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Film 201 Chapter 6- Cinematography
Film 201 Chapter 6- Cinematography
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This chapter discusses cinematography
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What does the camera operator do?
Builds cameras
Does the actual shooting
Take videos of their friends for facebook
Holds the camera still
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What is an extreme long shot?
No emphasis in the shot
Blurry, not in cocus
visual background information, a wide shot& actor @ distance
Super duper close to someones face
3
What term is used when adding colour digitally to film?
Painting over film
Digital color additive
Colour grading
Colour adding
4
Which of these is the director of photography not responsible for?
Deciding the location of props and camera shots
Editing the film
writing the script and casting talent
Designing and creating the sets and costumes
5
What is a pan shot?
A shot of a frying pan
A larger more panoramic shot
Horizontal movement of the camera
Vertical movement of the camera
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What is a dolly shot?
Creating a moving tracking shot
Used to zoom out
When Dolly Parton signs on screen
Used to zoom in
7
What does speed refer to in film stock?
How sensitive it is to light
How fast a cheetah runs
How fast it is recorded
How fast the film movies
8
What is implied proximity to the camera?
How far someone is from our field of view
Someones distance to the camera and our emotional connection
How close the camera is to the subject in question
How close someone's to the camera & our emotional connection
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What is not involved in the 3 point system?
Key light
Fill light
Back light
Front light
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What is an eye-level shot?
Where the camera man rests his eye while filming
Shot made from the eye level of the observer
When something is exactly level with your eye
Implies the attitude towards that being filmed as neutral
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What is a close up?
Seeing ameba
Close attention on one subject including a person or object
Seeing up someone's nose
Seeing only one character and a background subject
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Which of the following is not a term used in shooting a movie
Setup
Stock
Take
Shot
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What is an example of implied proximity? (think the graduate)
A hot guy smiling at you across the bar
A horse in a field
A horse kicking your cousin
A beautiful girl offering to buy you a drink beside you
14
Which of the fooling is not a purpose of lighting
Illuminating people and things
creating highlights and shadows
Define shapes and texture
Brightening and contrast actors
15
What deep-scene space? (Citizen Kane)
Placing significant subjects in all 3 planes, creating depth
The illusion of depth by intentional placement of subjects
Kane on his death bed
Susan infant of the fireplace
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What are black and white movies?
Movies with very dull colours
Movies that lack colour
Movies that range in between black and white colour
Movies with bright colours
17
What are two types of artificial lights?
Floodlights and focusable spotlights
Focusable spotlights and Contrast spotlights
Floodlights and fusable spotlights
Focusable spotlights and fluidlights
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What is a crane shot?
A shot that flies like a bird
A shot made from an elevated arm often called a crane
A picture of a yellow crane.
An elevated arm mounted on a crane that is on a vehicle
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How many camera assistants are there and what do they do?
4, oversee things to do with the shot & use the slate
2, they oversees things to do with the shot & use the slate
2, get the camera operator coffee and donuts
3, oversee things to do with the shot and use the slate
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What is framing?
What the makeup of the image looks like
What appears within the boarders of the image within a shot
What the image the scene is building
What holds up your house
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What is depth in a shot?
The illusion of making 2 dimensional objects 3 dimensional
How far you have to shoot to kill a deer in a field
How far you have to swim to the bottom of the pool
Composition within a scene
22
What is a medium shot
Character from the chest up
Only the characters face
Character from the waist up
Character from the knees up
23
The cinematography is responsible for properties, framing, speed/length and special effects
False
True
24
What does direction mean when discussing lighting
Where the light goes to get to work
Where the light comes from
North, south, east, west
How the light hits the character
25
What is a dutch angle?
A titled camera from its horizontal or vertical position
When the camera is above the subject
Gives the appearance that the world is out of balance
When a dutch guy shakes your hand
26
What is the depth of field?
Distance from the camera to the back of the lens
How deep a farmers field is
How far to kick a field goal
The planes or areas of the image in focus
27
What is an extreme close up?
Very small detail of a subject
Seeing only a subjects eye ball
A very small detail of a very small ameba
Very large detail show in a small way
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What is a tilt shot?
When the camera tilts to follow movement
Movement with the dynamic possibilities of creating meaning
When the camera turns sideways
Vertical movement of the camera
29
What is a reflector board used for?
It comes in a U-Shape holder
Is used to emphasize contrast between the actors & shadows
It keeps out the riffraff
It relies on bulbs to produce illumination
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What is a medium long shot?
Seeing a character from knees up and some background
Seeing character from knees up and no background
Seeing all of the character and no background
Seeing a man riding and elephant
31
Which of the following is not apart of cinematography
trivia meaning film
graphic meaning writing
Kinesis meaning movement
photo meaning light
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What is scale?
What you play on the saxophone
The placement of something in relation to other thing
The size of something compared to its original size
How you weigh yourself
33
What is a medium close up?
Seeing character from middle of chest to top of hat
Seeing centre of ameba
Seeing character from approximately the chest to top of head
Seeing characters torso and head
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What is the aspect ratio?
How much of what is on screen we actually see
How small/large the scene is compared to the screen size
The ratio of an images width and height
The relationship between height, width and depth
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What is Cinematography
The movement within a scene or a shot
Process of capturing moving images on film/digital storage
The way a film is cut together
The décor and setting of the scene
36
What term is used to describe the first introduction of colour
The additive colour system
The subtractive colour system
New colour system
The black-white colour shift
37
What is film stock and who is responsible for choosing it?
Editor; where they get the film from
Editor; recording form for the film
Cinematographer; it is where they store the film
Cinematographer; recording form for the film
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What is the subtractive colour system?
Doing math with colour
The act of taking the clot out of films
The process of 3 colour additive
Painting with black and white
39
Which of the following is not a speed and length a shot?
Short take
Slow motion
Fast motion
Long take
40
Which is not a source of light
Artificial
Constructed
Natural
41
Can you have a frame within a frame
True
False
42
What are special effects?
Avatar make up
A german shepherd running in a field
An explosion that kills a guy
Illusion that fools the eye & brain into perceiving motion
43
What is the focal length of a lens?
The distance from the optical centre to the focal point
How long the lease an focus
The distance of the lens itself
The distance from something the lens is
44
In terms of lighting, what does quality mean?
Whether the light is hard or soft
It is contrast technique
Nothing it isn't important
How well the light is noticed
45
Is there such thing as a hand held camera used is Hollywood productions?
False
True
46
What is a low angle shot?
When the camera is above the shot but below the action
When you miss the putting green because of a sand trap
When the camera is below the action
When the camera is bellow the actions, signifying weakness
47
Which of the following is not real?
Deep-focal-length
Short-focal-lengt
Middle-focal-length
Long-Focal-Length
48
What is a high angle shot?
The camera is above the action
When you get really high and film stuff
Implies the observer is superior to the action being shot
When the camera is below what is being shot
49
What is a long shot?
Seeing all of the character and some background
Seeing only the character and no background
Seeing up the characters nose
Seeing mostly the characters and some background
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What is deep-focus cinematography?
Mr. Thompson in the telephone booth while questioning Susan
Jed drunk sleeping in the office of the newspaper
Keeps all 3 planes in sharp focus
Where Harry met Sally
