INTRO TO FILM UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
Films are constructed from individual _____--an unbroken span of action captured by an
uninterrupted run of a motion picture camera—that allow visual elements to rearrange
themselves and the viewer's perspective itself to shift within any composition.
a . frames
B. images
C. shots
D. cuts
c. shots
____ gives movies the power to choose what the viewer sees and how the viewer sees it at
any given moment.
a.Narrating
B. editing
c. Directing
d. Acting
b. Editing
The ___ is often used to indicate a passage of time between scenes.
a. Continuity edit
b. Cutting on action
c. Low-angle shot
d. fade-out/fade-in
d. fade-out/fade-in
An example of ____ from Juno is the way the film repeatedly reinforces mainstream, even
conservative, societal values toward pregnancy, family, and marriage.
a. Implicit meaning
b. Explicit meaning
c. Cultural invisibility
d. Cinematic invisibility
C. Cultural Invisibility
Early filmmaking pioneers created a film _____ (or Cinematic Language) that draws upon
the way we automatically interpret visual information in our real lives, thus allowing
audiences to absorb movie meaning intuitively--and instantly.
a. Vocabulary
b. Grammar
c. Syntax
d. Dictionary
, b. Grammar
_____ dissects the complex synthesis of cinematography, sound, composition, design,
movement, performance, and editing orchestrated by creative cinematic artists.
a. Formal analysis
b. Formal criticism
c. Film analysis
d. Film criticism
a. formal analysis
The film Juno uses the recurring _____ of the empty chair to convey explicit and implicit
meaning.
a. motif
b. Simile
c. metaphor
d. Narrative
a. Motif
An analysis from a _____ perspective of Juno could concentrate on, among other elements,
the movie's depiction of women and childbirth, not to mention Juno's father, the father of
her baby, and the prospective adoptive father.
a. Linguistic
b. feminist
c. political
d. Cultural
b. feminist
In his influential book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, mythologist Joseph Campbell
called the fundamental story structure that the Star Wars films draw from the "_____-
myth" or "hero's journey."
a. Quest
b. Cultural
c. mono
d. Herculean
c. mono
As a high-tech version of an ancient and universal weapon, the _____ epitomizes the
amalgam of diverse cultural and historical references that creator George Lucas blended to
form the eclectic Star Wars universe.
a. lightsaber
b. Death Star
c. blaster
d. Star Destroyer
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
Films are constructed from individual _____--an unbroken span of action captured by an
uninterrupted run of a motion picture camera—that allow visual elements to rearrange
themselves and the viewer's perspective itself to shift within any composition.
a . frames
B. images
C. shots
D. cuts
c. shots
____ gives movies the power to choose what the viewer sees and how the viewer sees it at
any given moment.
a.Narrating
B. editing
c. Directing
d. Acting
b. Editing
The ___ is often used to indicate a passage of time between scenes.
a. Continuity edit
b. Cutting on action
c. Low-angle shot
d. fade-out/fade-in
d. fade-out/fade-in
An example of ____ from Juno is the way the film repeatedly reinforces mainstream, even
conservative, societal values toward pregnancy, family, and marriage.
a. Implicit meaning
b. Explicit meaning
c. Cultural invisibility
d. Cinematic invisibility
C. Cultural Invisibility
Early filmmaking pioneers created a film _____ (or Cinematic Language) that draws upon
the way we automatically interpret visual information in our real lives, thus allowing
audiences to absorb movie meaning intuitively--and instantly.
a. Vocabulary
b. Grammar
c. Syntax
d. Dictionary
, b. Grammar
_____ dissects the complex synthesis of cinematography, sound, composition, design,
movement, performance, and editing orchestrated by creative cinematic artists.
a. Formal analysis
b. Formal criticism
c. Film analysis
d. Film criticism
a. formal analysis
The film Juno uses the recurring _____ of the empty chair to convey explicit and implicit
meaning.
a. motif
b. Simile
c. metaphor
d. Narrative
a. Motif
An analysis from a _____ perspective of Juno could concentrate on, among other elements,
the movie's depiction of women and childbirth, not to mention Juno's father, the father of
her baby, and the prospective adoptive father.
a. Linguistic
b. feminist
c. political
d. Cultural
b. feminist
In his influential book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, mythologist Joseph Campbell
called the fundamental story structure that the Star Wars films draw from the "_____-
myth" or "hero's journey."
a. Quest
b. Cultural
c. mono
d. Herculean
c. mono
As a high-tech version of an ancient and universal weapon, the _____ epitomizes the
amalgam of diverse cultural and historical references that creator George Lucas blended to
form the eclectic Star Wars universe.
a. lightsaber
b. Death Star
c. blaster
d. Star Destroyer
