FLME 2700 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
What are the aesthetics of cinema? - Answers - Mise-en-scene+editing+sound design
Aesthetics - Answers - study of sensory values; how we understand our perception of
the world
Mise en scene - Answers - elements of a movie scene put into position before film
actually begins
What is mise-en-scene French for? - Answers - "placed in scene" or "onstage"
Naturalistic mise en scene - Answers - appears realistic and recognizable to viewers;
not pointed out by characters
Theatrical mise en scene - Answers - denaturalized, exaggerated, transformed;
characters often interact with this
Cinemotography - Answers - manner in which mise en scene is recorded onto film
Within each shot a myriad of choices has been made. What are those choices? -
Answers - distance the camera is from the subject, angle which image is shot, focal
point within the image
Types of camera angle(5) - Answers - high, low, overhead or "god-angle", P.O.V,
canted or tilted or dutch
Camera distance(3) - Answers - close up or extreme close up, medium shot and
medium long shot, long shot or extreme long shot
Focal Points(3) - Answers - deep focus, shallow focus, aspect ratio and image width
Camera movements(4) - Answers - pan,tilt, zoom, tracking shot
Camera Obscura - Answers - dark place with a small pinhole in one wall, through which
light projects upside down onto the opposite wall
Louise Dagurre - Answers - captured the first quality photographs using silvered
copperplate
William Henry Fox Talbot - Answers - first to use paper prints (helped to reduce
exposure times to around 3 min)
ANSWERS
What are the aesthetics of cinema? - Answers - Mise-en-scene+editing+sound design
Aesthetics - Answers - study of sensory values; how we understand our perception of
the world
Mise en scene - Answers - elements of a movie scene put into position before film
actually begins
What is mise-en-scene French for? - Answers - "placed in scene" or "onstage"
Naturalistic mise en scene - Answers - appears realistic and recognizable to viewers;
not pointed out by characters
Theatrical mise en scene - Answers - denaturalized, exaggerated, transformed;
characters often interact with this
Cinemotography - Answers - manner in which mise en scene is recorded onto film
Within each shot a myriad of choices has been made. What are those choices? -
Answers - distance the camera is from the subject, angle which image is shot, focal
point within the image
Types of camera angle(5) - Answers - high, low, overhead or "god-angle", P.O.V,
canted or tilted or dutch
Camera distance(3) - Answers - close up or extreme close up, medium shot and
medium long shot, long shot or extreme long shot
Focal Points(3) - Answers - deep focus, shallow focus, aspect ratio and image width
Camera movements(4) - Answers - pan,tilt, zoom, tracking shot
Camera Obscura - Answers - dark place with a small pinhole in one wall, through which
light projects upside down onto the opposite wall
Louise Dagurre - Answers - captured the first quality photographs using silvered
copperplate
William Henry Fox Talbot - Answers - first to use paper prints (helped to reduce
exposure times to around 3 min)
