Film Class Final Exam

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A narrative description of the film as the author "sees" it is called

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Film treatment

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Three basic elements in the construction of the shooting script

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Shot, scene, sequence

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What are the modes of response?(2)

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Objectivity, Subjectivity.

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What appears before the eye

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Objectivity (analysis)

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What appears beyond the eye

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Subjectivity(interpretation)

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How film differs from other arts:(5)

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1. A community art
2.Reliance on technology
3. Reliance on economic success
4. Art form of 20th century
5.no instant feedback

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Factors in creating the illusion of motion in motion pictures(3)

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1.Phase pictures (frame)
2. Intermittent Motion
3.Persistance of vision -

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Persistance of vision is?

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Ability of the retina of the eye to retain an image for a fraction of a second after the object has disapeared.

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What is a film experience a question of?

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Emotional response.

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Four major stages of work in doing a film are(4)

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1.Pre-production planning
2. production
3. Post-production
4. Distribution / exhibition

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What is production?

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That period of time when we re actually shooting the film.

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Five "legs" of film making

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1. Script
2. Camera
3. Sound
4. director
5. editing

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Treatments for firlms include (4 things)

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1.Discription of major characters in depth
2. plot outline
3. discription of the major sequences
4. writers comments on the film

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Two steps in writing for film

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1.Treatment
2. Shooting script

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What is plot?

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The action of the film, the ecents, what happens.

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What is Theme?

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the meaning; authors message; idea

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Shooting scripts include:(3)

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1. Character descriptions
2. setting
3. dialogue

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Script breakdown(3)

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1.Needs list (personnel, physical)
2. Shooting schedule
3. Budget

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What is the visual composition of film?(3)

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1. Placement of people within the frame
2. Movement of people within the frame
3. movement of frame itself

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What is the writers job?

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To develope characters and progress the plot

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Major function of the director?

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Visual composition

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Types of film stock

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Fast film (very sensitive to light)
Slow film (less sensitive to light

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Differences in film stock (4)

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1.size
2. type
3. grain content
4. contrast

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terms / concepts for the Shooting Procedure (4)

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1. Single camera
2. Multiple takes
3. shooting out of sequence
4. acting problems

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Types of acting problems (3)

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1. repition of performance
2. performing in small bit of time
3. out of sequence

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What is a take?

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a single attempt to photograph a shot, take number indicates the number of times we have photographed the same scene

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Reasons of multiple takes (2)

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1. acting problems
2. technicle problems

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Properties of fast film (5)

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1. higher ASA number
2. more sensitive to light
3. needs less light for exposure
4. composed of larger grains
5. has a low capacity to show contrasts

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Two types of lighting?

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1. Natural
2. Artificial

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Elements of lighting (3)

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1.Intensity = quantity
2. character =quality
3. Direction

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What is the major reponsibility of the cinematographer

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Lighting

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Where are films made? (2)

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1.Studio (sound stage, backlot)
2.on location (exterior, interior)

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Most efficient place to shoot a film?

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The Studio

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Sound that is recorded in sync
(2)

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1.dialogue
2. SFX

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sound that is recorded post-sync (3)

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1. dialoge
2. SFX
3. Music

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Sound that is mixed in later (3)

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1.Lip sync
2. SFX
3. Music

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Where sound FX come from (4)

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1.Sync sound
2. created as wild sound
3. purchase them
4. create own sounds

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Music in films are (2)

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1. pre exhisting music
2. original composition

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Film seasons are: 2

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1. summer season
2. holiday season

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Types of film distribution 2

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1.Theatrical
2. Non- theatrical

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Types of theatrical distribution 4

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1.Road show
2. first run
3. second run
4. Saturation

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Types of non theatrical distribution 2

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1. dvd / cassette
2. television