a woman tied to railroad tracks and shots of a speeding train elsewhere on the tracks is an example of what editing technique?
Answer Choices:
Parallel editing
Continuity editing
Montage
Shot/reverse shot
Answer: Parallel editing
Question: Of the following, who would be considered a “wild card” or “character actor”?
Answer Choices:
Will Smith
Brad Pitt
George Clooney
William H. Macy
Answer: William H. Macy
Question: Revision and editing are the same thing.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: Which of the following is the best way to describe a director’s style?
Answer Choices:
His or her favorite mise en scène, cinematography, editing, and sound techniques
The habitual way he or she deals with the actors on the set
Typical way he or she deals with producers and other studio executives
His or her preferred subject matter and genre he/she likes to work
Answer: His or her favorite mise en scène, cinematography, editing, and sound techniques
Question: Please choose the best punctuation correction for the sentence below:
The movie starts at 8:30 make sure you’re there before 8:15.
Answer Choices:
The sentence is correct.
8:30, make
8:30. Make
8:30; so
Answer: 8:30; make
Question: The International Data Corporation estimated that in 2011, the equivalent of 200 __________ 60-minute high-definition movies were created.
Answer Choices:
thousand
million
billion
Answer: million
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: 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: Why is there typically a lag time between a movie’s theatrical release and its home video release?
Answer Choices:
DVDs and Blu-rays discs are complicated and expensive to produce.
Theatrical releases make more money than home video releases.
Video releases receive more publicity than theatrical releases.
A theatrical release gives a certain legitimacy to a video release.
Answer: A theatrical release gives a certain legitimacy to a video release.