Film Studies I Final Review

horizontal movement of a camera mounted on gyroscopic head of a stationary tripod called? 

Who was the cinematographer on Citizen Kane? 

What are screenwriters responsible for creating?

What word literally means telling a story?

_________ is the amount of time that the implied story in a film takes to occur.

 At its simplest level, a movie’s ________ is the telling of its story.

What do we call a movie’s uninterrupted running time on screen?

4. When a medium long shot (MLS) contains two characters, what do filmmakers call it?

 are actors bear strong physical resemblance to stars & substitute for them during setup times,

What is computer-generated imagery also known?

What is one camera position and everything associated with it called?

The golden age of Hollywood was roughly between which two decades?

Think of narrative movies as ______ and documentary films as ______.

Why do lighting designers use backlight?

 What are the three major types of movies?

21. What do we call a piece of curved, polished glass or other transparent material?

 A ________ is a structure for presenting everything that we see and hear in a film.

The cinematographer makes very specific decisions about how a move is ____________. 

What are the three basic cinematographic properties of a shot called? 

The classes of Hollywood golden age actors are which of the following?

Scenes that are  hazardous or require athletic prowess a __________ in place of a movie star.

  What do filmmakers call a grid representing divides it into horizontal thirds?

The central figure of a story is often referred to as the hero, may not necessarily be a hero?

The five parts of dramatic structure must happen in the following order:

Actors perform skillfully & we believe & accept their characters w/in  the context of the story

What are the primary properties of movie lighting?

 lists the details of each shot & can thus be followed by the director& actors during filming?

25.  Movies became extraordinarily popular with audiences only after they began to ________.

What is a device attached to the operator?

Narrative is a cinematic structure that arranges events in a ____________ sequence.

  A ________ is a movie devoted to conveying fictional or fictionalized stories.

The best-known lighting convention in feature filmmaking is the _________________.

What does a high-angle shot imply about the observer?

  What is one uninterrupted run of the camera called?

The star system dominated the movie industry until the studio system did what?

By what other title is the cinematographer also known?

Cinematographer determines what will appear within the borders of the image during a shot?

What is the tracking movement of a camera mounted on wheeled support,known as a dolly, called?

What do genre labels allow us to predict with reasonable certainty?

What do we call the process of choosing and hiring actors for a movie?

The elapsed time of those events within the story that the film explicatively presents?

 Who was the first major director to exploit the power of simple camera movement?

A shot-by-shot breakdown that combines sketches or photographs of how each shot should look 

What are the four basic approaches to documentary films?

What do you call the relationship between the frames two dimensions? 

The extreme long shot, or ELS, is often used for what type of shot?