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: Beyond setting up shots and other technical work, what is perhaps a director’s most important job?
Answer Choices:
financing the film
distributing the film
coaxing good performances from actors
promoting the film during public appearances
Answer: coaxing good performances from actors
Question: Why do silent films often seem to move faster than modern sound films?
Answer Choices:
Because filmmakers wanted to squeeze more action into less film.
Because they generally feature quicker cutting than modern films.
Because the rates of shooting and projection were not standardized.
Because audiences expected films to be a lot shorter in those days.
Answer: Because the rates of shooting and projection were not standardized.
Question: Actors’ improvisation is more common in which genre of film?
Answer Choices:
drama
comedy
science fiction
other
Answer: comedy
Question: In 1926, what reason did Jack Warner give for why he thought talkies would never succeed?
Answer Choices:
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: Which of the following is true of the studio-based star system?
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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: What happens when a director is open to improvisation in dialogue delivery by actors?
Answer Choices:
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: In which of the following auteurist films are you most likely to encounter gritty urban subject matter?
Answer Choices:
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Ingmar Bergman
Tim Burton
Answer: Martin Scorsese
Question: Which stylistic movement in film required the directors to follow a set of self-imposed rules to pare filmmaking down to its most basic form?
Answer Choices:
Dogme 95
German Expressionism
Italian Neorealism
French New Wave
Answer: Dogme 95
Question: Actors’ improvisation is more common in which genre of film?
Answer: Comedy
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: 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: Danny Boyle’s work, which includes films such as Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, and 28 Days Later, illustrates that the:
Answer Choices:
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: 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 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