Filmmaking: History of Film, Terms, Genres & 12 Steps to Make a Film

Question 1

The process (step) of setting up shots, rehearsals and principal photography is?

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Production

Question 2

The way a camera shot is composed, like a "Long Shot", "Medium Shot" or "Close-Up"

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Framing

Question 3

The rating system debuted in 1968 with:

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G, PG, R, X

Question 4

Roundhay Garden Scene (1888) is

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a short silent film by French inventor Louis Le Prince, the oldest surviving film in existence

Question 5

The first academy award (Oscar) was awarded for the 1927 film:

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Wings

Question 6

They patented a combination of movie camera and projector:

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Louis and August Lumiere

Question 7

The immediate first prints for Director to see how the film came out after a day's shooting

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Dailies

Question 8

Some of the most important films from that late 60's - early 70's era were?

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Chinatown, Taxi Driver, The Godfather, Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Rosemary’s Baby, Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider (1969), A Clockwork Orange

Question 9

The 1969 Film "Midnight Cowboy" is famous for:

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being first x rated Academy Award winner for Best Picture

Question 10

In late 1960's these Directors united to express their personal vision getting greater control

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Francis Ford Coppola, Roman Polanski, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas

Question 11

The history of film began in:

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The last quarter of the 1800's

Question 12

Another one of the 12 steps to making a film is?

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Script writing and development, Movie distribution, Sales & Marketing

Question 13

Some film genres are?

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Drama, Romance, Suspense, Terror, Silent, Thriller, Musical, Comedy

Question 14

The process (step) of Editing and Sound mixing is included in?

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Post-Production

Question 15

The first film with spoken works with sound was?

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The Jazz Singer

Question 16

A sequential series of illustrations (cartoon strip) of events, as seen through the camera

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Storyboard

Question 17

What is the FIRST STEP in making a film?

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The idea, film concept and treatment

Question 18

The first record development in film, producing moving images on revolving drums and disks was

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1830's

Question 19

Films in the last part of the 19th century were:

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under a minute long

Question 20

The 1976 Film Jaws and 1977 Star Wars greatly contributed to the emergence of?

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the blockbuster

Question 21

What was the year that marked the beginning of sound in film?

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1927

Question 22

What are Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson credited with?

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Kinetoscope, a peep-show in which film is moved past a light

Question 23

Continuity is?

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Action moving through multiple locations without interuption, Degree a film is self-consistent without errors or jump cuts

Question 24

A small black board that displays identifying information for each shot in a movie is?

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Clapboard

Question 25

The first feature film is released in 1911

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D.W. Griffith's "Enoch Arden"

Question 26

VCR tapes and DVD's came to life in:

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Early 1980's - Late 1990's

Question 27

The emergence of the first motion pictures that can be considered as "films" was in the year:

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1900

Question 28

Structure of editing within a film (process of cutting up film and editing it into sequence)

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Montage

Question 29

What is a "staging" like a lengthy, un-cut, unedited sequences shot in real-time

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Mise-en-Scene

Question 30

One of the 12 steps to making a film is?

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Locations scouting, Storyboard your vision

Question 31

Used to obtain various camera angles and perspectives, panning, tilting) and Dolly shots

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Movement

Question 32

Pre-Production includes:

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Financing and Film funding, Breakdown script, Budget plan, Shooting schedule

Question 33

Film made on a paper base instead of glass, wound in a roll was invented by:

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The founder of the Eastman Kodak company, George Eastman

Question 34

The point of view chosen from which to shoot a subject, like Eye Level or Dutch Angle

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Angle

Question 35

MacCarthyism; the persecution-blacklist of artists by Senator MacCarthy and government happened

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end of 1940's to early 1950's

Question 36

The process of setting where camera goes, actors positions and how the lights will be arranged

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Blocking

Question 37

This film by Orson Welles is regarded by many as the best film ever made

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Citizen Kane

Filmmaking: History of Film, Terms, Genres & 12 Steps to Make a Film

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Filmmaking: History of Film, Terms, Genres & 12 Steps to Make a Film

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