Which of the following would be considered a film's use of form?
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The use of dramatic lighting to convey a madman's tortured psyche in a slasher film.
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The formal differences and similarities among various works of art lead to questions about how:
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the respective forms shape our emotional and intellectual responses to the subject matter.
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Once a narrative begins, expectations make viewers ask questions about:
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the story's outcome.
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Which of the following demonstrates how various forms transform the representation of content?
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Different directors each employ their different styles to depict the same story and characters.
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In comparing Black Hawk Down with a historical account of the U.S. military action that movie represents, such an analysis would concentrate:
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primarily on issues of adapting the real-life event to the screen.
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Rather than being separate entities that come together to produce art, form and content are instead:
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2 interrelated aspects of the entire formal system of a work of art
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Screenwriters often organize narrative structure around the viewer's:
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desire to learn the answers to important questions.
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Alfred Hitchcock's term "MacGuffin" refers to:
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an object, document, or secret within a story that is of vital importance to the characters and thus motivates their actions.
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Why is the stolen $40,000 in Psycho considered a MacGuffin?
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Because eventually it is of no real importance in the movie.
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How do patterns operate in the chase scene in D. W. Griffith's Way Down East?
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Parallel editing is used to make different lines of action appear to be occurring simultaneously.
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Why is light the essential ingredient for movies?
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Movie images are made when a camera lens focuses light onto film stock.
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In what way does The Silence of the Lambs use patterns in the scene of an FBI team preparing to storm a house?
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A specific editing pattern used throughout the film is at first employed and then broken, thus thwarting viewer expectations.
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Which of the following is NOT one of the functions of narrative patterns?
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Preventing the audience from identifying with the characters.
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Which of the following demonstrates the way patterns can be broken for dramatic and expressive purposes?
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A succession of close-ups is followed by a wide-angle shot of a desolate landscape
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Which of the following can NOT be evoked from the manipulation of light on film?
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Editing
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How does lighting function in the scene between Tom, Casy, and Muley in The Grapes of Wrath?
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It contrasts the dark background and Muley's haunted face, which is illuminated by a flickering candle, thus revealing the despairing state of mind of the characters.
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In terms of their role in movies, what is the difference between light and lighting?
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Light is responsible for the image we see on the screen; lighting is responsible for significant effects in each shot or scene.
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Which of the following is NOT one of the ways lighting can work with other elements in a shot?
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Becoming them.
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Which of the following does NOT demonstrate the way lighting can work with other cinematic elements?
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Soft lighting appears halfway through a long scene.
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How do movies appear to be moving?
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By creating a quick succession of twenty-four individual still photographs per second.
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Which of the following accurately describes the perceptual phenomenon known as persistence of vision?
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The process by which the human brain retains an image for a fraction of a second longer than the eye records it.
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How has advanced cinematic technology complicated movies' reliance on illusion of movement?
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It hasn't; even the most special effects-dependent movies rely on the illusion of movement.
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How do movies use the elements of time and space?
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Movies manipulate both space and time.
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On the movie screen, how do space and time relate to one another?
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Space and time are relative to each other.
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Which of the following does NOT demonstrate the movie principles of "dynamization of space" and/or "spatialization of time"?
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A live, theatrical drama is presented in which scenes play out on a single set meant to depict a city police station.
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If a character in a movie scene were to drop out of the frame, a viewer would most likely interpret this to mean that the character was:
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moving to another part of the established space.
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Which of the following constitutes one of the main differences between the camera eye and the human eye?
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The camera eye is more selective in its view than is the human eye because it is able to frame its image and widen and foreshorten space.
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Why would movies be largely incomprehensible if we didn't automatically identify with the camera lens?
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Because the startling movements of the camera through space would appear to have no connection to the way we actually see.
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In film theory, what does the concept "mediation" mean?
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The process by which an agent, structure, or other formal element transfers something from one place to another.
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How is cinema's ability to manipulate space effectively demonstrated in the cabin-on-the-edge-of-a-cliff sequence in The Gold Rush?
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Suspense is created because individual shots have been edited together to create the illusion that they form part of a complete space.
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How does the baptism scene from The Godfather give the sense that different actions in locations are occurring simultaneously?
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By the continuity of particular actions, dialogue, and music.
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The climactic gunfight in The Killer demonstrates how cinema:
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extends time within scenes.
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Which of the following is an example of cinematic manipulation of space?
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The clever editing of sequence to make it appear as if all shots were taken in the same room when really they were not
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Which of the following is an example of cinematic manipulation of time?
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The extension of various shots so that a scene's screen duration becomes longer than the purported time of its events.
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Which of the following is NOT a way in which movies can manipulate time?
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2. Magnifying a minute detail within a landscape.
3. Presenting events from multiple perspectives and memories.
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Why do director John Woo and editor Kung Ming Fan alternate between elegant slow motion and bursts of fast motion in capturing violent gun battles in The Killer?
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To give their fight scenes a dizzying kinetic energy.
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What is a freeze-frame?
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A still image shown onscreen for a period of time.
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Which of the following helped inspire the first motion pictures?
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The realist impulse of the visual arts.
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Antirealism is defined as an interest in or concern for:
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the abstract, speculative, or fantastic.
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The French filmmaker(s) who established the realistic direction of cinema was (were) _____, while the French filmmaker(s) who established the antirealistic direction of cinema was (were) _____.
