INTRO TO FILM UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
The systems, methods and conventions used to
communicate to movie audiences is called:
a. Verisimilitude
b. Formalism
c. Narrative
d. Cinematic language
Cinematic language
What is the essential difference between movies and
other 2-dimensional forms of art?
a. Movies don't have one author
b. Movies are a spatial and temporal art form
c. Movies started in black & white
d. Movies are not created by hand
Movies are a spatial and temporal art form
Implicit meanings in movies are:
a. Available on the surface
b. Probably unintended by the filmmaker
c. Lie below the surface of the movie's story and
presentation
d. What is meant when asking for a plot summary
Lie below the surface of the movie's story and
presentation
Identifying the tools and techniques within a scene,
sequence or movie is the first step of:
a. Film analysis
b. Continuity editing
c. Screenplay writing
d. Cinematic narrative
Film analysis
Which of the following is a formal analysis option for
Juno?
a. The movie's treatment of class
b. The movie's depiction of women and childbirth
c. The implications of the t-shirt messages displayed by the
, film's characters
d. The motif of the empty chair that frames the story
The motif of the empty chair that frames the story
Which is the best description of the difference between
content and form?
a. Content is the subject of an artwork, and form is the means
through which that subject is expressed
b. Content is the meaning of the movie, and form is what
happens in the story
c. Content refers to a movie's look, and form refers to its
genre
d. Content refers to individual scenes or shots, and form refers
to the movie as a whole
Content is the subject of an artwork, and form is the means
through which that subject is expressed
The manipulation of time and space is a function of
what filmic element?
a. Editing
b. Critical flicker fusion
c. Lighting
d. Mediation
Editing
In the arts, the process by which a formal element
transfers something from one place to another is called:
a. Element transfer
b. Mediation
c. Structuralization
d. Select transfer
Mediation
The process by which the human brain retains an image
for a fraction of a second longer than the eye records it
is called:
a. Apparent motion
b. The phi phenomenon
c. Persistence of vision
d. Spatialization of time
Persistence of vision
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
The systems, methods and conventions used to
communicate to movie audiences is called:
a. Verisimilitude
b. Formalism
c. Narrative
d. Cinematic language
Cinematic language
What is the essential difference between movies and
other 2-dimensional forms of art?
a. Movies don't have one author
b. Movies are a spatial and temporal art form
c. Movies started in black & white
d. Movies are not created by hand
Movies are a spatial and temporal art form
Implicit meanings in movies are:
a. Available on the surface
b. Probably unintended by the filmmaker
c. Lie below the surface of the movie's story and
presentation
d. What is meant when asking for a plot summary
Lie below the surface of the movie's story and
presentation
Identifying the tools and techniques within a scene,
sequence or movie is the first step of:
a. Film analysis
b. Continuity editing
c. Screenplay writing
d. Cinematic narrative
Film analysis
Which of the following is a formal analysis option for
Juno?
a. The movie's treatment of class
b. The movie's depiction of women and childbirth
c. The implications of the t-shirt messages displayed by the
, film's characters
d. The motif of the empty chair that frames the story
The motif of the empty chair that frames the story
Which is the best description of the difference between
content and form?
a. Content is the subject of an artwork, and form is the means
through which that subject is expressed
b. Content is the meaning of the movie, and form is what
happens in the story
c. Content refers to a movie's look, and form refers to its
genre
d. Content refers to individual scenes or shots, and form refers
to the movie as a whole
Content is the subject of an artwork, and form is the means
through which that subject is expressed
The manipulation of time and space is a function of
what filmic element?
a. Editing
b. Critical flicker fusion
c. Lighting
d. Mediation
Editing
In the arts, the process by which a formal element
transfers something from one place to another is called:
a. Element transfer
b. Mediation
c. Structuralization
d. Select transfer
Mediation
The process by which the human brain retains an image
for a fraction of a second longer than the eye records it
is called:
a. Apparent motion
b. The phi phenomenon
c. Persistence of vision
d. Spatialization of time
Persistence of vision
