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: What is the correct technical name for the music that plays in the background of a scene while the action takes place?
Answer Choices:
The score
The soundtrack
The orchestration
The sound design
Answer: The score
Question: Continuity editing is designed to preserve what illusion in the minds of the audience?
Answer Options:
That the world of the film is continuous in the real world
That a new scene is beginning with every new cut
That everything is taking place in a continuous time and space
That a story’s ending is a continuation of its beginning and middle
Correct Answer:
3. That everything is taking place in a continuous time and space
Answer Choices:
That the world of the film is continuous in the real world
That a new scene is beginning with every new cut
That everything is taking place in a continuous time and space
That a story’s ending is a continuation of its beginning and middle
Answer: 3. That everything is taking place in a continuous time and space
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: 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: According to screenwriting consultant John Truby, why are genre films generally favored by American studios?
Answer Choices:
Genre films present an original artistic vision.
Genre films provide more reliable profits.
Genre films are less predictable than individual artistic visions.
Genre films do not tell the audience up front what to expect.
Answer: Genre films provide more reliable profits.
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: At which stage of the process of filmmaking does editing primarily take place?
Answer Options:
Pre-production
Shooting
Post-production
Distribution
Correct Answer:
3. Post-production
Answer Choices:
Pre-production
Shooting
Post-production
Distribution
Answer: 3. Post-production
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 involved purposely distorted sets and images to convey a psychological feeling or attitude?
Answer Choices:
Dogme 95
German Expressionism
Italian Neorealism
French New Wave
Answer: German Expressionism
Question: Which of the following films might be considered an example of how westerns branched out beyond their traditional trappings while remaining true to the spirit of the genre?
Answer Choices:
Dances With Wolves
The Covered Wagon
Ramona Must Die
The Public Enemy
Answer: Dances With Wolves
Question: Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein promoted which ideas about editing?
Answer: The montage theory
Question: Actors’ improvisation is more common in which genre of film?
Answer Choices:
drama
comedy
science fiction
other
Answer: comedy
Question: Every piece of a movie’s mise-en-scène is controlled, chosen, or approved by whom?
Answer Choices:
director
set designer
executive producer
actors
Answer: director
Question: In which of the following auteur films are you most likely to encounter gritty urban subject matter?
Answer Options:
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Ingmar Bergman
Tim Burton
Correct Answer:
Martin Scorsese
Answer Choices:
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Ingmar Bergman
Tim Burton
Answer: Martin Scorsese
Question: Into which genre might you categorize a film that includes a rugged landscape against which a lone hero must uphold the law against unchecked elements?
Answer Choices:
science fiction
western
Answer: western
Question: In which auteur’s films are you most likely to encounter gritty, urban subject matter?
Answer Choices:
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Ingmar Bergman
Nicole Holofcener
Answer: Martin Scorsese
Question: What is the best definition of a take in a film?
Answer Options:
The length of coverage captured by the lens
One of several versions of a shot recorded by a camera
One still image lasting 1/24th or 1/30th of a second of screen time
The number of characters appearing in a shot
Correct Answer:
2. One of several versions of a shot recorded by a camera
Answer Choices:
The length of coverage captured by the lens
One of several versions of a shot recorded by a camera
One still image lasting 1/24th or 1/30th of a second of screen time
The number of characters appearing in a shot
Answer: 2. One of several versions of a shot recorded by a camera
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 Choices:
Dubby
Sensorround
wild sound
scratch track
Answer: wild sound
Question: Which of the following leads to the deepest appreciation of a film?
Answer Choices:
Turning off your brain completely and letting the pictures roll away.
Paying attention to what a film is trying to say.
Learning the technical names of a film’s elements.
Learning the roles of the technicians who work on a film.
Answer: Paying attention to what a film is trying to say.
Question: Which of the following is the primary role of actors in movies?
Answer Choices:
writing the script
directing the film
bringing a written character to life
coordinating the mise-en-scène of the film
Answer: bringing a written character to life